Pellet Song
We want water We want water We want land We want oxygen We want food We want peace We want justice, Father! (All the children of the world) Boom! Boom!…
Moumita Alam
And We Are Much More Than Our Uterus. (In Solidarity With the protesting wrestlers)
Don't cry. Pity this nation which knows about your medals not your pains and wounds. They clip your wings and celebrate your blood spilled journey with sugar-coated smiles. Words are…
February: The Month of Deaths
1 18th February 1983 Thanks to God(?) History doesn't stink. Or else it could have still stinking the flesh, dust and blood of that six hours - the insane hours…
Varavara Rao: The Conscience of Our Time
Two districts of Gujarat have begun to grant citizenship to minorities(Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Parsis and Christians) from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. More than hundreds drowned in Morbi, Gujarat in…
Review of Bhaswati Ghosh’s novel, Victory Colony, 1950
Victory Colony, 1950 by Bhaswati Ghosh is a harrowing tale of partition that brought death and displacement for millions of people. The novel is set in Kolkata. Though the novel…
Is Mamata Banerjee a Poster Girl of RSS?
There is/was a hullabaloo among them who believe or rather portray her as more left than CPIM(Communist Party Of India - Marxist ) itself about Mamta Banerjee's comment that all…
#Let’sRaiseHell
On the day India was born eleven demons were let loose. A great celebration ensued Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah! India won the match again! The match is always fixed. A man…
To Leena Manimekalai
In a very holy land In a very pious place One hundred thirty crore people live Sensitive, religious, courageous and non-sensuous. We get hurt And rightly so When a polymorph…
In The Name Of Hate
Enough Enough is enough Now mourn that we have killed our Prophet's Words. Isn't the Prophet an epitome of love? Hang your neck in shame You have lost both worlds.…
For Teesta Setalvad
You are Teesta What does it matter You have been born in Sikkim Or in Gujarat! From the rush of your flow hope takes birth from your magnanimity a thousand…
For Afreen Fatima
I can see your ribs cracking and the bones bleeding within. Your eyes are numb tears frozen. I can see your hands shaking your legs heavy. Your heart is pounding…
A Phallic Country
(A Dystopian Nation) Under the rubble of a whole nation we have only phalluses billions of phalluses nothing else where history is edited and the future is smoky phallus rules…
How Not To Write A Poem
No No Muslim was killed in Gujarat No Muslim is being killed now The vendor* was not selling fruit No one vandalized his cart in Karnataka No No bird…
Rampurhat
The entire city is smelling of burnt human flesh all are smelling same - the flesh of the children, pregnant women and newly wed couple. We learnt today fire does…
Shopping Mall or Shocking Mall
Eight farmers have taken their own lives. The death certificate is crystal clear. It's suicide not murder. The potatoes they have to sell in zero profit are in shopping trolley…
I Am A Muslim Woman
I am a Muslim Woman And I am not for sale I sacrifice my life for freedom struggle I stand against the British rule I am Shaheen bagh I am…
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