My Friend Is A Porn Star.

Last month when my friend Liva, who works for a foreign based porn company came down to India (wait. don't waste time Google'ing her name. She is known by a different screen name in the industry), we met at a friends party and dined together. There, I introduced her to few of my close male friends and they were all drooling behind her since then. 

The Life - Sentence

On a thin paper, is there a saga.  

Sentence I am, part of that tale,  

Starting in caps, period it ends,  

Scribbling across, all in my part.  

Standing  as  one, spaces  apart, 

Senseless at all, the letters I use.

Grouping it once,spacing it then, 

Deep in a mind, they play a role. 

Putting  across, the  tale  of a life,

Beauty of which,a moral it holds, 

Neither in ink, nor on the stroke, 

Is that I care,but choice of words. 

As thin a paper,a sentence it holds,
Brief in it's length,but conveys  it all.

On a thin paper,the sentence I am, 

Written with love,is part  of  this tale.

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A Ray Of Hope

Another amateur attempt at poetry. Looking forward for your feedback so that I can improve upon it. 

Romantic Hypnosis

It was one of those summer evening classes we attended at school, for additional tuition and better scores. Unlike the routine, my session got over early and I was waiting for my friends to start our evening cricket. The wait seemed to be very long. Secretly, through the window, I signaled my friends in the class that I would meet them at the regular place and walked towards the kindergarten block of the school.

Our school kindergarten block, being isolated from the main building is perhaps the most silent, less illuminated and less frequented area in the evening. The place had all the qualities for a bunch of high secondary boys to chose as their regular meeting place and so we did. It was almost our exclusive territory after class hours. In addition, I had another emotional attachment to that place. To lie down on the slides at kids play area there and dream endlessly looking at the beautiful sky was one of the favorite evening hobbies.

Signatures That Are Worth A Crore and More!

I’m waiting outside a public official's chamber to get a document countersigned. Those of you who had an experience will know the agony and distress I'm currently undergoing. 

In fact, it is not that bad as in the past. The officer who is about to sign my document is a responsible man and never keeps anything pending for the next day. That was a relief.

Let us not discus much on the struggles, delay and the hardships of getting things done from "some" officials who get their pay from our pockets. Instead, let me try to throw some light on that totally neglected aspect: The economic part. 

If you were with me today, you would see 172 people (yes, I counted) waiting outside this office with me since morning. All of them have taken a day off from work and are here for some valid reasons.

Now, I'm going to stretch a little bit of my rusted basic mathematical skills to derive at some critical values.

Assuming average income lost per person standing here (I know its actually much more)	=Rs 400/day
Total income lost by 172 people per day	= 400 x 172  = Rs. 68,800

There are 8 such offices here in this building.
Assuming all the offices have the same strength outside;

Total Income lost by waiting outside these 8 offices per day

= 68,800 x 8 = Rs 5,50,400

Assuming the office works 20 days of the month;

Total income lost per month

= 5,50,400 x 20  = Rs. 1,10,08,000

Yes! ONE CRORE TEN LAKH AND EIGHT THOUSAND RUPEES PER MONTH.

Is that signature you get on that piece of paper worth the money?

To give you a contrast, 2 years back, I got the same document work done by a public official of a different country. There, sitting in my office, it just took 5 minutes to apply on-line and upload a few documents. The certificate arrived the third day by post without a single day loss of pay and manpower.

May be its high time we upgrade.