Convictions

·        The nerves of my temple are once again taut.        Will the efforts lead to another naught? ·        Times like these create a plaintiff. Laws and policies urge me to riff. ·        Honesty once the best policy! Stays six feet under jealousy. ·        Anti-corruption movement via civil society. Some say it’s nothing but exaggerated anxiety. ·        Human development index or fuel statistics. No one there to seer or clear the politics. ·        Few ounces of petrol but beer to the brink. I do drive but I don’t drink.

  previously on unjudged Act 2 Scene 2.   The moon, stars and grey tattered water objects all seem to flatter him through the night, but his thoughts are wandering aimlessly. Thud-thud droplets echoing all the way into the hallway seems to harmonize with his vacillating heartbeats, the angel and devil sitting on each shoulder persuading him for something his heart desires but mind resists. The foyer gleaming with the moonlight is boxed between the two rooms one of which is like the darkest corner of his heart other has a small flickering candle on a corner shelf. Here he used to play with his friends; echoes of them frolicking and merrymaking still exist. Those were the olden days filled with innocent mischiefs. What happened, how-come he was caught in such tentacles? But now none of this matters all of this cannot be shoved under the carpet he’s sitting on.    The flashes of mob jeering at his naked torso being whipped, the scorching flares from ab...

I believe the seraphicness inside me is dead. Act 1 Scene 1.   (The stage-effects, crew are all in place) Enter the jury, the lawyers and spectators rise Judge 1: Bring in the culprit Enter culprit bearded, with a sluggish gait revering the ultimate guilt. The anguished but tranquillized being having lost all its nimbleness looks for refuge at the bar and finally sits adjacent to his attorney. Prosecutor: milord may I have the permission to call the culprit in the witness box. Judge 1: Permission granted. Culprit lurches towards the witness box. Prosecutor: milord the culprit here stands for committing the most severe crime, the crime of dishonoring and hurting another being. Defense attorney: objection milord the culprit (pun) never had the intention of doing this. Judge 1: objection overruled. Prosecutor: Thank you milord. Defense is making baseless objections. Milord the culprit knowing the fact that his actions would create problems for him as well as those connect...