Culturevulture is a single word nowPerthlings and other delightful people come to the fore, as a culture-vulture, Sonyl, has always enjoyed his stays in homes and flats across India, Dubai, New Zealand, Thailand, Australia and around fifty countries around the world. This book explores the living arrangements and aspect as well as love and lusts of travel and includes working, playing and just being.
HIT THE ROAD JACKRoute 66 Stars is the 66th book that is essentially a collection of poems, which takes us to the southern tip of India, all the way into Trivandrum for a friend’s wedding. It has the usual drama, jealousies and action associated with youth and its wild ways. It’s a wedding ceremony captured in the most minimalistic language of a travel addict and in absence of a camera, the word pictures do weave a magical tale that starts with Murli’s wedding and has the usual exotic food, forbidden love and travel.
Why it was not called Anand Society
When I asked the author that, he said that places like Wonder World, Lamour Library and Ambar Oscar were our bigger haunts as teenagers from Anand and Vishnu Baug.
Essentially a part of three book series of poems with working titles like Lamour Library and Sports Festival or Anand Bazaar, this is a book based on semi real incidences in what the poet calls “Glory Days” after Springsteen’s song.
The glory days are glory days of a bygone era and an era yet to come. This is where we grew, this is where we loved, we fought, we won, we lost. This is where we met Bintu, Jacintha, Kumar, Parag and we lost them to a kingdom beyond earth and we have them still in our hearts. We chased kites, we played Mendi coat, we evolved with fashions, films and Frankie. This is the story of Anand Society. These are our glory days.
This book of poems is an eclectic kaleidoscope of different experiences in the various journeys of life and has a pinch of Malaysia besides the usual suspects: India and New Zealand. Malaysia wasn’t yet a third home for the author and thus has a very exotic and a very special feel. Meanwhile the adventures in Indian jungles and Auckland continue: business as usual.
