When men make laws that rip the realm Into unequal smithereen, Who more than women know the ruse, Having many a tyranny…
The women plant themselves, waving The Flag, flaunting The Preamble. In their settled do-or-die, They seem one with the earth they occupy.…
Mumbai / India 19 December 2019 Indian muslim girl hold poster protests against anti muslim controversial Citizenship Amendment Bill ( CAB CAA…
As the tanks roll down Rajpath, The women at Shaheen Bagh Shore up the republic From the day’s commanders. There is the…
An Indian Spring is underway— Will it lead to a flowering That leaves behind a winter long, Or will it be another…
The prime minister and home minister have spectacularly succeeded in cementing the Indian polity across denominations behind the founding secular principles of the constitution
(Transcreation of Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s contentious/celebrated poem “Hum Dekhengei” written In 1979 as critique of Zia ul Haq’s oppressive Islamist rule) …
Suddenly, the gods are missing, The people are everywhere. Those that were circumspect Seem to have shed their fear. Thunder from…
Will a Second Repeal Follow?
The gates have been barred. Now the fixers with sticks And bricks can enter Without hindrance From the turnstile left Open for…
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