Daily Diet

The floods have hit North Bengal, there's a drought at Madhya Pradesh Lives lost in a gang war, two hundred starved to death A brand new herbal capsule, to keep your hunger in check And the neon sign to show you the way, how to believe in the best It's all just a part of your diet, to keep you through the day 'Til night comes back to take you again, another day closer to death It's steaming red hot news for you, computerised marmalade They can choose what you fancy, to keep you through the day There's Salman Rushdie's head for you, or a naked Saraswati Monica Lewinsky's DNA, no end to variety A desi pineapple pickle, or a new Palestinian recipe If Cola can change its by-line so can the party policy It's all just a part of your diet, to feed you through the day 'Til night comes back to take you again, another day closer to death For the patriotic palate, there's the nuclear chewing gum For fifty years of lying, synthetic Bande Mataram A whole new world of cocktails for the middle class idiot box Flip the channels and sip away, and a remixed Mahabharata A child abused for a mission or an altar for a rape It's only just the sizzled sex, lies and videotape It's all just a part of your diet, to feed you through the day 'Til night comes back to take you again, another day closer to death Going going gone for a dollar, the wicket of a cricket team We're free to bite our collars but the fate of the game is sealed Oh the Bollywood babies are lonely, collecting grenades and guns So when they are not busy shooting They're shooting reindeers for fun, for fun Another Kashmiri is shot in the belly and it's almost April fool Bribe the gentry, your boy get's an entry in a English medium school It's all just a part of your diet, to feed you through the day 'Til night comes back to take you again, another day closer to death A man's got to work for a living, and pay the governor tax But the governor's gone for a vacation With four thousand crores in black RDX is freely accessible, tie it 'round your spleen And if you feel that your culture is lacking Go on, paint it mera wala green A lipstick will turn into a leopard to sell you a new a detergent A digital mouse will hop and skip to teach you the alphabet It's all just a part of your diet, to feed you through the day 'Til night comes back to take you again, another day closer to death The hunger grows on and on, the ever hungry PTI It's twenty four hours of hunger, the ravenous satellite It's a question of solving the hunger, a question for you to decide Who cares if you're just a vegetarian, it's a question of just appetite There's mint for a mouthwash, it's time you decide to kiss There's cyanide once and for all to solve the population crisis It's all just a part of your diet, to feed you through the day 'Til night comes back to take you again, another day closer to death