Dear Balasaheb,
Namaskar! You will wonder who I am. Let me tell you. When I am introduced people automatically say “This is George Fernandes…… sorry I mean, George Menezes”. It is an indication of how nameless, I am. I am an ordinary Indian citizen, Goan by ancestry and Maharashtrian by domicile. (more…)
After the policemen
had stirred the sudden ashes
with their rifle butts,
peeled off their riot helmets
like tired ‘strippers’
at a lousy joint,
the town was quiet (more…)
WHAT more can I do? Except to pray that that the loved ones of the ‘brave ones’ find a special courage to go on living, just as the dead found the courage to die for a beautiful nation and an endless, messed-up cause? (more…)
If there is a Mumbai-walla who is in the news come rain or shine, Coke or Pepsi, it is George the dragon-slayer as he was once known.
Today, George Fernandes is not just a fallen Defence minister. (more…)
