Saturday, June 9, 2007

My Gulmohar



Here's a haiku i wrote for my seniors. The class of 2007.
with love.

we played
all midsummer games,
soiled and bruised


on the floors

rolling with laughter
and dancing blue.


Life calls.

hush, shush.she mustn't know.
quick,hide.


everything turns yellow.
groping still. i seek.

I spy.

and you became stars

i looked in awe.

a proud kid.


i loved you guys
o archade.love you still.

like gulmohar.


kgp will miss you.

Friday, June 8, 2007

Just Like That !


"Fresh and juicy, what a beauty, Mango Frooti."


When I was a kid, Come summer, I used to drink frooti all the time.
For birthdays, Dad would buy us that large green packet full of Frooti
It brings a flood of memories back to me.
After we finished our Frooti, we would inflate the packet and jump
on it with all our little mights.

BLAST

Here’s a sample of what remained.


“Mango frooti,fresh and juicy” followed by a lip-smacking “Ah!”

Parle introduced the Tetrapak juice.
It was like an alien spacecraft back in 1985.
What makes a Frooti sail smoothly despite the shelf being stormed
by the giant name bottles?

Have a look at the Pennaach's commercial for this delicious drink.
This is what girls do when they're thirsty.
Get your own juice box!

All you know is wrong.
You have been lied to your entire life. There are no other Mango drinks.
Other liquids claiming to be Mango-like are lying.
They are apostates from the true way of Frooti.
A true Frooti lover wouldn’t trade it or compromise
with any other substitute.
Yeah right. No I don’t want Real, Slice, Maaza or Mango Sip instead.
Frooti is the uber-mango. Frooti is all.
There will be a reckoning. Look here. Observe genius.

A survey created by Frooti’s manufacturer found that
all tetrapak products were viewed by the public as children’s
products.To address a wider audience, the ’’Digen Verma’’ campaign
was started . Here take a look.


There's also the apna bhodu-apna hero "bindaas" commercial
aimed at the college crowd.

You see, 15 years later and I'm still going bonker bonks for it .
till the last drop.
You can watch my face go all eight directions when I indulge
in the mysteriously captivating flavour of this ambrosia.
A visit to the tech market means a Frooti from Bimla Sweets.

What comes to your mind when you see these-


BACK OFF SUCKER !!


BLASPHEMY !!!!


I relive my childhood when that chilly mango taste
rushes down the throat.

Here, some haiku I wrote while occupied:

Frooti.Mine.Silence
Ambrosia , bonne bouche.Indulge
when fire flies.

Flushed and pouting
Emerald velvet beckons
Nature is jealous

Blushing splash, tickles
your tongue, sticky, double O.
two mangoes entwined

Oii buy me
just one more, pray
I have sinned.

Conclusion: Buy Frooti, drink nothing but Frooti,
eat only things which compliment Frooti,
which is everything good and decent in this world.
Return to the Frooti. Frooti will always comfort you, forgive you.

You may call me insane. Prophets are never recognised.