Aathmaanaam: Translations from Heaven and Hell

Tomorrow for us too Puffed rice with peanuts will satisfy hunger Little money will gather glee The flower petals will show the way

She Climbing my stage of marriage the women who lost their virginity Pregnant after marriage My lady of my marriage stage don't know whose marriage stage love she is?

In the well of life In the well of life in the lustful water the splashing "bucket" I am Who is that messenger who pulls it with a noose

Go sir go   I am a bad guy I smoke beedi      I am a bad guy      I smoke curled leaf I am a bad guy I smoke a cigarette     I am a bad guy     I smoke a filter cigarette I am a bad guy I smoke a filter kings cigarette     I am a bad guy     I smoke a cigar I am a bad guy I smoke a pipe    I am a bad guy    I snuff I am a bad guy I eat betel-nut leaves     I am a bad guy     I eat tobacco I am a bad guy I eat 'zarda beeda'     I am a bad guy     I wear vest and brief I am a bad guy I wear pant and shirt     I am a bad guy     I go in car I am a bad guy I go in a taxi     I am a bad guy     I go in an autorickshaw I am a bad guy I go in an cycle-rickshaw      I am a bad guy      I go in cycle I am a bad guy I go in a bus     I a...

A true story One day night I started counting the stars in the clear sky Becoming a great man I started a yagna which no one tried Counting counting counting gnitnuoc gnitnuoc gnitnuoc ingcount ingcount ingcount When clearly correct Suddenly from somehwere a star came I added that too another one again Like this one by one one by one kept coming tiring tired I got tired I tore and threw that count list chit I had marked on In the clear sky stars blinking their eyes they blinked themselves I was curled in my corner

In the new sacred couplet verse a wondrous chapter Raising on the hip of those twin coconut trees the shining silver To which does it belong to