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