The Vatican’s gotten cool
As cool as cool can be
It shows the times are changing
As far as we can see Read more

You could hear him on CNN and on BBC
His diction energetic, his flow so easy
As Obama spoke, holding all in sway
Twas an inspired moment for the US of A Read more

There’s Facebook and there’s Twitter
Sometimes sweet and sometimes bitter
But there’s a twist in the social tale
When rulers strike with policing gale
“Free speech under threat!,” tweeters rant
When the cops go out to kick their pants
Hums and haws and shrill cries all around
As the State moves to shake the ground.
“Fundamental right!” shriek slacktivists
Unknowing they are of a constitutional twist.
The right, you see, bears no political surety
When there’s a threat to national security. Read more

It’s in the nature of the nation
That we revel in sensations
And what better way to blow a fuse
Than rustle up some spooky news! Read more

There is in our midst a minister
Whose ways seem quite sinister
He wants to screen your Facebook status
Like a doc out to kill an unwanted foetus Read more

Is he from heaven, offering some manna?
Is he a god, this man they call Anna?
He promises us the moon, called Jan Lokpal
He is batting so well, but where is the ball? Read more

In the pursuit of the thing they call a scoop
Some hacks are known occasionally to stoop
But none, as we’ve seen now, can go so low
with tricks that made this baron grow Read more

In the big world of Internet, they tried Orkut and Buzz
Could not make a Wave, despite all the fuss
But the venerable geeks of Google, nevertheless
Or trying a second coming, and it’s called Plus. Read more

There is a premier who leads a coalition
His mission is to avoid collisions
So he lets things just drift
To prevent ugly rifts
Leaving very little to his volition! Read more

Tunisia, Algeria, Yemen and Egypt
The movies are different but of the same script
A frenzied fever is sweeping the Arab World
Strange new feelings have here unfurled
The virus of democracy, like the common cold
Is spreading across to make citizens bold! Read more