# Waddling like a Duck

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- Published: 2015-07-14T18:58:22+00:00
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**Author:** S. A. Owais
 **Pages:** 40 **Year of Publication:** 2009 **Price:** 
HB Rs 100, FB Rs 80 **ISBN:** HB 978-81-8157-831-0 (9788181578310) FB 978-81-8157-
832-7 (9788181578327)

_**About the Author:**_
 In his life, S. A. Owais has strongly believed in the need
to be political. For him, “political” means, in his words, “any activity that affects
or seeks to affect the community, country or world.” He has been strongly influenced
by Gandhi, Russell and Einstein and their political philosophies. Owais strives 
to exert his political agency through his writings.

_**Teaser:**_

_The Kashmiri Madman_

When I died recently,
 The Hindus and Muslims of Kashmir Fought over my dead body
And God, desperate, changed it to fragrant roses. I remember it so vividly. It was
all a la Kabir.

They forgot my warts:
 That I was just a petty bureaucrat With my petty greed. (
And that, unlike Kabir, had no voice.)

They just remembered my virtues:
 That I was obsessed with Religion As simple love
for the fellow-being And aghast at Kashmir’s fate.

Even Geelani kept a rose!

Surely, fellow Kashmiris,
 My madness is of a small order?

_**Contents:**_
 The Fanatic / 9 The Kashmiri Madman / 10 Letter to Anwar / 11 Waddling
Like A Duck / 12 Bill Gates and Me / 13 Cogitations on the Meaningful Life / 14 
Mother / 15 I Will Create A New Kashmir / 16 “I Shall Be Shakyamuni” / 17 The Problem
with Buddhism / 18 The Weavers / 19 Homo Perambulatrous / 20 Einsteinian / 21 The
Language of the Powerful / 22 Splendid Autism / 23 Pantheism / 24 Old Adolescent/
25 Night and Fog / 26 Effete / 27 My Pandit Books / 28 PTSD Goodbye! / 29 Slow Dissolve/
30 The Dons / 31 Stubborn Ventilators / 32 Carnal Weapons / 33 Fever / 34 The Most
Charming Fundamentalist / 35 Reward / 36 Flight / 37 The Human Race / 38