Never Ever Forget
A poem about communal violence and those who fuel it
Representational Image
Dear Nation,
hope you remember
Last year,
around the same time
while corpses were
flowing in the rivers
A Modern Nero
was busy feeding the peacocks..
and posing for ads declaring
sab changa si..
Empty lungs of
this great nation
choked by the vikas
gasped
for a little bout free air
A Fuhrer,
who denied the dead
honourable funeral
and
dignity of a number... was
shortlisted for the award of
"Global Life Saver"
Dare you forget,
Oh nation,
any of this, each of this
everything about this ..
Or otherwise tomorrow
the folklore and school texts...
parade the perpetrators as victims ..
promote fear as faith..
discount the murders as suicides
and
celebrate Vinash as Vikas...
*The poet is a Karnataka-based journalist and activist.
Also by Shivasundar:
Never Ever Forget
A poem about communal violence and those who fuel it
Representational Image
Dear Nation,
hope you remember
Last year,
around the same time
while corpses were
flowing in the rivers
A Modern Nero
was busy feeding the peacocks..
and posing for ads declaring
sab changa si..
Empty lungs of
this great nation
choked by the vikas
gasped
for a little bout free air
A Fuhrer,
who denied the dead
honourable funeral
and
dignity of a number... was
shortlisted for the award of
"Global Life Saver"
Dare you forget,
Oh nation,
any of this, each of this
everything about this ..
Or otherwise tomorrow
the folklore and school texts...
parade the perpetrators as victims ..
promote fear as faith..
discount the murders as suicides
and
celebrate Vinash as Vikas...
*The poet is a Karnataka-based journalist and activist.
Also by Shivasundar:
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