Cud on a Plate

Author: Bivin A. Peter (Athi)
Pages: 88
Year of Publication: 2018
Price: Rs 200
ISBN:
978-93-5045-172-4 (9789350451724)

About the Author
Bivin A. Peter prefers to use the pen name Athi, which was given to him by his late friend, Abhayan. He describes this collection as “partly digested thoughts pressed upon a paper which are going to be chewed on further from this book by all those who read it, hence the title Cud on a Plate.”

Teaser

Corporate Indian-American

What’s Indian about this man?
His disgust for toilet paper? Yes, he’s
a strong believer of water-wash guided
by his left hand.
His brown cookie colour, I suppose,
his Indo trying to be British accent
altered by the regular intake of
American series like a faluda – where
ice cream is just an ingredient.

He says: “What’s up?”
followed with a hi-five.
He’s a fan of Harley-Davidson,
works in an American company,
wears a Nike t-shirt with
Levi Strauss & Co. jeans and a Crocs slip-on.
Should I mention Jockey innerwear? C’mon!
Back from his daytime job,
he pours for himself a shot of JD
while watching Friends
on an HP laptop munching
Lays waiting for the KFC
home delivery ordered online
through his iPhone.

All of this looked over by a poster of
The Doors hanging on his wall
facing a confused Indian
neatly gift-wrapped by Americans.

Contents
50 poems