Thursday, September 27, 2018

MATHEMATICS


A big shoutout to everyone including all math nerds and geeks... for the zenith and enigma that is mathematics...


One plus one equals two
Math calculations not always as simple for you
For some mathematics - a piece of cake, for others a riddle forever - a headache!
In essence, mathematics is like poetry
the more you comprehend the easier will it be

Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division
Form the basis for further calculation
Be it calculus, statistics, algebra & geometry
Or set theory, probability, mensuration & trigonometry
A cocktail of intellect and hardwork will success guarantee!

Mathematics is a science in essence,
A work of pure genius and yet common sense
If one is patient enough it gives the SOLUTION to PROBLEMs
rendering an easier life for one to marvel

Starting from zero it goes upto infinity
From Aryabhatta's invention to something beyond man's capacity

Euclid, Newton, Pythagoras, Turing, Fibonacci
Einstein, Ramanujan, Nash, Euler, Bernoulli
contributed manifold to mathematics and in turn humanity

So, mathematics might find all the answers hidden
Those already not known, to ease life's burden
Mathematics is the genesis, the concoction and the gist of life's truths laden...


Tuesday, September 11, 2018

GRANDY

A tribute to Grandpa...

GRANDY



'Shruti, Shruti' - your husky, frailing voice still echoes in my ears
As I picture your once radiant, now wrinkled face and with moist eyes;
I try to reach out to you but in vain.

Everything I wrote was once scrutinized by you
And here I strain myself to sew some sensible words into this poem (and life) 
But feel lost without you.

Imbibing the daily newspaper headlines was less boring
 while you were around enlightening me, talking (actually gasping by the end)
 like an encyclopedia.

There are no doors left to close to reduce the noise coming from the T.V.
as you have shut the door of your life and left us to dread an eerie silence-
And i imagine you whispering from above - 'Now what is to be done?',
just as you would time and again.

And yes you calculating your pension, taxes & recalculating & cross-checking & again &
then asking me to do it, joking - this is the only treasure I leave - & then again
why did you ever have to?

Teaching us A,B,C,Ds to ethics, taking care of dadi & overprotecting everyone,
stopping going out when you could to when -
there was no choice.

I miss it all - our banters (stories of your humble beginnings....) and bickerings
A quintessential disciplined life led on one's own terms with humility,
was of Grand(pa)y - may he rest in peace... 🙏

Gratitude

Whatever there is, is a gift. The present we must value - every present moment. But as humans we tend to forget it. Take everyth...