Farrukh Dhondy

Mar 31, 2010
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Farrukh Dhondy

The moralistic inferno

“Virtue the field;
Temptation the seed;
Evil the growth;
Damnation/Joy the harvest —
Er… depending on your point of view”
From Bachchoonama Book VI

A knotty affair on V-Day

This Valentine’s Day is a special one for city-based designer Sakshee Pradhan, daughter of politician and MP Ashok Kumar Pradhan, who will be marrying her long time sweetheart Abhishek Nadkarni, a com

Right to offend

The Vatican forbade books and Hitler burnt them. I am, in this age of electronic literature, firmly for Hitler’s approach, especially towards books I have written — with the proviso that the burners buy 20,000 copies to make a good conflagration. Should they read them first? I don’t care. Such people are unlikely to be enlightened by deathless prose. Burn, baby, burn!

The trials of a journey

“Blessed are the meek
The one’s whom God will save!
O turn the other cheek
— I love your aftershave...”
From The Book of Gadarene
by Bachchoo

Immature Republic

“The effect has left me no time
To wonder about the cause.”
From Bachchoo Benighted

Britain’s meaty tale

“Mixed metaphors
Muddled meanings
Broken promises
Broken hearts...”
From Wall Writings (Ed. by Bachchoo)

Tryst with metaphors

“He spent a lot of time
Interpreting silences —
Before he went deaf”
From The Degradations of Bachchoo

We are all in it together

“Lovers lost in the forest of Arden
The leaky watering can
at the end of the garden
From whom and for what shall
I be granted a pardon?”
From The Jig-Jig Saw by Bachchoo

A long, royal ride

“Place no faith in miracles —
Against all evidence
Faith is the miracle!”

From The Scientific Proverbs
of Bachchoo

Have gun, will kill

“Oh come with old Bachchoo
And leave the rest
The Captains and the Kings
With their promises, lest
They take you for a ride
And leave you in life’s byways,
Alone, unsatisfied.”
From The Bhajans of Bhogapur by Bachchoo

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