Saturday, January 21, 2006

BBC World News



The immediacy of living on a small, desert island, with simple needs well met, diminishes the mechanical hunger for world news; and the feelings of anger, remorse, apathy and often, utter uselessness against massive political forces get far removed.

BBC: World News

How utterly irrelevant,
The news of the world
Wafting on in dulcet
Voices of the BBC;
Here, life sparkles like
The fish on the next line,
Or the catch in the
Next cast of net, unfailingly,
In simple, languorous,
Natural immediacy.

From Island Poems by Ronnie Patel (Lotus Print ISBN 81-88451-02-09 C.Right Author) now out of print.


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Born in Bombay prior to independence of India from the British, Ronnie Patel spent several years of his life in London of the fifties and sixties. During that time and since, sometimes in turn, sometimes concomitantly, he became company executive, businessman: fashion garments and poultry farming, actor, film-maker, writer and poet. He has lived and travelled extensively round the world for business and pleasure, and has been an exemplary generalist. Except for the occasional forays, he retired from active corporate and business life well over a decade ago, even to shed, at last, the ubiquitous euphemism: consultant. Among his other interests, which include scuba-diving, golf and bridge he has recently taken up oil painting.