# Holy Cow and Other Poems

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**Author:** S. Nihal Singh
 **Pages:** 71 **Price:** HB Rs 200, FB Rs 150 **Year
of Publication:** 2008 **ISBN:** HB 978-81-8157-797-9 (9788181577979) FB 978-81-
8157-798-6 (9788181577986)

_**About the Author:**_
 These are light-hearted poems that the writer had composed
to poke fun at Indian — mainly urban — foibles. They reflect in a measure how India’s
urban society lives and works, how it seeks and finds recreation and how some character
traits have become ingrained in its make-up.

_**Teaser:**_

_Prattlers_

Why do minders
 of displayed art prattle on and on and on?

They open the doors
 to talk to comrades, rendering air-conditioning non-existent.

Their voices echo in
 galleries that are poor cousins of splendid settings abroad.

What was
 so urgent or pressing to talk about?

Or were they just prattlers
 happiest when prattling in stentorian voices?

Is it the establishment
 that employs men who are uncomfortable with silence?

Or is it in the Indian psyche
 to shun silence and revel in noise?

I wondered when
 we would learn to appreciate art.

_**Contents:**_
 Cow: Holy cow

Men:
 Prattlers Past as Present Time Pass Vote for Legs Old Cure Love and Money 
The Barber of Delhi

Women:
 Women’s Lib A Lottery Kitty Party Redemption Excess Baggage No Legs

Netas:
 The Luncheon Propitiation Rites Pearls of Wisdom Same to Same Plastic Flowers
The Pen

Lifestyle:
 Friendly Noise Shakespeare’s India Raj Nostalgia King Scooter Date with
Zubin QED Strollers Clothes Line Lost in Transition Purple Prose Staple Country 
Their World

Outside World:
 A Contest Jakarta Card Magic Other World: Conspirators End of World:
Despair