"Shared Auto" - The Definitive Hyderabadi Experience

The "Shared Auto" - Let's go for a ride
The Pilot in the front, two boys right beside
Ladies yell - "C'mon Mister, its time to go"
The Pilot nods "I know, I know"

The Rusty Meter - a showpiece on the left
Obscure songs with melody bereft
"Mr. Pilot, Will you stop it please!!"
My Stop arrives. Whew, I’m still in One Piece.

Two more arrive, racing for half a butt
A Traffic Policeman! - "Gotta take a shortcut"
A Cat and Mouse game for the Pilot of today
All savings gone, if the Cat has it's way

What more can I say about this automobile?
A revolution of sorts - Three Wheels and Steel
Middle of the Night, to home I must go
No problemo, I see a "Shared Auto"

A Hindu Marriage and Institution - Similar or Different?

Academic records dictate entry into a Higher Institution
Isn't it easy relating to the above situation?
Skills dictate the outcome of ones Academic records
Better the records - Better are the odds

Horoscope - An Astrological record
With blunders of Astronomical Proportion
Where's Common Sense, My Dear Lord?
A Future dictated by Planetary Motion
The very thought leads to instantaneous "Loose Motion"

Education - a fruit of Institutional Diversity
The Hindu Marriage - a byproduct of an ever confused Community
Here's the Irony - "Erudites" who went to an Institution
have juxtaposed a Nuptial using seeds of Utter Confusion

Orthodox Faiths and Blind Belief
Epithets of Confusion spread by the Brahmin Chief
Words like "Marriage" and "Institution"
eerily rhyme well with "Bondage" and "Exasperation"

The Job "Fair" - [After conducting interviews with my Company]

"A Corporate stunt" - Witnessed a Job Fair
What's so fair about this Fair?
Sights of Unemployment - a real life Nightmare
All in the name of Technology and Software

People Battling three nights of Travel
All for a Job!! - Not Something to marvel
A rejection offered - After trodding many a mile
A rejection accepted - Saw sadness hidden behind a smile

The Two Fifty Seventh in a Queue
finally tastes an employment new
"A success story - this one I will cherish"
"Fruits of hardwork, now I relish"

Judgemental Interviewers crib of Quality "so dry"
Reminding me of the "Caterpillar and the Butterfly"
blissfully ignorant about the Pounding heat
these are those on the other side of the seat

A Corporate stunt - but a boon to some
Few Happy faces with a better income
All in the name of Technology and Software
A Win following a Struggle, made the Fair seem fair