I wanted to run the Big B version of Chitrahaar this week, when I stumbled upon a really cool French ad for bottled water (Volvic) featuring the hottie Frenchman Zizou, set to AR Rahman's "Bombay Theme". I went on to find two more ads in the same Volvic series along with a Shekhar Kapoor ad with Rahman's music for an Italian icecream company, and an ad in which Rahman pitches for a staellite radio. Then there were two clips from the Spike Lee's bank- robbery thriller "Inside Man" (with Clive Owen; I am going to so watch this movie soon) that features Rahman's ever dance-able "Chaiyya Chaiyya" as the score for the opening and closing credits. I also recalled that Rahman's "Bombay Theme" made a brief apperance in Nicolas Cage *rring "Lord of War". So that go added as well. Finally, we have the vedy vedy lovely theme Rahman composed for Banyan. Is the world becoming flat? I don't know but you go watch:

IV.

I fell beside him and his corpse turned over, tight already as a snapping string. Shot in the neck. "And that's how you'll end too," I whisper to myself; "lie still; no moving. Now patience flowers in death." Then I could hear "Der springt noch auf," above, and very near. Blood mixed with mud was drying on my ear.

translated from the Hungarian by Zsuzsanna Ozsváth and Frederick Turner

Note: When the Hungarian Jewish poet Miklós Radnóti's body was exhumed from a mass grave after World War II, a bundle of his poems was found in his coat pocket, including his final poem "Postcard IV" shown above.

Without commas, one line touching the other I write poems the way I live, in darkness, blind, crossing the paper like a worm. Flashlights, books -- the guards took everything. There's no mail, only fog drifts over the barracks.

translated from the Hungarian by Steven Polgár