More about shadows

 Someone sent me this image, almost as if as a rejoinder to my post below:

https://hunterfiftyfour.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-we-know-shadows-pain.html

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This image had this message embedded:

When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.

Then I thought: what about sunrise?

No, the opposite is not true. Small men cast big shadows during sunrise too. 

Shadow is not a function of a man's real height. 

Rewarding traffic rule followers versus punishing honest traffic-fine payers

 

I got this leaflet as a Social Media forward:

Well, Bengaluru police is way forward. It is waiving 50% of traffic fines to folks charged with traffic violations but who have not paid their traffic fines as yet. The scheme is open till 12th of September 2025.

50% waiver

This means that while the Swedish police is rewarding folks who follow traffic rules, Bengaluru police is punishing folks who are 'honest' traffic fine payers.

Do we know the shadow's pain?

 

Is there a shadow of the shadow?

Can there be a moon eclipse?

When there is a new moon?

We know all the science reasons,

We know about crossing of ecliptic plane,

But do we know the shadow's pain?

Leave a sign, my love

 

Leave a sigh in the wind,

When I'm away from you.

Leave a sign, my love.

And, when we meet on the road,

Leave a heart torn asunder.

Leave a sign, my love.

Chrysalis over heart was half formed

 

The moon was only half full,

The eyes were half full too,

Chrysalis over heart was half formed,

And the memory went bust.

I only remember

The shower of the stardust,

Don't remember 

The shower of  rust.

Till you and I have no peculiarity

 

They look at where I search,

They look at where I perch,

They look at where you search,

They look at where you perch.

They help me with my search,

They tell me where to perch,

They help you with your search,

They tell you where to perch.

Till all searches are the same,

All purchases are the same,

Till you and I have no peculiarity,

Till you and I reach singularity.

Then all the searches will be over,

For all the keywords will be the same,

All the adjectives will be  the same,

And no adverbs will remain.

Raakhi bandhwaunga

 

With apologies to Sahir Ludhianvi:

Kabhi, kabhi mere dil me khayal aataa hai,

Tu hoti toh aisa hota,

Tu hoti toh waisa hota,

Tu es bat pe ladti,

Tu us bat pe zid karti,

Kabhi tu zid karti,

'Mujhe bazaar tak chhor aa,'

Kabhi banawati gusse mein kahte mujhe,

'Bus itna he hai raakhi ka gift?'

Aur, kabhi kaftee, 'Main Ma ko mana lungi,

'Tu ja NDA ki taiyari kar, bhaiya.'

Agle janam mein, O ma,

Mujhe ek bahan zarur dena.

Raakhi bandhwaunga.