
Why do simple clouds
Seem so dull in London
But lov’ly in Darjeeling?

Why do simple clouds
Seem so dull in London
But lov’ly in Darjeeling?

Under the Banyan
Its many roots dangling:
A fine Indian tree

Constrain’d by steel
Steadily it moves forward:
This old Calcutta tram

Eyes searching for
A tasty snack dropped by chance;
The hungry pussy cat

Osama and Obama
On a bookstore shelf
Seen in India
Picture taken in a bookshop in Bangalore (Bengaluru)

Beneath this roof
Indian patriots conspir’d
To end an empire
The picture shows the roof of a house in London’s Highgate district where, between 1905 and 1910, Indian patriots (including Shyamji Krishnavarma, VD Savarkar, Madanlal Dhingra, and VVS Aiyar) plotted the downfall of the British Empire in India. You cand discover much meore about this fascinating, but relatively unknown episode in the history of India’s struggle for independence in the book “IDEAS, BOMBS, and BULLETS” by Adam Yamey.
The book is available here:
https://www.bookdepository.com/IDEAS-BOMBS-BULLETS-Adam-YAMEY/9780244203870
and at a special low price in India here:
https://pothi.com/pothi/book/adam-yamey-ideas-bombs-and-bullets
and on Kindle

A cloud of spray
A dirty automobile
Soon will be squeaky clean

There are times
When a bow-tie is de rigueur
But I hate wearing it
de rigueur, meaning ‘ required by etiquette or current fashion’, despite its many vowels is pronounced ‘de rig-err’

The observant eye
Spots the leaping brown fox
While walking in the park
This fox was seen next to the Serpentine lake in Kensington Gardens, London

Centuries unchang’d
Hide with toes upward curl’d
Albanian footwear