[1 Feb 2010 | 4 Comments | 697 views | Author: Shekhar ]
Ballad of God

In the Highs and rivers of this forbidden land
Poor men, scared children and too many broken hands
Guns and bombs and terror, takes so much toll
People wait for the devil to take away their soul
Kashmir, tied by its own hangman’s noose
Crumble through god’s own living abuse
Ram, Allah, Christ and the Jews
Have always caused so much dispute
Ohhhh God, where are you?
But also, Why are you?
Blowing bridges in Baghdad to fulfill a greed
We have agreed, we want more than what we need
No water, no jobs, in the garden of stone
Eyes filled with tears, …

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[11 Jan 2010 | No Comment | 306 views | Author: Shekhar ]

This one was our first original songs back in 97′. It was called “We are the rockers”:
You want some fu**ing rock
We wanna give you a lot
You want to get some in
We wanna get some out
But you seem to stand nowhere
And you gotta go there
Cause there is no-one here
That can make you go nuts
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
(Chorus)
We are rockers
With a bloody grawler
With a bloodless axemen
With a vandal basher
And the rest is badder
Well, that is all I remember. There was another verse - but its faded in my memories, just like my first …

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[10 Jan 2010 | No Comment | 356 views | Author: Shekhar ]
StaleFresh spot on last year. Now looking ahead to 2010

In January 2009 I wrote a piece on cricket, predicting the downfall of Australian cricket. Also, I predicted that it will be a close fight between India and South Africa to be the number one cricket team in the world by the end of the year. It gives me extreme pleasure to say that I was spot on. India is the number one team in the world, closely followed by South Africa at number two spot. The readers interested in the preview of year 2010 in test match cricket are at …

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[2 Jan 2010 | 7 Comments | 673 views | Author: Shekhar ]
The world goes around sharing the sunshine.

In a passing moment she said “The world goes around sharing the sunshine”. It struck me hard, like the noise of the metra train rolling on the tracks on the Wrigley and Chestnut intersection. Her voice had depth of space, still expanding, and her eyes glitter like a million shining stars, getting farther and farther away and shrugging red light. By the time I convinced my self that she was special, that she can bend time and space, that she can read mind, and that she can heal - she …

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[9 Aug 2009 | 5 Comments | 815 views | Author: Shekhar ]
The corporate mafia.. and the ducks!

The other day at work while eating lunch by myself and glancing outside the window into a man made lake with God made ducks, I was trying to figure out how am I going to get all this work planned and delivered on time. The delicious bites of monte cristo was making it very demanding to concentrate, and I decided to take a freaking break from all of it and just gaze outside and enjoy my lunch.
Within minutes, my wandering thoughts about ducks in the lake turned into excruciating realities …