Mirage

Just tell me it's there
The body in front of the wall clock...
Tell him sun-burnt soil is threaded by
The silk worm..
I see towards the soil and
Grain-mesmerised homo sapiens ...

Countrymen

The land of rising pain,

Oh Poem, Oh milkrice come back,

Come back to civilisation

Like those happy poets....

Can dew be the dawn

Can mothers' milk be the town...

SUMMER OF 43

In the vicinity of my hunger

Falling apart,breaking into pieces

The Moon

One insane termed it as 'Roti'

In the vicinity of my attire

Tearing apart,fading out fast

The Green

One lover coined it as 'veil'

Of the earth.

In the vicinity of my house
Moving apart,the parental spring
The bricks
One mason called it as 'plaster'

In the summer of 43
I was reborn to declare the
Impermanence of life...

ROOTS

There lies my root

Where sinks and crutches the town,

My sleep dwells on that bamboo bed

Where the sun weeps over the preface..

Come and torch these sullenly shabby mood

With extraordinary inferno

Let there be stampede over the land and time

Reach not the harvest but the cruelty of seed-burst

Bring Palki and cosmopolitanism

Search for the everlasting attire....

I want to go to my mother

Give me the ship of Sindbad

My sister wants to sing

Let her catch the blue like love

For my mother

Let her bring the ocean like peace

I need to extract water out of stony soul

Bestow on me all the hatred

As the nude newly wed

Oh dear oh dear I live in a

Valley of death...

ROOTS

There lies my root

Where sinks and crutches the town,

My sleep dwells on that bamboo bed

Where the sun weeps over the preface..

Come and torch these sullenly shabby mood

With extraordinary inferno

Let there be stampede over the land and time

Reach not the harvest but the cruelty of seed-burst

Bring Palki and cosmopolitanism

Search for the everlasting attire....

I want to go to my mother

Give me the ship of Sindbad

My sister wants to sing

Let her catch the blue like love

For my mother

Let her bring the ocean like peace

I need to extract water out of stony soul

Bestow on me all the hatred

As the nude newly wed

Oh dear oh dear I live in a

Valley of death...

Blue Berry

So close to hunger lay a serene potful of stale looks

So close to heart lay a renegade's empty notes..

I wallow in filth with command of spring-less green

Sand dunes to Abu Simbel march with guns..

All that stay back in dinner a falling fella

A designer dish at stake with obese nuns..

In the midst of Esna lock and hundreds ferry

Comes up a flurry of Blue berry.

POPULATION EXPLOSION

India's Population

India Likely to Surpass China in Population by 2030

By Matt Rosenberg, About.com Guide

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With 1,150,000,000 (1.15 billion) people, India is currently the world's second largest country. India crossed the one billion mark in the year 2000, one year after the world's populationcrossed the six billion threshold.

Demographers expect India's population to surpass the population of China, currently the most populous country in the world, by 2030. At that time, India is expected to have a population of more than 1.53 billion while China's population is forecast to be at its peak of 1.46 billion (and will begin to drop in subsequent years).

India is currently home to about 1.15 billion people, representing a full 17% of the earth’s population. When India gained independence from the United Kingdom sixty years ago, the country's population was a mere 350 million. Since 1947, the population of India has more than tripled.

In 1950, India's total fertility rate was approximately 6 (children per woman). Nonetheless, since 1952 India has worked to control its population growth. In 1983, the goal of the country’s National Health Policy was to have a replacement value total fertility rate of 2.1 by the year 2000. That did not occur.

In 2000, the country established a new National Population Policy to stem the growth of the country’s population. One of the primary goals of the policy was to reduce the total fertility rate to 2.1 by 2010. One of the steps along the path toward the goal in 2010 was a total fertility rate of 2.6 by 2002.

As the total fertility rate in India remains at the high number of 2.8, that goal was not achieved so it is highly unlikely that the total fertility rate will be 2.1 by 2010. Thus, India’s population will continue to grow at a rapid rate. The U.S. Census Bureau does predict a near-replacement total fertility rate of 2.2 to be achieved in India in the year 2050.

India's high population growth results in increasingly impoverished and sub-standard conditions for growing segments of the Indian population. As of 2007, India ranked 126th on the United Nations' Human Development Index, which takes into account social, health, and educational conditions in a country.

Population projections for India anticipate that the country's population will reach 1.5 to 1.8 billion by 2050. While only the Population Reference Bureau has published projections out to 2100, they expect India's population at the close of the twenty-first century to reach 1.853 to 2.181 billion. Thus, India is expected to become the first and only county on the planet that will ever reach a population of more than 2 billion (recall that China's population is likely to drop after reaching a peak of about 1.46 billion in 2030 and the U.S. isn't likely to see a billion).

Although India has created several impressive goals to reduce its population growth rates, the India and the rest of the world has a long way to go to achieve meaningful population controls in this country with a growth rate of 1.6%, representing a doubling time of under 44 years.