BEYOND BORDERS MAY 2017

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CONTENTS
Patron Council
J Rajmohan Pillai
Tim Enyon
Ingird Sciberas
Jenny Wang
Barbara Vadiveloo
Chief Editor & Publisher
Sujil Chandra Bose
Editorial Board
Rajshekher Garikapati
Kris Iyer
Laxmi Menon
Anil George
Ken Brian
Vigil Bose
Sub Editor
Pallavi Manoj
Photography
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ARTICLES
Celebrate Nature
Dr. J Rajmohan Pillai
Letter from Nature
Pallavi Manoj
Crossing Borders
Anita Dorairaj
Healing Touch
Dr. Rajshekhar Garikapati
Lui
Niya Benny
Celebrate Nature
Pravadha Menon
Oh! Mother Earth! Hark!
Deepa Ram
Is it in your nature to love?
Kris Iyer
Our Story
Manoj Nair
Nature
Vani Vishwanathan
Ola Summer
Shalini Menezes
Back where I belong
Sujil Chandra Bose
Paintings
Nisar Ibrahim
Sindhu Rajiv
Photographs
Shezeen Anwer
Mil FI Kanheeram Pokkil
Nirmal Sandhu
Sujil Chandra Bose
MAY | 2017
BEYOND
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A CCCI FAMILY INITIATIVE

CELEBRATE
NATURE
Photograph by
Mil FI Kanheeram Pokkil, Dubai

E D I T O R ' S N O T E
"I felt my lungs inflate with
the onrush of scenery—air,
mountains, trees, people. I
thought, 'This is what it is to
be happy.'"
Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
As a child growing up in a quiet
hamlet, I was more in tune with
the harmony of nature than
human beings. One, they
responded never reacted; two,
they provided me with a certain
cover, a shade of security while
elders were busy trying to
sensitize me with all kinds of
Don'ts and No's. For me, the
great number of trees, the
beautiful flowers and every
living thing on them provided
my first imaginative platform as
a creative mind.
The romance of the rains, the
talking clouds, the inspiring
backwaters, the poetic
mountains and above all, the
harmonious music that nature
plays out every day in many
ways influence us albeit we
seldom realize. A lazy walk
through the woods, or a quiet
evening at the beach or even a
stroll through a busy street will
fetch us myriad expressions of
nature providing us with the
right backdrop like a percussion
to a symphony, or a lute in the
lead.
We need the resplendence of
nature around us more than the
monstrous luxury that we seek
each day. We need it more than
it needs us.
ISSUE 07 | MAY 2017
BEYOND
BORDERS
Each plant saved is a breath
saved and whether in a high rise
or a street corner, let us join
hands to create a living volume
of green around us, to give us
the luxury of safety.
Sujil Chandra Bose.

F E A T U R E | C E L E B R A T E N A T U R E
CELEBRATE
NATURE
D R . J R A J M O H A N P I L L A I
It is this :
The Sacred Balance. Nature, Beings & Celebrations
The fact is spirituality can be found in Nature.
For Dravidian people "the trees, the birds, the fish, the water, the wind are all parts of the
their identity." Their land, and everything on it, means so much to them that they would be
willing to sacrifice their lives and lively hood to protect it.
As they understood The Sacred Balance ..
Man by himself cannot create even a blade of grass. We will be guilty of gross ingratitude if
we do not understand the role of Nature.
Like a plant requires water air sun to grow Man is dependent on Nature for his existence.
The truth is that "everything comes from the same; everything originates from the depths
of the Earth and Space. And our spirituality is our understanding of Nature .
And our enjoyment is celebrating that Awareness.
The people and the earth are all made of the same things and therefore we both need the
same elements to survive: earth, air, fire and water.
You are not separated from Nature, only your thinking makes it so.
Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family and Nature.
Nature will always help if you do your duty correct.
It has a plan.
Hard to understand.
Only able in full Awareness.
So the aim is to Be In tune with Nature
Dr. Rajmohan Pillai is a multi-faceted personality. He is the Chairman of the US$3.1 Billion conglomerate, Beta
Group. A former Malaysian open Veteran's Champion in Lawn Tennis, He is also a philanthropist and
spiritualist besides being the author of 2 best sellers.
N O M A D I C | 2 4

CCCI TAKES OVER
BEYOND BORDERS ANNOUNCEMENT
Cosmopolitan Chamber of
Commerce (CCCI) is a global network
of Businesses and Businessmen,
promoting ethical and Fair practices in
Businesses and public life. Being set
up simultaneously in over 20
countries, CCCI intends to create a
new stream of thought through it
members. A thought of togetherness
built on Overall development of the
members through a range of
programs that aim to enhance their
skills set, social skills and also
encouraging the family and fraternity
to come together in a sphere of art,
literature and social development.
BEYOND BORDERS as a BIGG PUSH
initiative has officially become part of
the CCCI Family Initiative. BB through
this merger would become the
mouthpiece of CCCI while being
accessible to a larger community.
The READERS CLUBS INTERNATIONAL, ACTIVUS
KREACTIVITY as well as B/FRESH Green initiative
will also henceforth be part of the CCCI Family,
thereby increasing its bandwidth across the world.
With these changes, the BEYOND BORDERS Patron
Council also stands changed while the Editorial
Team remains the same until further notice. The
World Council of CCCI will officially be the Patron
Council of Beyond Borders with Dr. J Rajmohan Pillai
as its Chairman. We are grateful to Mr. Ralph
Tabberer, Mr. Mushthafa Zafeer and Mr. Ranjit
Kumar for their support to Beyond Borders and we
wish to place on record, our sincere appreciation for
their services.
B/FRESH, CCCI's Green initiative will focus on
campaigning for Urban Sustainability, Terrace
Farming, Organic Products etc that shall be the
chant of the future.
BIGG PUSH will release its ownership of these
programs with immediate effect and will continue as
a Training & Consultancy outfit for Technology

CELEBRATE NATURE
B/FRESH

Painting by Sindhu Rajeev
Celebration of Nature

L I T E R A T U R E | T H O U G H T S
LETTER FROM NATURE
P A L L A V I M A N O J , M U M B A I
Dear Humans,
I do not know in how many other ways I must beg for your attention. You blame your off springs for
not paid heed. Have you stopped to think of yourself? You put crimes against humanity at an alter as
it should be, but what about crimes against me? Am I not just as robbed off my chastity, left for the
dead and vandalized?
Me, who you live and survive in. Or have you already figured a way to live beyond me?
Is that why you’ve become as dead towards me as the machines you’ve created?
I cry my oceans out, throw down my anger in heat and open my heart out in snowy despair and yet
just a handful of you care.
You are more involved in pointing fingers at one another, you’ve always been good at these games-
The blame game.
Do not take me for granted!
I am forgiving, but I don’t forget. Ever.
Your books tell you stories of entire civilizations wiped out, recycled and reborn. It is not me who
needs you, you are irrevocably dependent on me for your living. It is I who taught you how to live the
way you live. I bore you fruits when hungry and provided you ways of shelter when cold. I gave my all,
thinking you would take care of me like I of you. It is one thing to give, another to take, and yet
another to take that for granted.
Let me tell you now that you are in grave danger. The catastrophes you’ve faced are mere glimpses of
what’s yet to come. Something your green paper of value will never be able to fix.
Yet, I give you chances over chances because you are children born out of me, of blood and bone, so
fragile and naïve, but brazen in the beliefs you’ve created for yourself. Some of you are thinking of
waging a war against me, I can’t help but laugh. You live today because I’ve been nurturing you,
supporting you, as a mother to her children. A mother who brushes away mistakes of her miscreant
infant. A mother blinded by love for the thing that she created.
But you have gone beyond and above to hurt me for your selfish needs, without giving a second
thought for the generations to come.
So, I remind you once again. This time it’s a warning. I won’t be so kind the next.
It is only an apocalypse that your mind can dream of, I’d rather not speak of what I am yet to unleash.
Yours truly
Mother Nature

THOUGHTS
CROSSING
BORDERS
ANITA DORAIRAJ
Crossing borders is like crossing our ego unconsciously to open our
hearts to accept and respect other cultures. While crossing borders, it
is easy to develop a positive or negative attitude. We can either miss
our old usual ways of living and feel sad or be excited to learn and
experience new culture. I prefer the latter!
Having lived in 3 different Indian states, my childhood experiences
have taught me to have an open mind in accepting various cultures and
being exposed to the different types of people made me more flexible
and open minded. As an adult having travelled few countries and
across The States reinstated the same belief about people. Their
accent, food culture, clothing, values in life, cost of living, common
man’s education and most importantly their behaviour towards guests
in itself showed me a glimpse of their nature. I must say, we are all the
same. We are just plain humans with goodness, sorrow, honesty,
selfish and much more of typical human nature. We are all alike; YEAH!
Yearning for Empathy, Appreciation and Happiness.
It’s funny and intrusive when people ask which city you are from in
your state, which state you are when you are out of state, which
country when you are out of the country. And even in USA or elsewhere
outside India, if there are few Indians, they unite and accept each other
heartily to share their love for their nation; but as Indians increase in
number the questions vary and the divisions increase as South/North
Indians, Gujarathis/Marathis or Tamilian/ Malayali, City wise division,
religion wise division and as number increases even caste wise
divisions are seen. It’s sad how we are yet to stop differentiating each
other though we share a lot of similarities and want to feel accepted.
This has taught me how society and rules came into being; learnt much
more than any book could teach me valuable lessons of life.
I’ve been asked many times as to which place I belong. I hesitate to say
only my birth place as my heart knows I’m more attached to many
other places I’ve spent some of the best days in my life and built my
relationships.
My first job, my first best friend, my first heart break, my biggest
achievement in life…all the places they happened are close to my heart.
As they say, home is where the heart is! It is so true for people like me
who relate a place to the important happenings in their life.
Its funny how I’m terrible at remembering what happened last week but
I can feel the emotions attached to my memories and places I have
been, as they give me a feeling of belonging to the place. Hence when
anyone asks me which place I am from, my memories tickle and I can
view a ripple effect of all the places I have ever visited. Keep travelling,
keep crossing borders; for with every border crossed, you have jumped
yet another hurdle in your life and opened the door to yet another
venue to store valuable memories forever.

LITERATURE | THOUGHTS
HEALING TOUCH
DR. RAJSHEKHAR GARIKAPATI, DUBAI
Nature is everything: all the physical universe that you can sense, as well as that you cannot - is within Nature.
Nothing in the material world can be outside of Nature. Mankind is Nature's highest evolution in terms of
intellect; wisdom, empathy, and spirit are altogether different propositions, of course. Yet, whatever Man thinks
and does, is within the folds of Nature.
Even Nature herself does not create anything new; Man is as much a manufactured product from the 5 elements
in Nature as is everything else within her fold. Which leads me to say that even a creation of Man is a mere
restructuring and redistribution of matter that already exists. It may be a new combination - a new
manifestation; yet the elements composing it already exist in Nature.
So, how does a Healer heal, then? If the elements that compose the healing instrument already exist, why does
not the body heal itself?
Is it that a specific element is required? Is it that it is required in a specific concentration? Or is it required in a
specific place for it to act? Or is it a specific combination, something peculiar to its structural organization that
imparts to the tool its healing properties?
This was the question asked us by a pharmacology professor, long ago during our initial days of study of
medicine.
He answered, after all of us failed to give a coherent one. "All these," he said, "and more." He spoke of the
Healing Touch that only a living creature can impart; it is a manifestation of the same Divine Spirit that underlies
all Universe; yet it has its highest power in the hands of Man. And among men (or women), it has its Highest
Power among Healers.
"A Physician," the professor pronounced, "who applies his medical knowledge with nothing but the benefit of his
patient in mind, knowing that not he, but the Great Spirit will do the healing - such a physician alone has the
Healing Touch!"
No amount of education can replace it, he continued; no degrees, no skills, not even experience can impart to a
Healer his healing touch. It comes not from his intellect, nor from the ambition to achieve fame by doing good.
Beyond all this is the Spirit, which is an embodiment of Pure Love. The Spirit which is made of Unconditional
Love.
Without it, there is no Healing Touch.
Long ago, our professor narrated, a King fell sick; he was tended to by many physicians of the day, but even a
visit to his favorite physician Sushruta's home went fruitless, because at that time, Sushruta lay in bed ailing. Not
until the great sage became well again was he able to apply his Healing Touch, after which his beloved King was
restored.
"This story tells us," said our professor, "that right through the ages, sages of medicine used Natural methods for
healing. The scientific method is merely an extension - and it has served to make it into a science - so that
medicine today is more effective, and definitely safer than it was in Sushruta's day."
"But science is yet to fathom the deepest secret which lies in the healing hands of an able physician - the Healing
Touch! It is Nature's greatest Mystery - yet it's greatest gift to suffering Mankind!" he concluded, and his lesson
rings in my ear to this day as we celebrate Nature in all her bounty.
*P.S. I use the term 'Man' as a mere convenience, and a contrivance, to keep the article brief; acknowledging the
contributions of Woman to the Healing Touch would have expanded it into volumes requiring separate publications; I
hope the Reader will forgive me this transgression!

LITERATURE | POETRY
LUI
NIYA BENNY
When I'm orbed by woes
When I see no one nearby
When I seek for an oyente
When I fail to secure a solace
There I espy a man
His hair reminds about
The sleet on the mounts
His foggy moustache
A string of white pearls
That could entice a Regina
When I look into his eyes
I see an ocean of love
Though sometimes, the waves scare me
Slowly I realize, it's the answer
For my orison to the heavenly father
Now I've a raison to exult
As I'm at the acme of felicity
When lui communes to me
My heart frisks out of gaiety
And so willing to play
The whole gammut of romance
Lui refrains me invariably
Owing to senility and guilt
Though for me, it's divine
And his eld allures me more

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NEW BEGINNINGS
THE CCCI UMBRELLA
BEYOND BORDERS officially becomes part of the CCCI
family as the official mouth piece of the International
Network of Businesses and Businessmen, an initiative
that would soon see spurting up across the globe.
Under the inspiring leadership of Dr. J Rajmohan Pillai,
Chairman of the CCCI World Council, CCCI is being
rolled out in over 29 countries effectively increasing the
band width of Beyond Borders and Readers Clubs in a
big boost of expansion.
CCCI intends to bring a set of classy entrepreneurs,
industrialists and professionals who believe in Fair
Business practices and in human oneness will be an
experience that would usher in a new chapter in the
history of International business. At a time when the
world faces the threat of a global divide, CCCI would
certainly provide the right momentum to all the efforts
to bring love, compassion and companionship across
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On behalf of the World Council of Cosmopolitan
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T H O U G H T S
CELEBRATE NATURE
P R A V A D H A M E N O N , D U B A I
To think of our earth as a tiny planet revolving around an insignificant sun, one of the billion
blazing suns in the universe is a thought that translates our insignificance and our planet's
insignificance. Looked from space, earth is a blue green dot, yet, unarguably, our home.
In fact, the only home we know.
Our home is a fragile balance of land and water, on which we, humans, exist along with
thousands of other living creatures, all supported by the earth's life-giving force: water. The
crystalline lakes and streams, the vast seas, the brilliant snow, the unending pearl strands of
rain and every bit of water trapped in the land and in the air.
As long as we have existed, for hundreds of thousands of years, we have looked at the world
around us in wide-eyed wonder, in unqualified admiration and heart-felt adoration. We have
looked at the snow-clad mountains in awe, at the sapphire blue oceans in wonder; we have
swayed with the emerald woods and amber twilight in rapture, we have basked in the daylight
and moon beams in dreamy languor, we have embraced bountiful breast of the earth with
melting soul. We have painted its landscape, its trees and its mountains; we have created epics
about its forces and its magic, we have written poems about its beauty and its tenderness, we
have mused over its largesse and its mystery. Our life beats to its unchanging rhythm: in
spring, our heart is filled with longing, in summer with hopeful vigor, in autumn, with the
meditation on the turning leaf's offering and in winter with the dreams of rebirth.
In our infancy, the moon is something to reach up to, in our childhood, the trees are our high
green perch, in our youth, under love's sorcery, we walk into the florid groves and starry nights
with our heart overflowing and, in the autumn of our lives, we muse over the grave shadows of
the purple mountains and the endless sea.
Is there anything in our life, an emotion, passion, desire, wonder or thought that is not imbued
with the color, the music and the grace of this earth? I find it hard, utterly impossible to
separate ourselves from this earth, this luminous home of ours. We are its offshoots, its
children, like the blades of grass and the blossoms that come with the spring. We bear the
fragrance of the earth, the warmth of its land and the life of its water. We are fated to be its
poets, its painters, its dancers, its singers and its sages. When we go, as all living things must,
we leave it to those who come behind us, our children and their children, hopefully as we
found it, pristine, unmaimed and unmarred like a pearl, ever virgin in its shell.
We leave it to the poets, the painters, the singers, the dancers and the sages of the years to
come. They will, like us, write their story, leave their marks behind, when they go. It is an
interminable continuity of life that persists as our inheritance bestowed on us by our planet.

We need to find God, and he cannot
be found in noise and restlessness.
God is the friend of silence. See how
nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows
in silence; see the stars, the moon
and the sun, how they move in
silence... We need silence to be able
to touch souls.
-Mother Teresa
Photograph by
Nirmal Sandhu

LITERATURE | POETRY
O! MOTHER EARTH! HARK!
BY DEEPA RAM, MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA
Seagulls cross the rubicon
As orbes of pain over your Equinox.
Audible they grow, treble of their knave notes,
Feigned concords in discord, that stain your rainbows grey..
The hail of fear, dubious, as turbid rains, storm inflated,
Pour retrograde off your nebulous circle
Arista of measureless muddy rivulets
Born of thousand native names
Tread your ceaseless volcanoes
And breed naked apes in your womb.
History spews anthology on your indigenous banks
Seasoned to handicraft another race, resurrected and
hallowed.
O! Mother!!
As the asquint vision, sin irrigated,
Bathe in the edifice of untrammelled tales,
Cry your saline floods into the saltless ocean of prophecy..
Sprawl your golden pulses of peace
For love to survive over space and time...

IS IT IN YOUR
PHILOSOPHY
NATURE, TO LOVE?
By KRIS IYER, Dubai, UAE
"The earth laughs in flowers" said Ralph Waldo Emerson.
A poet knows how to see nature at its best. The spring flowers blooming, the colorful sunsets
and bright hopeful sunrises, the naughty drizzle & the pouring rain, the pure white snow the
sunshine after that and all that is in between. With love in the heart, everything looks more
beautiful and what more can be beautiful than nature.
The best of the features of a lover is best described when it is compared with what is in nature.
The crescent of the moon compared to the smiles, the eyes compared to butterflies that flutter
by, the cascading hair to a wild brook or a waterfall, the darkness of night in the eyes of the
beloved. It is the way we look at it, which makes the difference. The expression of love, in
comparison with nature, expresses the heartfelt feelings better.
The color of roses made all love poems more poetic when Love was compared to a red red rose
by Robert Burns. Shelly, Shakespeare, Keats and Yeats would have compared love to anything
and everything in nature. But still there is more in nature for the present day poets to scribe a
line or two.
Even scientists have a poetic eye for sure. Look deep into nature, and then you will understand
everything better said Albert Einstein. The expression differs from person to person, but nature
never seems to stop inspiring people with love in their hearts. Mother Teresa compared love to
a fruit. Love is a fruit, in season at all times and within the reach of every hand. Anyone may
gather it and no limit is set. (Mother Teresa, No Greater Love, 1997)
I remember a film I watched, in which a professor teaches his class about love poems and goes
on to tell the class that romance or love blooms with nature and not near a burning stove or a
dirty bin. The moods set by nature kindle love and romance in the hearts. The twilight and the
wind, the flowers and the spring, the waves lapping the shores and more in store.
But the use and abuse nature of humans has left nature disturbed and impoverished. Would
children of the next generation know a lark or a nightingale? Would they know there were birds
and butterflies in what was known as a garden or a forest? The question remains... would there
be a day when our future asks us "How does nature look like". We should have the love in our
heart and take them to the nature and show them the beauty in it. They would also with love in
the heart see the beauty in it one day or the other. If you still believe in love and see it in
nature, save it for the posterity so that they could also have a glimpse of the beauty we have
seen…
If it is not your nature… then I have nothing more to say.

B/FRESH

B/FRESH

OUR STORY
LIFE WITH A FOREIGN NATIONAL
By MANOJ NAIR, MALDIVES
It was not long back a friend of mine asked me why I decided to marry a person who is a
foreigner. Honestly speaking, I did not expect such a question from him. Or rather it was a
question I myself haven’t attempted to answer till then. I quickly went back along memory lane
to recollect what made me take the decision in the first place. This is what I told him.
‘I met my spouse first in the Maldives where she was working in the same school in which I had
taken up my very first assignment as an Economics teacher. Initially, we hardly spoke to each
other since there were more than a hundred and fifty teachers in the school in two work shifts.
More than that she was working in the afternoon school and me in the morning.”
My friend now seemed to be keen in knowing what made me choose a foreigner in the first
place. I told him, “Look pal, you strike a similar frequency with a person in life when you have
common likes, tastes and preferences. Not all of them need to match. What is important is
whether you can stand each other with all the differences that you have. These things are the
same irrespective of your nationality. Even today we have differences, but we also have the will
to resolve those differences in a civilized way”
For a person who had been very closely connected to the family and who had been brought up
in a closely knit family fabric, I must say it was no easy decision. The first thoughts that crossed
my mind was how my parents would take it and how my one and only sister would digest it. I
had always believed that if you really want to achieve something in life you must not think too
much about its repercussions. You might now be wondering how I did it. I just did it; as simple
as that. Of course, at this point it is needless to say there were a lot of stresses and strains in
my relationship with all family members, except my mother who always held the view that “it is
your life and you decide what gives you happiness”.
All that I can say with pride is that time is by all means the best healer. As we were both
working, life went on as best as it could. Once again I don’t want to claim that it was a smooth
sail. It never is, and surprisingly it has got nothing to do with where your spouse is from. What
matters most is your trust in each other and the rest will fall in place.
Things got a bit more colorful and adventurous as we got our “dream” and “desire” (our
daughter and son) and life became a busy game. In 2008 we had to take a tough decision to
relocate my wife and kids to India since my parents were not keeping well. My wife who is a
fully trained teacher is now keeping herself pre-occupied with Shaberries - a home based
design boutique in Trivandrum for ladies and kids. I m based in the Maldives working as a CEO
for a company in the Maldives and travel as frequently as I can to catch up with what I miss
every day.

PERSONAL
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OF MANOJ
ACCOUNT
WHO LIVES IN
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REPUBLIC OF
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MALDIVES,
A MALDIVIAN
TO
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THEIR
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STORY
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MANOJ
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SHADIA
&
MANOJ
WITH
SHADIA

B/FRESH
NATURE
V A N I V I S H W A N A T H A N , K O C H I
Beauty in abundance - Nature
Wealth in abundance - Nature
Knowledge in abundance - Nature
Resources in abundance - Nature
Energy in abundance - Nature
Patterns and Designs in abundance - Nature
Colors and shades in abundance - Nature
Life species in abundance - Nature
Air, water and light in abundance - Nature
We belong to our mother - Nature
We perish to join mother Nature forever.
N O M A D I C | 2 4

BACK WHERE I BELONG
S U J I L C H A N D R A B O S E
Blank walls, white skies, brown sand
Crawling beeline of engines
Evenings behind closed doors
Waiting for the weekend
Where rich windows beckon
Wallet becomes clothes and gadgets
A fined loud breath or a day more
Sounds of the slavery of the sands
One morning changes it all
The return begins with no commotion
None to flood tears of nothingness
Or hugs of a quick remembrance of
A drink shared or a grand borrowed
The run after the turbans say yes
Late yet there on the wings
That take us where we belong
A quick free wine and a few dreams later
Standing at the entrance of the passage
Where all I see is a sky dirty yet
Full of colors that beckon
Wheels come out of the battle as the
Road ahead becomes narrow
No fines, no deadlines and there is
No landlord or a stamp that says it all.
The air that wrestle my breath is not pure
But it is not fake either, smells of a bit of myself
The land has changed yet I know
I have not and will never ever again
This is where I was named and this is where
I would lay, with pride and without a sponsor
This is where I want to be, would be
Till time, the wings will fall away...
N O M A D I C | 2 4

OLA!! SUMMER
S H A L I N I M E N E Z E S
The sun, colossal beauty shines so bright
Spreading its warmth, at times heat and yes illuminating light
The summers here are slightly intense and sultry
So beware all, ensure sufficient intake of water supply
Schools are closed, much to the parents delight
Days are much longer and hotter than the cool nights
It’s time for ice creams, popsicles and yes cool treats
Be cautious about fatty foods or else welcome diet defeat
Sunscreens are a must especially when basking in the ultraviolet hues
Turn off all electric appliances when away for long duration – avoid misuse
Beachgoers watch for weather fluctuations before venturing to the blue waters
Caution and safety will make this season one filed with fun and laughter
Summer is here!! Summer is there to stay!! Says mother Nature
Summer is the essence of a radiant and colourful life - spirit radiator
Heat waves will be there to crown the day -it is time to go
Stay fit and healthy and all charged to enjoy and say Summer Ola!
N O M A D I C | 2 4

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