I Express

   Today, in this huge, busiest government hospital,      In the retinal department, There were eyes covered with bandages, hopeless women in crushed sarees carrying around their appointment cards, clueless search for room numbers, the frustrated guards, women holding their crying infants in their laps hoping for them to be patient, kids snatching cellphones from parents to play games and and those occupied doctors! Cacophony, pain, despair. While in this room 155, where a patient was getting checked by this female doctor, an old man entered. There was a huge line of patients outside 155 but this man just entered. When I looked at him, I decided to pen him down.      Lean, hunched back, his white hair barely grew, he took the smallest steps..                                               That innocence in his eyes and then he smiled to the doctor, passing those documents he said "Ye lelijiye"  Oh you could sense his pain. How sweet those words sounded. But the

A female pedestrian to a man in car. "Which way for W-132?" "I am going that way. If you don't mind, I'll be happy to drop you." "No, no, no! Thank you," starts walking away. "I'm sorry. Please take the first left and another left from the T point." The lady nods. As the car leaves, it strikes her.  We are so used to eve teasing, harassment and the news of brutal, inhumane rapes, marital rapes; imposed inferiority, backstabbing by our own blood that it is impossible to trust any man at all.  That man seemed decent enough. But thanks to those men of our society, that we are pushed into mistreating the ones who would rather genuinely offer assistance! Not only that, the women of our country are so accustomed to assume that if a man and woman can sit together in one car, without any consented relationship, they she is character-less! PEACE. Dear dear silver lining, India proves your nonexistence. :)

He bowed down to an effigy who wore sari  and red paint on lips; And whistled at women who dressed the same. She prayed for her husband's promotion and son's progress; Her daughter kept on pleading to delay her teen marriage. He sat outside the temple shivering in the thinnest sheet one could imagine; A man in tuxedo passed him with a bundle of dollars and handed them to the saint whose gold could weigh almost half of him. Starving, she saw men entering the octagonal house empty handed and returning with hand-filled food; She went inside and post following the ritual was thrown out for a reason unknown to her. After receiving a pat from his boss and realizing that his job was his true principle, to celebrate he went out to smoke; A hungry child covered in rags, pulled his coat and asked for food, he handed him his half smoked cigarette  I asked an escort, what is religion to you? She laughed, "The one I had faith in pushed me into this profession, you exp