Scamster Poet?

By LIFS | September 22, 2011

Ramalinga Raju, founder chairman of  Satyam Computers, currently imprisoned on chrages of masterminding India’s biggest corporate fraud, has published a book of Telugu poems, which include odes to morality and ethics. “Conscience is the sound of a bee’s wing. It’s a sound you cannot switch off.’’

Another poem reflects on betrayal.

“What’s the greatest betrayal of all?….

The betrayal that beats all betrayals

is the one perpetrated by you upon yourself.

At another stage he writes:

Let me live in deed and thought

Honestly

In one poem he writes:

Don’t ignore anything

Don’t belittle anyone

The numbers you count

Always alter your calculations

That is what the birds in cage

Always say about  you

In another poem, he gets metaphysical:

…Oxygen, Carbon, Hydrogen

Iron, Sulphur, Iodine, Copper, Zinc, Fluoride

Bill all of them together

Add DNA, paste to taste

Put a lid till all grind to a heavenly mix

That is Man.