tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65448246795610751202024-03-16T06:40:02.532+05:30INTERACTIONSInteraction involves a whole gamut of relationships among people, between two or more, in fact all living things, or between living and nonliving things, and perhaps even among non-living things. The need for interaction, I believe, is universal, for the more one interacts the more alive one feels, and the less one interacts the less one lives. Through INTERACTIONS I hope to interact with anyone on any issue in my modest way, to keep the flame of life burning at least in my own self.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger93125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6544824679561075120.post-36879372777316243422024-03-02T11:34:00.000+05:302024-03-02T11:34:23.361+05:30Bharat Ratna Awards<p> </p><h2 style="text-align: left;"></h2><h1><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyF0WZS8BSfhZSzB2uVS3V4LOYsIzpaX2_R_wI_TfIHRg7j9iQaF2rWSGOcJTgg_SLpAQw-Zf1rZCdA22N2XESrn0SDv9RU5Gd5tmNIelAHpym8jGOxBdM61tIz12GnSa-I2gRxeW7hVu-DXKntKfe6ILI0vC_52HY0emGdXiWE7Y1K2UM-AZ7fzkOrag/s1280/bharat-ratna-award.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="853" data-original-width="1280" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyF0WZS8BSfhZSzB2uVS3V4LOYsIzpaX2_R_wI_TfIHRg7j9iQaF2rWSGOcJTgg_SLpAQw-Zf1rZCdA22N2XESrn0SDv9RU5Gd5tmNIelAHpym8jGOxBdM61tIz12GnSa-I2gRxeW7hVu-DXKntKfe6ILI0vC_52HY0emGdXiWE7Y1K2UM-AZ7fzkOrag/w400-h266/bharat-ratna-award.jpg" width="400" /></a></p></h1><h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Here are two poems on the state of the nation.</span><p></p></h1><h1 style="text-align: left;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></b></h1><h1 style="text-align: left;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">Bharat Ratna
as Consolation Prize</span></span></b></h1><b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> <br /></span></o:p></span></b><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US"><span>He was a
formidable contender<br /></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span>aspiring for an
Everest-like pinnacle<br /></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span>he stood at the
base<br /></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span>from where he
espied the peak<br /></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span>The climb seemed
impossible<br /></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span>so steep so
slippery<br /></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span>yet he was
determined to go up<br /></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span>at any cost<br /></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span>by any means<br /></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span>by daring his
opponents<br /></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span>by shedding blood<br /></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span>by razing a
structure<br /></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span>by insidious
stratagems<br /></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p><span> <br /></span></o:p></span><span lang="EN-US"><span>He almost reached
the top<br /></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span>Just one step
more…<br /></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span>but he was
bettered<br /></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span>by a rival!<br /></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span>by fate!<br /></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p><span> <br /></span></o:p></span><span lang="EN-US"><span>He tried another
ruse<br /></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span>a fatal
miscalculation<br /></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span>that misfired<br /></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span>and he fell flat
on his face<br /></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span>spread-eagled<br /></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span>never to rise
again<br /></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span>another nurtured
by him<br /></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span>appropriating his
Herculean labours<br /></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p><span> <br /></span></o:p></span><span lang="EN-US"><span>He was flicked
out<br /></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span>like a fly from
milk<br /></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span>silenced<br /></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span>wrapped in oblivion<br /></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p><span> <br /></span></o:p></span><span lang="EN-US"><span>The winner had
become a loser<br /></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p><span> <br /></span></o:p></span><span lang="EN-US"><span>Yet after Ramlalla
was installed<br /></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span>they unwrapped
him<br /> </span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span>As they dished
out a bunch of Bharat Ratnas<br /></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span>one was tossed
into his lap<br /></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span>as consolation
prize<br /></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span>---</span></span>
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Raining Guarantees</span><span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">During the last seventy years<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">they did nothing worthwhile<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">at best they were measly miserly<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Today we are showering guarantees on all<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">on th hungry<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">on the homeless<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">on the old<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">on the sick</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">on woman<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">on farmers<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">on one and all<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Further we have opened safe havens<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">for those chased by sarkari bloodhounds and handcuffers<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">they have just to walk in with their baggage<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">And above all<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">We are dishing out Bharat Ratnas<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">for those who feel their leaders have been left out<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Now Ratnas are theirs for the asking<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">at a price though<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">--- </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6544824679561075120.post-47404431509812190062024-01-20T11:49:00.004+05:302024-01-29T19:29:11.275+05:30 Killing of the Mind: MENTICIDE: A POEM<p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> Please read the poem and two comments that follow.</b></span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">MENTICIDE</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEikHGomr8dxUIsSBr_iWrSUEusKZoUhPRdN_2j9msGbDBdM2vEnb1WDf7K2okJmFuK96afBONsfycVZIYVNPVWu31lofxbbfe7E2l6jlG7cY4aj_moDmT0q1eEJ4ABN4qTQvhG3vgyxSlm3_AO8VFT5LhbUJI0K0NYhtuESjCU1b5525ipf036ayAegRi4" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEikHGomr8dxUIsSBr_iWrSUEusKZoUhPRdN_2j9msGbDBdM2vEnb1WDf7K2okJmFuK96afBONsfycVZIYVNPVWu31lofxbbfe7E2l6jlG7cY4aj_moDmT0q1eEJ4ABN4qTQvhG3vgyxSlm3_AO8VFT5LhbUJI0K0NYhtuESjCU1b5525ipf036ayAegRi4=w400-h225" width="400" /></a></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> (</span><span>Courtesy </span>You Tube: Stem Disintermedia inc.)</span></h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p><b><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;">Killing of the mind!</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span>How is it done?</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> <span> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span></span>No knives</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> <span> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span></span>No clubs</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span>No guns</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span>No bloodletting</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span>No violence </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span>of any kind</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span>not at all</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span>It is done</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span>gently</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span>quietly</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span>seductively</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span>insidiously</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span>projecting the hologram</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span>of a messianic face</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span>all over</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span>everywhere</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span>All else is submerged</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span>in its blinding darkness</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span>The mind sees </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span>only</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span>one insignia</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span>one colour</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span>one face</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span>and bows </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span>in blank submission</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>--- </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> Two comments
on the poem<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">FISH DID
NOT DISCOVER WATER<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">"IN FACT,
BECAUSE THEY ARE COMPLETELY IMMERSED IN IT, THEY LIVE UNAWARE OF ITS EXISTENCE.
SIMILARLY, WHEN A CONDUCT IS NORMALIZED BY A DOMINANT CULTURAL ENVIRONMENT, IT
BECOMES INVISIBLE. " <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">‒</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> Marshall McLuhan<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">"Our may
become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but
by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching
our children."<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">‒</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> Thomas Sowell<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></b></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6544824679561075120.post-52457832007860371332023-11-06T12:18:00.002+05:302023-11-11T12:06:15.350+05:30Genocide in Gaza and the Taxidermied Man<p> <span style="font-size: large;">These days I am translating selected poetry of a Punjabi Dalit poet, Madan Veera, and shortly going to publish the collection. Here is one of the poems from the collection: </span></p><p><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Taxidermied Man </b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-ligatures: none;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-ligatures: none;"><b>Atma
Rama<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-ligatures: none;"><b>now
you are neither the veheda’s <i>Atma<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-ligatures: none;"><b>nor
the veheda’s soul<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-ligatures: none;"><b>because
in the haze of <i>bharm<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-ligatures: none;"><b>in
the fog of <i>dharm</i><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-ligatures: none;"><b>your
identity is shrinking<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-ligatures: none;"><b>your
existence has been circumscribed <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-ligatures: none;"><b> </b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-ligatures: none;"><b>You
are scattering into bits<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-ligatures: none;"><b>floating
like specks of dust<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-ligatures: none;"><b>rhapsodizing
about <i>dharm</i><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-ligatures: none;"><b>in
the rush of hollow slogans<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-ligatures: none;"><b>in
the hope of securing your afterlife<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-ligatures: none;"><b>in
the effort to break out of the <i>cycle of eighty-four</i><span style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-ligatures: none;"><b>seeking
the path to <i>mukti<span style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-ligatures: none;"><b>you
have become a dweller of the chimerical world <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-ligatures: none;"><b>of
dharm gurus and <i>dharmsthans<span style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-ligatures: none;"><b> </b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-ligatures: none;"><b>Searching
for <i>moksha</i> <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-ligatures: none;"><b>you
have found like many others like you<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-ligatures: none;"><b>your
own <i>Sarvashaktimaan</i><span style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-ligatures: none;"><b>that
matches your deluded mind <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-ligatures: none;"><b>Now
the reins of your life<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-ligatures: none;"><b>are
in the hands of<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-ligatures: none;"><b>your
self-created Tyrant<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-ligatures: none;"><b>your
folded hands are bound<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-ligatures: none;"><b>in
your self-made handcuffs<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-ligatures: none;"><b>your
closed eyes enclose<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-ligatures: none;"><b>self-created
stale dreams<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-ligatures: none;"><b>your
closed lips are iterating<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-ligatures: none;"><b> a cycle of sleepy words <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-ligatures: none;"><b>Now
to listen with your ears<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-ligatures: none;"><b>to
see with your eyes<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-ligatures: none;"><b>to
speak with your tongue <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-ligatures: none;"><b>is
sinful for you <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-ligatures: none;"><b> </b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-ligatures: none;"><b>Now
you are no longer a<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-ligatures: none;"><b>shining<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-ligatures: none;"><b>burning
<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-ligatures: none;"><b>thinking
human being<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-ligatures: none;"><b> you are a milch cow’s <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-ligatures: none;"><b>taxidermied
dummy <o:p></o:p></b></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-ligatures: none;"><b>of
the calf that died last month<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-ligatures: none;"><b>stinking
stuffed with straw <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-ligatures: none;"><b>that
we use<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-ligatures: none;"><b>at
the time of milking<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-ligatures: none;"><b>---</b></span><span lang="EN-US"><b> </b><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-ligatures: none;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-ligatures: none;">I wish to draw the reader's attention to the title of this poem,<i> Taxidermied Man</i>. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"> </span><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">While
searching the Internet to check if I had used the right expression, I was
horrified to discover that there indeed existed a real example of a Taxidermied Man.
Please read the following to experience the horror perpetrated by a white man on a black
man:</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> </span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> Taxidermied Man </span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> Man stuffed and displayed
like a wild animal</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjmIL3RNSMOdPkyDh40F3BhMFj7jnNAk2vRQ3txiXqc3TEwkM6j8DCLKYSgabXOVbzIIcf1UzSEhql1EH8UiY-yYsn2NBmz_OycOf58B7uG0ptdUHXuFwNJeunVMVSgTk5e7EFLYl2NpBRHGCr7G4VjNMpeDlSosCClL47WoH8BDYr6IukNDxuX3qXS4Rc" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="549" data-original-width="976" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjmIL3RNSMOdPkyDh40F3BhMFj7jnNAk2vRQ3txiXqc3TEwkM6j8DCLKYSgabXOVbzIIcf1UzSEhql1EH8UiY-yYsn2NBmz_OycOf58B7uG0ptdUHXuFwNJeunVMVSgTk5e7EFLYl2NpBRHGCr7G4VjNMpeDlSosCClL47WoH8BDYr6IukNDxuX3qXS4Rc" width="320" /></a></span></b></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><br /><br /></span></b></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: x-large; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background: white; color: #111111; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In the early
19th Century, it was fashionable for Europeans to collect wild animals from
around the globe, bring them home and put them on display. One French dealer
went further, bringing back the body of an African warrior.</span> It was on
display as a <span style="background: white; color: #141414; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">museum
exhibit in France and Spain. Generations of Europeans gaped at his half-naked
body, which had been stuffed and mounted by a taxidermist. There he stood,
nameless, exhibited like a trophy titled <i>El Negro</i>.</span> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="font-size: x-large;">This is what one visitor says on watching the display.</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="ReithSans, Helvetica, Arial, freesans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #141414;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>'This was not Madame Tussaud's. I was not staring at an illusion of authenticity - this black man was neither a cast nor some kind of mummy. He was a human being, displayed like yet another wildlife specimen. History dictated that the taxidermist was a white European and his object a black African. The reverse was unimaginable. I flushed and felt the roots of my hair prickling - simply from a diffuse sense of shame</b></span></span><span face="ReithSans, Helvetica, Arial, freesans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #141414; font-size: 16px;">.'</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="background: white; color: #111111; line-height: 19.26px; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="background: white; color: #111111; line-height: 19.26px; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><i>Please go to the following link to read the full story on BBC website that makes one’s hair stand on end.</i></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="background: white; color: #111111; line-height: 19.26px; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span><cite><span style="background: white; color: #006d21; font-family: Roboto; font-style: normal; line-height: 19.26px; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-37344210">https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-37344210</a></span></cite><a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=taxidermied+human&form=ANSPH1&refig=be3e645217dc407487b79ea2d9830da5&pc=U531&sp=1&lq=0&qs=SC&pq=axidermied+&sc=1-11&cvid=be3e645217dc407487b79ea2d9830da5&ntref=1"><span style="background: white; color: #4007a2; font-family: Roboto; line-height: 19.26px; text-decoration-line: none;"><br /><span style="display: inline-block;"></span><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration-line: none;"></span></span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 19.26px; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="font-size: x-large;">This touches
the lowest depth of Whiteman’s racism. Thinking of what is happening in Gaza
these days one wonders whether the European man has undergone any substantial change of heart.</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="font-size: x-large;"> Let us understand that ethnic cleansing is not new to the Western man. It has a long and continuing tradition: Cleansing of North and South Ameria, Australia, New Zealand and parts of Africa of their indigenous inhabitants. </b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="font-size: x-large;">And why forget Europe itself. The Europeans were bent upon cleansing Europe of the Jews, having had a centuries long history of persecution of the Jews culminating in what happened around the WWII. The Europeans, after the German massacre of 6 million Jews in the holocaust, succeeded in getting rid of the vast majority of their Jewish population pushing them off to Palestine, their so-called Promised Land, and helping them to cleanse Palestine of Arabs who have lived there for centuries. Isn't it ironic that the Zionist Jews who suffered the most at the hands of the European Christians, instead of wreaking vengeance on their persecutors, are using them to persecute the Palestinians who hardly had any serious history of quarrel with the Jews. Gaza is the latest playground of this White man's game of ethnic cleansing.</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>---</b></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /><br /></b></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6544824679561075120.post-28273259829376036402023-09-17T19:11:00.001+05:302023-09-17T19:11:54.154+05:30DANDY AND THE CHEETAH<p> </p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Readers might enjoy reading this poem. </span></b></p><p><br /></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">Dandy and the
Cheetah</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>[Dandy:(i) a man
unduly concerned with looking stylish and fashionable<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(ii) an excellent thing of its
kind; the Winchester Model 37 shotgun is a dandy, at a low price]<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span><b>You saw him
wearing a hat</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>and a sleeveless
jacket <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>holding a
state-of-the-art camera<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>as if raring to
go on a safari<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>of course, the
African <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>But he was on a
different mission:<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>to unveil to the
nation the <i>homecoming</i> <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>of the cheetah,
the magnificent cat extinct long ago<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>He gently rotated
a circular handle to open the trapdoor <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>and out came,
majestically, two Nambian cheetahs<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>one by one, one
male another female<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>But let us first
focus on <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>the most
excellent thing of the event: the hat<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>the cheetah the
next excellent thing can wait a bit<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>What brand of hat
is he wearing?<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>Fidora?<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>Homburg?<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>Bowler?<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>All three were
made famous by famous men<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>Fidora, first
worn by fashionable women in the US,<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>made a symbol of
wealth and status<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>by Prince of
Wales, later King Edward VII<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>became a
trademark of rough and tough cowboys, gangsters, <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>detectives, celebrities,
film stars, political leaders, jaaz musicians:<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>Humphery Bogart,
Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, Michael Jackson<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>Winston Churchill,
Eisenhower, Adenauer, even our own Raj Kapoor<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>And lo, even Bhagat
Singh!<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>Depend on him to
join these worthies <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>and emulate them
for nation’s glory<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>And it was on his
birthday too.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>The whole country
cheered him on this momentous occasion<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>The media went
gaga gaga sarey gama sarey gama pa pa…<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>calling it
another plume on his cap, rather his hat<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>Don’t be
surprised if he makes another promise, <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>one more among
his many,<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>to snatch and bring
back the Kohinoor, <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>if Shah Jehan’s
name doesn’t baulk him<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>Or may be some
other spectacular feat: <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>His best is yet
to be<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>But we have
almost forgotten the cheetah, <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>that excellent
animal of its kind: like that dandy<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>the excellent
Winchester 37 Shotgun, at a low price<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>Where does he
stand in comparison to<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the Fidora, the Homburg, the Bowler?<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>The pair step
out, relaxed or surprised, crane their necks <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>to survey and
feel their surroundings, the new landscape, <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>the new air, the
new smell, the new light, the new touch<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>Do they like it?<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>They have no
choice<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>They have to
survive, procreate, multiply<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>to obey the
compulsions of Nature<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>not for the glory
of the country of which they know nothing<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>Their benefactor
watches them through his branded camera <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>takes
photographs, cheers them by the clap of his hands<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>But do they know
who he is?<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>Do they look back
at him?<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>Do they thank him
for <i>homecoming</i>?<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>Or curse him for bringing
them into exile?<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>We don’t know<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>But we are
pleased, yes pleased, pleased…<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>The country has
got its cheetah back<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>Namaste cheetah,
namaste cheetah, namaste cheetah…<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>--- <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6544824679561075120.post-57993394039624767472023-08-03T13:52:00.002+05:302023-08-03T13:52:44.113+05:30 DRAUPADI DISROBED<p> </p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></b><b><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>A Court Scene
from the Mahabharat</b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Blind
Dhritarashtra<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">yet secure on his
throne<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">is now <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">deaf<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">dumb<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">even though<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">he can<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">see<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">hear<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">speak<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">He knows all<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Draupadi<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">disrobed<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">molested<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">clawed<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">mocked<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">paraded<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">cries out<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">for help<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Bhishma is mute<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">sworn to loyalty<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Gandhari sits
blindfolded<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">courtiers watch unmoved<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Pandavas disabled<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">having gambled
away<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">their valour<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Krishna is
nowhere near <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Mobs run riot<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">For Draupadi<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">all is lost<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">--</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><p> </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">--</span></b></span></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote>
<p></p><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6544824679561075120.post-21474463684957229462023-04-23T20:26:00.000+05:302023-04-23T20:26:49.444+05:30'How are the mighty fallen' :"OZYMANDIAS" a sonnet by Percy Bysshe Shelley<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">The poem given below, <i>'Ozymandias'</i> is a sonnet, a 14 - line poem written in 1817 and published in1818 by the British Romantic poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley, whose name is synonymous with radical social and political change. It is among his most famous poems.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="font-size: x-large;">Ozymandias</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> by </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Percy Bysshe Shelley<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">I met a traveller from an antique land,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">Who said — “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">Stand in the desert … Near them, on the sand,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">Tell that its sculptor well those passions read<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">And on the pedestal, these words appear:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">Nothing beside remains. Round the decay<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">The lone and level sands stretch far away.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>---<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As one can read, the poem depicts two trunkless legs along with a half sunk shattered visage, the 'frown', 'wrinkled lip' and 'sneer of cold command' clearly etched out by the sculptor who carved the statue. The wrecked statue belongs to a long dead powerful king, Ozymandias, ruthless and arrogant. The broken statue lies in a desert surrounded by nothing but sand all around, both the ruler and the land he ruled over utterly consumed by the havoc of time. The words on the pedestal speak with deadly irony of the futility of arrogance of power. Time does not spare anyone.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">Shelley's poem encapsulates metaphorically the outcome of
the tyrannical wielding of power – no leader, king, despot, dictator, or ruler
can overcome time. Overall, this sonnet paints a picture of an egotistical
character who thought himself without rival but who was cruel to his people.<i>
Ozymandias</i> is a commentary on the
ephemeral nature of absolute political power. Monarchs and dictators and
tyrants are all disappear sooner or later. Only their misdeeds and cruelties survive in history. She</span>lley's language
reflects his dislike for such rulers.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">The poem seems so relevant to our times when democracies world-over are transforming into dictatorships, ironically through elections, democracy seeming to be turning out the midwife of dictatorships.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">T C Ghai</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6544824679561075120.post-81925691450860082192023-01-10T19:16:00.000+05:302023-01-10T19:16:57.404+05:30Farid Ganj-i-Shakar (1179? - 1265?) in English verse translation<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Here is the front cover of my new book, a verse translation in English of couplets of Farid Ganj-i-Shakar, the first Punjabi poet, a Sufi saint and divine. The verse translation is followed by transcriptions of the original text in Gurumukhi, Shahmukhi and Devanagari scripts. </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4EbPbIxV8wc1Ur8Xl3Ws4eCC0ZFXeu8Su9qDu8LFwDuHNcKXjoHdV1i8cMMkGTCsScem1r1HDAWfBgtOzxTGF3ugl9yjT9ezoZz8kDGmVvmFfyM8hML-rJ5Q0RVuO_F9z2IQTUSjfgXpBllXDwXTmnXdcy3iX3nP6pyV_Y7tgosXKLeHfO3VYLVt_/s2692/IMG-4914.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2692" data-original-width="2015" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4EbPbIxV8wc1Ur8Xl3Ws4eCC0ZFXeu8Su9qDu8LFwDuHNcKXjoHdV1i8cMMkGTCsScem1r1HDAWfBgtOzxTGF3ugl9yjT9ezoZz8kDGmVvmFfyM8hML-rJ5Q0RVuO_F9z2IQTUSjfgXpBllXDwXTmnXdcy3iX3nP6pyV_Y7tgosXKLeHfO3VYLVt_/w478-h640/IMG-4914.jpg" width="478" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjeI-v-kmZtxgdykmzB6nTylsy6Sh_2wBNccXXKteybAA3aLqFlfbBZxCteppmn0UKH5ZuGu_xz4ZYNhZCdT-wisemYdS_MSL0W5d2oGQ5TK3oiEY_8LiB--XNqKDZPtrI3ThbWWKMVTrgfymG6Eqe4cMNUaHbsFMVgbgGpF3GHMxoKyPCeHAL3GwF/s369/IMG-20221222-WA0001%20farid%20cover%20back%20cropped.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="369" data-original-width="276" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjeI-v-kmZtxgdykmzB6nTylsy6Sh_2wBNccXXKteybAA3aLqFlfbBZxCteppmn0UKH5ZuGu_xz4ZYNhZCdT-wisemYdS_MSL0W5d2oGQ5TK3oiEY_8LiB--XNqKDZPtrI3ThbWWKMVTrgfymG6Eqe4cMNUaHbsFMVgbgGpF3GHMxoKyPCeHAL3GwF/w478-h640/IMG-20221222-WA0001%20farid%20cover%20back%20cropped.jpg" width="478" /></a></div><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6544824679561075120.post-44125576976331835882022-10-19T21:51:00.002+05:302022-10-19T21:51:54.217+05:30The Sanskari Rapists<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> <span style="font-size: x-large;">A Poem</span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US">The Sanskari
Rapists and the Raped<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">They raped, yet
they did not<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">even if they did,
as they certainly did,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">they didn’t. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">They murdered, yet
they didn’t.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">They smashed a
child to the ground, yet they didn’t.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">That’s why they
were garlanded<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">feted with
sweets, the sacred ladoos<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">by their men. By
their women too!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">How can the Sanskari
brahmins be guilty?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">What they do is
beyond reproach.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Their deeds are
not subject to human scrutiny.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">The courts had no
right to arraign them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">That’s why the
celebrations<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">to honour their
missionary heroism.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">What about the
raped?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Of what
consequence <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">is the life and honour
of a woman of the <i>other</i> race!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">And her pain<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">that has pierced
her innards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">each cell, each
pour and settled there<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">like pulsating, stabbing
poison<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">that doesn’t let
her live, let her die<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">let her forget!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">The silence all
around tells all.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">---<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6544824679561075120.post-35122028176456625562022-08-13T11:39:00.000+05:302022-08-13T11:39:43.892+05:30Jawahar Lal Nehru on the National Flag , the Tiranga<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jawahar Lal Nehru on the
National Flag, the Tiranga<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Here
is Jawahar Lal Nehru’s speech in the constituent Assembly on 22 July 1947 when
he moved the resolution on adopting the tricolour as the national flag.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #4472c4; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>Mr. President, it is my proud privilege to move the
following Resolution.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #4472c4; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>Resolved that the National Flag of India shall be
horizontal tricolour of deep Saffron (Kesari), white and dark green in equal
proportion. In the centre of the white band, there shall be a Wheel in navy
blue to represent the Charkha. The design of the Wheel shall be that of the
Wheel. (Chakra) which appears on the abacus of the Sarnath. Lion Capital of
Asoka. The diameter of the Wheel shall approximate to the width of the white
band, The ratio of the width to the length of the Flag shall ordinarily be 2:3.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #4472c4; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>This Resolution, Sir, is in simple language, in a
slightly technical language and there is no glow or warmth in the words that I
have read. Yet I am sure that many in this House will feel that glow and warmth
which I feel at the present moment, for behind this Resolution and the Flag
which I have the honour to present to this House for adoption lies history, the
concentrated history of a short span in a nation's existence. 'Nevertheless,
sometimes in a brief period we pass through the track of centuries. It is not
so much the mere act of living that counts but what , one does in this brief
life a that is ours; it is not so much the mere existence of a nation that
counts but what that nation does during the various periods of its existence;
and I do venture to claim that in the past quarter of a century or so India has
lived and acted in a concentrated way and the emotions which have filled the
people of India represent not merely a brief spell of years but something
infinitely more. They have gone down into history and tradition and have added
themselves on to that vast history and tradition which is our heritage in this
country. So, when I move this Resolution, I think of this concentrated history
through which all of us have passed during the last quarter of a century.
Memories crowd upon me. I remember the ups and downs of the great struggle for
freedom of this great nation. I remember and many in this House will remember
how we looked up to this Flag not only with pride and enthusiasm but with a
tingling in our veins; also, how, when we were sometimes down and out, then
again the sight of this Flag gave us courage to go on. Then, many who are not
present here today, many of our comrades who have passed, held on to this Flag,
some amongst them even unto death. and handed it over as they sank, to others
to hold it aloft. So, in this simple form of words, there is much more than
will be clear on the surface. There is the struggle of the people for freedom
with all its ups and downs and trials and disasters and there is, finally today
as I move this Resolution, a certain triumph about it a measure of triumph in
the conclusion of that struggle. Now, I realise fully, as this House must
realise, that this triumph of ours has been marred in many ways. There have
been, especially in the past few months many happenings which cause us sorrow,
which has gripped our hearts. We have seen parts of this dear motherland of
ours cut off from the rest. We have seen large numbers of people suffering
tremendously, large numbers wandering about like waifs and strays, without a
home. We have seen many other things which I need not repeat to this House, but
which we cannot forget. All this sorrow has dogged our footsteps. Even when we
have achieved victory and triumph, it still dogs us and we have tremendous
problems to face in the present and in the future. Nevertheless, it is true I
think hold it to be true that this moment does represent a triumph and a
victorious conclusion of all our struggles, for the moment. (Hear, hear).<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #4472c4; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>There has been a very great deal of bewailing and
moaning about various things that have happened. I am sad, all of us are sad at
heart because of those things. But let us distinguish that from the other fact
of triumph. because there is triumph in victory, in what has happened. It is no
small thing that that great and mighty empire which has represented imperialist
domination in this country has decided to end its days here. That was the
objective we aimed at. We have attained that objective or shall attain it very
soon. Of that there is no doubt. We have not attained the objective exactly in
the form in which we wanted it. The troubles and other things that accompany
our achievement are not to our liking. But we must remember that it Is very
seldom that people realise the dreams that they have dreamt. It is very seldom
that the aims and objectives with which we start are achieved in their entirety
in life in an individual's life or in a nation's life. We have many examples
before us. We need not go into the distant past. We have examples in the
present or in the recent past. Some years back, a great war was waged, a world
war bringing terrible misery to mankind. That war was meant for freedom and
democracy and the rest. That war ended in the triumph of those who said they
stood for freedom and democracy. Yet, hardly had that war ended when there were
rumours of fresh wars and fresh conflicts. Three days ago, this House and this
country and the world was shocked by the brutal murder in a neighbouring
country of the leaders of the nation. Today one reads in the papers of an
attack by an imperialist power on a friendly country in South-East Asia.
Freedom is still far off in this world and nations, all nations in greater or
lesser degree are struggling for their freedom. If we in the present have not
exactly achieved what we aimed at, it is not surprising. There is nothing in it
to be ashamed of. For I do think our achievement is no small achievement. it is
a very considerable achievement, a great achievement. Let no man run it down
because other things have happened which are not to our liking. Let us keep
these two things apart. Look at any country in the wide world. Where is the
country today, including the great and big powers, which is not full of
terrible problems, which is not in some way, politically and economically,
striving for freedom which somehow or other eludes its grasp? The problems of
India in the wider context do not appear to be terrible. The problems are rot
anything new to us. We have faced many disagreeable-things in the past. We have
not held back. We shall face all the other disagreeable things that face us in
the present or may do so in the future and we shall not flinch and we shall not
falter and we shall not quit. (Loud applause).<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #4472c4; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>So, in spite of everything that surrounds us, it is in
no spirit of down heartedness that I stand up in praise of this Nation for what
it has achieved. (Renewed cheers). It is right and proper that at this moment
we should adopt the symbols of this achievement, the symbol of freedom. Now what
is this freedom in its entirety and for all humanity. What is freedom and what
is the struggle for freedom and when does it end. As soon as you take one step
forward and achieve something further steps come up before you. There will be
no full freedom in this country or in the world as long as a single human being
is unfree. There will be no complete freedom as long as there is starvation,
hunger, lack of clothing lack of necessaries of life and lack of opportunity of
growth for every single human being, man, woman and child in the country. We
aim at that. We may not accomplish that because it is a terrific task. But we
shall do our utmost to accomplish that task and hope that our successors. when
they come, have an easier path to pursue. But there is no ending to that road
to freedom. As we go ahead, just as we sometimes in our vanity aim at
perfection, perfection never comes. But if we try hard enough, we do approach
the goal step by step. When we increase the happiness of the people, we
increase their stature in many ways and we proceed to our goal. I do not know
if there is an end to this or not, but we proceed towards some kind of cosummation
which in effect never ends. <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #4472c4; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>So I present this Flag to you. This Resolution defines
the Flag which I trust you will adopt. In a sense this Flag was adopted, not by
a formal resolution, but by popular acclaim and usage, adopted much more by the
sacrifice that surrounded it in the past few decades. We are in a sense only
ratifying that popular adoption. It is a Flag which has been variously
described. Some people, having misunderstood its significance, have thought of
it in communal terms and believe that some part of it represents this community
or that. But I may say that when this Flag was devised there was no communal
significance attached to it. We thought of a design for a Flag which was
beautiful, because the symbol of a nation must be beautiful to look at. We
thought of a Flag which would in its combination and in its separate parts
somehow represent the spirit of the nation, the tradition of the nation, that
mixed spirit and tradition which has grown up through thousands of years in
India. So, we devised this Flag. Perhaps I am partial but I do think that it is
a very beautiful Flag to Look at purely from the point of view of artistry, and
it has come to symbolise many other beautiful things, things of the spirit,
things of the mind, that give value to the individual's life and to the nation's
life, for a nation does not live merely by material things, although they are
highly important. It is important that we should have the good things of the
world, the material possessions of the world, that our people should have the
necessaries of life. That is of the utmost importance. Nevertheless, a nation,
and especially a nation like India with an immemorial past, lives by other
things also, the things of the spirit. If India had not been associated with
these ideals and things of the spirit during these thousands of years, what
would India have been? It has gone through a very great deal of misery and
degradation in the past, but somehow even in the depths of degradation, the
head of India gas been held high, the thought of India has been high, and the
ideals of India have been high. So we have gone through these tremendous ages
and we stand up today in proud thankfulness for our past and even more so for
the future that is to come for which we are going to work and for which our
successors are going to work. It is our privilege. of those assembled here, to
mark the transition in a particular way, in a way that will be remembered. I
began by saying that it is my proud privilege to be ordered to move this
Resolution. Now, Sir, may I say a few words about this particular Flag? It will
be seen that there is a slight variation from the one many of us have used
during these past years. The colours are the same, a deep saffron, a white and
a dark green. In the white previously there was the Charkha which symbolised
the common man in India, which symbolised the masses of the people, which
symbolised their industry and which came to us from the message which Mahatma
Gandhi delivered. (Cheers) Now, this particular Charkha symbol has been
slightly varied in this Flag, not taken away at all. Why then has this been
varied? Normally speaking, the symbol on one side-of the Flag should be exactly
the same as on the other side. Otherwise, there is a difficulty which goes
against the rules. Now, the Charkha, as it appeared previously on this Flag,
had the wheel on one side and the spindle on the other If you see the other
side of the Flag, the spindle comes the other way and the wheel comes this way;
so, it is not proportionate, because the wheel must be towards the pole, not
towards the end of the Flag. There was this practical difficulty. Therefore,
after considerable thought, we were of course convinced that this great symbol
which had enthused people should continue but that it should continue in a slightly
different form, that the wheel should be there, not the rest of the Charkha,
that is the spindle and the string which created this confusion, that the
essential mitt of the Charkha should be there, that is the wheel. So, the old
tradition continues in regard to the Charkha and the wheel. But what type of
wheel should we have? Our minds went back to many wheels but notably one famous
wheel, which had appeared in many places and which all of us have seen, the one
at the top of the capital of the Asoka column and in many other places. That
wheel is a symbol of India's ancient culture, It is a symbol of the many things
that India had stood for through the ages. So we thought that this Chakra
emblem should be there, and that wheel appears. For my part, I am exceedingly
happy that in this sense indirectly we have associated with this Flag of ours
not only this emblem but in a sense the name of Asoka, one of the most
magnificent names not only in India's history but in world history. It is well
that at this moment of strife, conflict and intolerance, our minds should go
back towards what India stood for in the ancient days and. what it has stood
for, I hope and believe, essentially throughout the ages in spite of mistakes
and errors and degradations from time to time. For, if India had not stood for
something very great, I do not think that India could have survived and carried
on its cultural traditions In a more or less continuous manner through these
vast ages. It carried on Its cultural tradition, not unchanging, not rigid, but
always keeping its essence, always adapting itself to new developments, to new
influences. That has been the tradition of India, always to put out fresh
blooms and flowers, always receptive to the good things that it receives,
sometimes receptive to bad things also, but always true to her ancient culture.
All manner of new influences through thousands of years have influenced us,
while we influenced them tremendously also, for you will remember that India
has not been in the past a tight little narrow country, disdaining other
countries. India throughout the long ages of her history has been connected
with other countries, not only connected with other countries, but has been an
international centre, sending out her people abroad to far-off countries
carrying her message and receiving the message of other countries in exchange,
but India was strong enough to remain embedded on the foundations on which she
was built although changes many changes, have taken place. The strength of
India it has been said, consists in this strong foundation. It consists also in
its amazing capacity to receive, to adapt what it wants to adapt, not to reject
because something is outside its scope, but to accept and receive everything.
It is folly for any nation or race to think that it can only give to and not
receive from the rest of the world. Once a nation or a race begins to think
like that, it becomes rigid, it becomes ungrowing; it grows backwards and
decays. In fact, if India's history can be traced, India's periods of decay are
those when it closed herself up into a shell and refused to receive or to look
at the outside world. India's greatest periods are those when she stretched her
hands to others in far off countries, sent her emissaries, ambassadors, her
trade agents and merchants to these countries and received ambassadors and emissaries
from broad. Now because I have mentioned the name of Asoka I should like you to
think that the Asokan period in Indian history was essentially an international
period of Indian history. It was not a narrowly national period. It was a
period when India's ambassadors went abroad to far countries and went abroad
not in the way of an Empire and imperialism but as ambassadors of peace and
culture and goodwill. (Cheers.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #4472c4; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>Therefore, this Flag that I have the honour to present
to you is not, I hope and trust, a Flag of Empire, a Flag of Imperialism, a
Flag of domination over anybody, but a Flag of freedom not only for ourselves
but a symbol of. freedom to all people who may see it. (Cheers). And wherever
it may go-and I hope it will go far, not only where Indians dwell as our
ambassadors and ministers but across the far seas where it may be carried by
Indian ships, wherever it may go it will bring a message, I hope, of freedom to
those people, a message of comradeship, a message that India wants to be friends
with every country of the world and India wants to help any people who seek
freedom. (Hear, hear). That I hope will be the message of this Flag everywhere
and I hope that in the freedom that is coming to us, we will not do what many
other people or some other people have unfortunately done, that is, in a
newfound strength suddenly to expand and become imperialistic in design. If
that happened that would be a terrible ending to our struggle for freedom.
(Hear, hear.) But there is that danger and, therefore, I venture to remind this
House of it , although this House needs no reminder-there is this danger in a
country suddenly unshackled in stretching out its arms and legs and trying to
hit out at other people. And if we do that, we become just like other nations
who seem to live in a kind of succession of conflicts and preparation for
conflict. That is the world today unfortunately.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #4472c4; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In some degree I
have been responsible for the foreign Policy during the past few months and
always the question is asked here or elsewhere: "What is your foreign
policy? To what group do you adhere to In this warring world?" Right at
the beginning I venture to say that we propose to belong to no power group. We
propose to function as far as we can as peace-makers and peace-bringers because
today we are not strong enough to be able to have our way. But at any rate we
propose to avoid all entanglements with power politics in the world. It is not
completely possible to do that in this complicated world of ours, but certainly
we are going to do our utmost to that end.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #4472c4; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>It is stated in this Resolution that the ratio of the
width to the length of the Flag shall ordinarily be 2:3. Now you will notice
the word "ordinarily". There is no absolute standard about the ratio
because the same Flag on a particular occasion may have a certain ratio that
might be more suitable or on any other occasion, in another place the ratio
might differ slightly. So there is no compulsion about this ratio. But
generally speaking, the ratio of 2:3 is a proper ratio. Sometimes the ratio 2:1
may be suitable for a Flag flying on a building. Whatever the ratio may be, the
point is not so much the relative length and breadth, but the essential design.
So, Sir, now I would present to you not only the Resolution but the Flag itself.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #4472c4; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>There are two of these National Flags before you. One
is on silk-the one I am holding-and the other on the other side is of cotton
Khadi. I beg to move this Resolution. (Cheers.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #4472c4; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b> </b>
xxx<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b>Comments<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">I wish the little people, many of
them philistines and neophytes, who are cawing like crows about the national
flag should recollect and carefully read this speech by going to the debate in
the Constituent Assembly that is the mother of all what people have to say
about the national flag. This speech presents a vision that connects India’s
past present and future in a string of continuity, its failures and successes,
and its aspirations and great challenges as a new nation. And also, Nehru
connects the living of his own day and the dead of the past with successions of
the generations to come. He also delineates India’s role in the international
arena and the nature of the role he hopes India can play. There is much more in
this speech than I have tried to show.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is
sad to note that the small-minded people fussing over the importance of the
national flag, monopolizing proprietary rights over it, seem to believe as if
it is they who invented the national flag and are also trying to become the
surrogate parents of the freedom movement ( believing that India became free with their arrival on the national scene) paying lip service to the greatest
peoples’ movement in India’s history, in which lakhs of people, big and small, participated playing different
roles sacrificing their lives and fortunes, about which the neophytes either know
very little or are pretending ignorance about it.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">T C Ghai <o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6544824679561075120.post-76191511275281393852022-03-23T15:40:00.001+05:302022-04-29T20:20:42.430+05:30Remembering Bhagat Singh and Pash: March 23<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Remembering Bhagat Singh and Pash: March 23<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">March 23 is a memorable day, certainly in Punjab but also
elsewhere in India. On this day in 1931, Bhagat Singh, along with his
revolutionary companions, Rajguru and Sukhdev, was executed by the British
Indian government. Pash (Avatar Singh Sandhu), a revolutionary poet, was shot
dead by militants, along with his friend Hans Raj, also on March 23 in 1988.
For Punjabis Bhagat Singh remains, after the Sikh Gurus, the most admired
figure. And Pash, himself a great admirer of Bhagat Singh, has become an iconic figure
in modern Punjabi poetry and literature. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I believe it is not
inappropriate to use this memorable occasion to showcase on this blog a few
poems of a Punjabi Dalit poet, <b>Madan Veera</b>. who carries forward the revolutionary message of Bhagat Singh of social equality and rejection of religious bigotry, and the revolutionary
poetic tradition established by poets like Pash, and Lal Singh Dil. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Madan Veera is one 21<sup>st</sup> century face of that message and literary movement. His poetic world is
the one in which the Dalits have moved out of the ostracized world, similar to
an animal enclosure, through education and social awareness. A number of them
have, after moving out, joined the mainstream, leaving the rest behind. Veera
writes primarily about those left out. He can also relate himself to
non-Punjabi Dalit figures like Phule, Periyar, Dalit Panthers. He does not
restrict himself to the Dalit issues limited to Punjab but relates to the
Dalits and the marginalized all over India, including women. He is by and large
in agreement with the agenda of the progressive writers. He is angry,
assertive, aggressive, and rebellious, loud and bold. The titles of three of
his four collections of poetry show it clearly: <i>Bhakhiya 2001 (</i>Smouldering<i>);
Nabaran di Ibarat 2009 (</i>Writings of the Rebellious<i>), Khara Paani 2018 (</i>Brackish
Waters).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His poetry is
almost one of total alienation from the great ancient Indian civilization. He distances himself from its foundational basis <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">‒</span> the Vedas, Upanishads, epics,
puranas, its gods, goddesses and heroes, the Varna Dharama, the Law of Karma,
Manu Smriti and all else. He rejects its claims of a glorious past. He even
rejects its present dispensation, its freedom movement, its leaders including
Gandhi and Nehru, its constitution and democratic pretensions based on the
parliamentary system, elections, its economic planning, its politics, its arts
and literature. He recognizes the influence of Buddha and Nanak only
reluctantly because for him their followers have refused to live by their
teachings. The reason stated by him is very simple. The total absence of Dalits and tribals from the mainstream civilization, and
their presence there only as victims . The promises made in the constitution and the
benefits accorded to the lower caste communities and tribes are nothing more than charity
based on compassion reserved for the lowly and the poor, not for an equal.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thus, it is a turning away from the Indian state, the Indian civilization since its inception up
to the present time. Veera talks of a different world hidden by the media not
much visible in the progressive secular literature. He claims that he derives
his world view from the lived experience of the wretched, including his own,
both in the village and the Mahanagar, rather than from any books or literary
sources because their existence is recorded nowhere. He even denies any direct
influence on him of Marx and Ambedkar. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He brings the
Dalit to the centre of his poetical act, the pain of being a Dalit as the
central fact. But he goes beyond Dalits to include all the poor and
marginalized, including women. He rejects the upper caste world altogether, its
success, its affluence, upward mobility, its literary aesthetics, eroticism and
romance. He keeps in mind the larger world of the marginalized India and
presents a comprehensive image of the rural Punjab. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p> In his poetry ‘<i>the
pain is as deep as the hurt</i>’: Jitni gehri chot utni gehri dard.</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>How you respond to his poetry is up to you, but listen to him
in the words of Pash, in one of his poems.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b> </b><b>LISTEN<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 1;">Listen to the music of our
hearth<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Listen to our cry laced with pain<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Listen to my wife’s requests<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Listen to my daughter’s demands<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 1;">Measure the poison in my bidi<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Listen to the drumbeat of my cough<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Listen to the cold sighs of my patched trousers<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Listen to the heartache of my worn-out shoes<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Listen to my silence<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Listen how I express myself<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And gauge the depth of my misery<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 1;">Listen to the arithmetic of my
rage<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 1;">Here is the corpse of my
civilized behaviour<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Listen to the music of the beast in me<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Listen to the song of the literate<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sung by the illiterate and the barbaric<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Whether you like it or not<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Listen to what we have to say<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">---<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">[A poem by Pash from his collection:<b> </b>U<i>d-dian Bbajan
Magar (1974)</i><b><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 1;">(After the Flying Hawks), translated
by me in <i>Pash, A Poet of Impossible Dreams,</i> Published in 2010.}<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">A few poems by Madan Veera translated by me from Punjabi. Please
bear with me for the poems may need further honing, even changes.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b><b style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></b><span dir="LTR" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"></span><b style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Nameless (from
Bhakhiya p11)</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">The
application form in my hands<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">is shaking
like a dry leaf<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">and my heart<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">is searching
for my own self<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">in my own
courtyard<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">The official
wants to know:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">The soil I
have sprouted from?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">My caste?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">My colour?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">My religion?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Another
column says:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Are you
Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Isaai<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Boddhi or
Jaini bhai?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">I’m a
resident <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">of this
raggle-taggle world<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">divided in
colours and races<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">splintered
into castes and religions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">yet I’m not
its citizen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">I have eyes,
features<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">yet I am
faceless<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Written on a
soiled form<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">with an
address<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">dirty and
smudged<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">I have a
name yet I am nameless<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">---<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Rebellious (from
Nabaran di Ibarat p 46)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">O brilliant
men of learning<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">drenched in
knowledge<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">great
scholars!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Let me
remain ignorant, unlettered<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Let me be an
illiterate pumice stone or just stone <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">I’m happy to
be artless<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">bereft of
colours and swings<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Keep it to
yourself</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">your Kav
Shastra<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">principles
of Rasa, rhyming tricks<span style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">your brand
of arts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">I don’t need
your sea of aesthetics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">the earth
divided into pigeonholes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">the sky the
size of an umbrella<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">So don’t
propose to me<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">new themes
for poetry<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">don’t
suggest <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">untouched and
virgin metaphors <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">I don’t need
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">the
uniqueness propounded by you<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">your frigid
and frightened originality<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">You high and
mighty! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">The words
that don’t smell<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">of my sweat<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">are meaningless
for me<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">The speech
that does not<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">exude the
heat of my blood and its warmth <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">is for me
empty<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">lowly and
worthless<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">I don’t set
beauty in words<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">I fight for
beauty<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Words are
not just words for me<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">They are
jehadis<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">fighting in
the battlefield of life<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Words are a
weapon for me <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">a shield<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">arrows <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">a sword<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">questions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Poetry for
me is <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">not just
poetry <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">but a
mission<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">----<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Gritty Irritant<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(from
Nabran di Ibarat p79)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">If chairs are deaf<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">so what<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">If the officer is blind<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">so what<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">You have a tongue<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">words<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">a voice<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">wings and flight<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">You are neither a tutored<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">gangaram<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">nor a willing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">slave<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">You are a smouldering fire<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">filled with lava<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Before you are swallowed <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">by your house’s four walls<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">or stricken by the bollworm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">of demands and duties<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">before the soil of your selfhood<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is eaten away by salinity<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">before it melts away bit by bit<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">come and speak out<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">become a roar<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">resound like a conch into the deaf
ears<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">become a gritty irritant in the
squinting eyes <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">---<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 0.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"> Fully Fledged Man’s Tale (from Nabaran di Ibarat p 48)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">When there was
talk of hunger<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">many bellies
were empty<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">When there was
talk of nakedness<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">many a stark
naked came forward<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">When there was
talk of livelihood<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">there was a
miles-and-miles long line of the unemployed<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">When there was
talk of a shelter<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">footpaths
became crowded<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">The answers to
all my questions <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">were right in
front of me <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">When the arrows
of questions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">pierced through
my body<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">in a burst of passion
I said:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">I’m one of you<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">your very own;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">enroll me<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">in your ranks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">They said:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">First tell us<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">are you the
head or torso<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">legs or feet…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">I kept on
saying<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">I’m a man <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">whole and
complete like you<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">not a head<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">or a torso <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">nor legs nor
feet<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">I am shouting<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">from the depths
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">of a bottomless
well<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">waiting for a
response<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">but the
peddlers of pure sanskriti<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">followers of
Manu<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">heirs of Baba
Nanak<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">remain deaf to
my appeals<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">and the words
of Kabir –<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Allah above all
‒<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">are blown to
smithereens<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>---<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span><b style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">5.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></b><span dir="LTR" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"></span><b style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Brackish
Waters (from Khaara Paani p 84)</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">I have
returned<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">from my
ancestral village<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">just as the
shadow<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">returns with
the body<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">A hundred
doubts resurface<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">together
with<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">an army of worries<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Unfulfillable
demands call forth<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Incurable
maladies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">lacerate the
soul<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">A few coins
to some one<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">False
promises to another<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">some cold
some brackish<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">I am playing
strange games<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">having returned
from the village<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">How should I
tell the village ‒<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">how should I<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">that the
city for me <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">is like a
beggar’s begging bowl<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">or the stale
weary and forced laughter<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">of a sleep-starved
girl in a call centre ‒<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">A bit of sugar
candy in brackish waters?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>---<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Faceless ( from
Khaara Paani p72)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">It’s true<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">a man does
not die<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">under the
weight of joblessness<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">He does
drown<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">in the waves
swelling<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">from home to
the employment office<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">like the
catastrophic tsunami<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">but does not
dissolve<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">The sun and the
moon and the stars<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">inside him
go down the horizon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">even before
they rise<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Joblessness
sucks bit by bit<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">every drop
of longing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">in the
wretched stomach<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Like the
little girl walking on the rope<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">life’s
string begins to wobble<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">The look on
the face<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">fades and
hollows out<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">The shine in
the glassy eyes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">dims and disappears<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Fine
feelings drown somewhere<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">when the partridge-winged
clouds of hope<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">neither
become a shade<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">nor a drop
of rain nor a shower<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Life then
becomes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">a faceless
image.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">---<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><b style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">7.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></b><span dir="LTR" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"></span><b style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">The Poet and
Poetry (from Khara Paani p 86)</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Today the poet looks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">helpless <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">like a grandmother<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">tired broken exhausted <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">begging, not for life, but death<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">deep in depression. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">He is stringing together a garland<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">of sterile stinking words<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">There is no warmth in them<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">There is no energy in their meanings<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Today the pen is not a sword<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">shining with a sharp edge<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">yet he is writing a poem.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Just as a mother<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">battered by poverty <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">is piecing together a shirt<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">for her elder son<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">out of his father’s worn-out shirt<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">that would have come to him <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">as a gift<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">but one that the younger one<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">has rejected and thrown away<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">refusing to wear it<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">The poem and the shirt <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">are so alike <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">how alike <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">may be unravelled by an expert…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Now or later <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">a reader would perhaps cast away<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">this shirt-like poem<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">pieced together with tired worn-out
words<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">after reading or without reading it<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">If he finds <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">no warmth no heat in it <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">he would find here<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">skilful use of words<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">in which the poet is absent<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>----<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Identity<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(from: Madan Veera di Kavita da Kav Shastra
p130)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">You are searching for my past<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">in books<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">on stone inscriptions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">in ruins <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">so that you can redefine<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">my existence<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">my identity<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">my ancestry…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">You are scanning books<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">that I have neither written<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">nor read <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">you are looking at stone
inscriptions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">that contain neither my defeat<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">nor my victory<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">you want to know about me from the
ruins<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">but I am a builder<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">how would the ruins know me?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Janab<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Remove your eye glasses<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Come out of libraries<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">forget the inscriptions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">forget the ruins<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Come, I will show you<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">the splendour of my blood<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">the fragrance of my sweat<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">the magic of my hands:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Look at the smooth roads<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">dams on silver-coloured canals<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">singing crops<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">brightly lit nights<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">milk white cities<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">neat and clean homes ‒<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">this has been my journey<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">from the Middle Ages<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">till today<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">But I<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">or my identity…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">On the ration card or voters’ list<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">my name is found there, you can see,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">as someone special something singular<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">I am an S C or an S T <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">for religion on the fifth step lower
down<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">unworthy of the society or a word of
abuse<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">an animal or a bumpkin or a thief<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">a terrorist, a Naxalite, or some
other<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">But I…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">What about me?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">before I was trapped in the crisis
of identity<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">I have been undone by the struggle
for life<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">and in your words <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">I have walked out or been cast out <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">from the so-called ‘mainstream’. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">---<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">9.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Rising India (from Nabran di Ibarat p 58)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">India is rising<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">in newspapers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">in sarkari advertisements<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">in the few smooth shining faces<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">While crores of people in the
country<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">are sinking<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">India is rising<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">The minions of Rajdhani<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">are digging up mountains<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">sprucing up places<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">by hiding garbage and filth<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">A cocktail of slogans<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">is being cooked up<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">a crowd of promises has descended<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">like a swarm of locusts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">How can promises<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">change the fortunes of the poor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">There is darkness <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">in the houses of the poor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">the dawn is miles away<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">yet India is rising<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">The army of dyed jackals is on the
march<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">having had fun for five years<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">stealing tears from crocodiles <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">hiding their crookedness<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">under titbits<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">yet India is rising<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Old players who have to play<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">a long innings<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">are on the move<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">with folded hands<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">The game of pulls and pushes is on<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">but India is rising<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">The knives’ edges would shine<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">The bloody daggers would flash <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Forces are being readied<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">for the decisive battle<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">for the chairs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">to rob people<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">to defeat them<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">yet India is rising<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>---<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">10. MY India-Your India (from Nabran di
Ibarat p 91)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">That India was yours not mine<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">only yours<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">the one that was the golden sparrow<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">My India<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">my India even then was <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">a bog of sufferings<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">a land of hunger<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">a kicking footpath<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">writhing-yearning for relief<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">a mud street of a village<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>filthy lane a broken broom<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">That India is not mine but yours<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">only yours<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">that has inherited glory<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">honour and pride<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">where every page is brightly lit<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">each word is filled with light</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">My India<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">my India is the tip of a thorn<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">a bed of spikes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">sullied dignity and a baffled mind<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">a branded forehead<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">a document printed in blood<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">That India is only yours not mine<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">only yours<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">the one that is a haven for Rishis<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">playground for fairies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">the court of Indra<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">the conclave for thirty-three crore
gods<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>drenched in fragrance<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">resplendent in colours<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">My India<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">my India is the tale <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">of broken homes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">and woodworm eaten doors<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">a building that crashed<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">before it was raised<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">That India was yours not mine<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">only yours<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">on whose chest<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">the firangis had ridden<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">the ruler of the times was blind<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">was deaf<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">and the wound on the chest was deep<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">I have been pulled and pushed<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">from generation to generation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">by those inside and those from
outside<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">have been robbed at every step<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">and used and abused… <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">That India was not mine was yours<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">only yours<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">that became free in’47<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">it was uprooted<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">but it was rehabilitated<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">My India still bears chains<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">on its feet<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">bears lines of tears on its face<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">is dressed in rags<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">like beggars<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Its Ranjhas have been exiled <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">from Takhat Hazara to the mound of Balnath
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Its Heers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">have been forced out <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">from their homes in Jhang and among the
Khedas <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">The darling star in the eyes of the
world<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">the lighthouse to enlighten the
world ‒<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">that India is only yours <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">My India<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">My India is still<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">a dark and terrifying night<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">For the high castes it is low caste<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Helpless at every step<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">desperate at every turn<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">an unanswered question longer than
life<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">----<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6544824679561075120.post-28001916368532811922021-12-08T14:44:00.000+05:302021-12-08T14:44:23.055+05:30GULLIVER'S FIFTH VOYAGE: A SEQUEL<p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><p></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span><b><span><span style="font-size: medium;">Here is the cover of my new book </span></span></b></span><b><span style="font-size: medium;">which is a sequel </span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;">to </span></b></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> Jonathan Swift's <i>Gulliver's Travels.</i></span></b></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></b></p></div><p><b><span></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><b><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhBRJmOQhrPAWNUD6Gyog9OJbuNlCQK6FL0sVZw-WvcPXzbumVQrS27NdtKepQ9JLNUQmRO9piiF3sIkNvqSV4ih-qcxOmXASRVm7UKsePB-Vs4GmzpuupjBxAm49coUPaCl9yUcVPssRnQHAL3rQxIKNql9chM814qoSKJE6cSe3UT7kBOBXSG-E1l=s2048" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhBRJmOQhrPAWNUD6Gyog9OJbuNlCQK6FL0sVZw-WvcPXzbumVQrS27NdtKepQ9JLNUQmRO9piiF3sIkNvqSV4ih-qcxOmXASRVm7UKsePB-Vs4GmzpuupjBxAm49coUPaCl9yUcVPssRnQHAL3rQxIKNql9chM814qoSKJE6cSe3UT7kBOBXSG-E1l=w480-h640" width="480" /></a></span></b></div><b><span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjZDCMeNd-P58C_tg6HzuqF-LbElfy2l6io7-vbEtC8aKXKEzmV8kNAnSGvicF48WE32Aeo1nAcfTl7lmGd1kwUpTtoSQ-TGwvfInuEIAAwxL4wKQkReCIvfwgvfUcbs3UmvWff39s5g80iQPTbW_l5vQBOpwB-TxKgSmZHZm2XvpKj4WB_vmrnX-Tp=s2048" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjZDCMeNd-P58C_tg6HzuqF-LbElfy2l6io7-vbEtC8aKXKEzmV8kNAnSGvicF48WE32Aeo1nAcfTl7lmGd1kwUpTtoSQ-TGwvfInuEIAAwxL4wKQkReCIvfwgvfUcbs3UmvWff39s5g80iQPTbW_l5vQBOpwB-TxKgSmZHZm2XvpKj4WB_vmrnX-Tp=w480-h640" width="480" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></b><p></p><p><br /></p><div>Here are the links to buy the book online:<br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://aakarbooks.com/details.php?bid%3D1074&source=gmail&ust=1639035220755000&usg=AOvVaw3VpfX8dletPQzfnqYTH29v" href="https://aakarbooks.com/details.php?bid=1074" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://aakarbooks.com/<wbr></wbr>details.php?bid=1074</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.amazon.in/dp/9350027313?ref%3Dmyi_title_dp&source=gmail&ust=1639035220755000&usg=AOvVaw0WPs7HwDBvj8Acu7U842qR" href="https://www.amazon.in/dp/9350027313?ref=myi_title_dp" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.in/dp/<wbr></wbr>9350027313?ref=myi_title_dp</a></div><div><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Hope the book would interest the readers. </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">T C Ghai</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Author</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6544824679561075120.post-42235768042559454992021-09-30T20:28:00.000+05:302021-09-30T20:28:08.483+05:30A Few Hindi poems<p> </p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>मेरी कुच्छ हिंदी कविताएं</b></span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><span style="font-size: large;">प्रेमचंद
के लोगों का महानगरी</span></span></b><span style="font-size: large;"><b>करण</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><b>इस महान महानगर
में<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><b>जिसे विश्वस्त्रीय
नगर बनने की लालसा है<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><b>मुझे एक सुरक्षित
सैरगाह मिल गई है<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><b>नगर में निरन्तर
चल रही गाड़ियों की भीड़ से<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><b>एक-सौ-पचास
मीटर लम्बी एक ओर से बन्द सड़क की टुकड़ी<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><b>जिस के एक ओर
पतली-सी हरित पट्टी<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><b>दूसरी ओर
एक हाउसिंग सोसाईटी की ऊंची दीवार<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><b> </b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><b>यह सड़क की टुकड़ी
आबाद है पर शांत<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><b>आधी ग़ैर कानूनी
पार्किंग बन गई है<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><b>दो दर्जन टैक्सियों
और ट्रकों के लिए<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><b>उन के ड्राईवर
सुस्ताते बतियाते हुए<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><b> </b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><b>सड़क की एक पटरी
पर कूड़े और कबाड़ का ढेर<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><b>मैट्रो ऐमसीडी
पड़ौसी आबादी का जुटाया हुआ<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><b>बेकार तख़्ते
बांस पाईप प्लासटिक के टुकड़े<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><b>टूटी-फूटी गंदी
प्लासटिक की बोतलें बालटियां खिलौने थैले बग़ैरा<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><b>सड़क की दूसरी
पटरी पर एक दर्जन मज़दूरों के परिवार<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif">जो अतिआधूनिक
मैट्रौ </span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">प्रौजैक्ट</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI">
</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif">में काम करते हैं<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><b>उनकी झुग्गीयां
कबाड़ को जोड़-तोड़ कर बनाई हुई<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><b>ईटें तख्ते
लोहे की जंगीली चादरें प्लासटिक शीट आदि मिला कर<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><a name="_Hlk41223805"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif">झुग्गियों</span></a><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"> के सामने सड़क पर उनके सफ़ाई से लिपे मिट्टी
के चूल्हे<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><b>लकड़ी के छोटे-छोटे
ढेर जो शायद हरित पटट्टी से इकट्ठे किये गए हैं<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><b>लंगड़ाती चारपाईआं
झूले पेड़ों की टहनियों से लटकते<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><b>घिसे पलाईवुड
के टुकड़ों को कीलों से जोड़ कर बनाये पटड़े<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><b>टूटी-फूटी मैली-कुचैली
प्लासटिक की बालटियां बोतलें <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><b>पानी भरने के
लिये जो न जाने कहां से लाया गया है<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><b> </b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif">काले शरीर वाले
पुरुष मैली-कुचैली धो</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">धोतियां</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI">
</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif">पैन्ट कच्छे पहने<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><b>अपनी झुग्गियों
के आगे उदासीन बैठे दिन भर की कवायत के बाद<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><b>एक चूहले के
लिये लकड़ी चीरता हुआ<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif">औरतें - दुबली-पतली
कुपोषित शायद </span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">सालों</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI">
</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif">सेअनधुली साड़ियां पहने<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><b>रोटियां सेंकती
पत्थर पर मिरची पीसतीं<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><b>अपने आप को
या गोदी में लिटाए बच्चे को पंखा झेलतीं<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif">या निशचल बैठी
या बतियाने </span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">में</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI">
</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif">मग्न<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><b>अपने अन्य बच्चों
की निगरानी करती हुई<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><b>जो सड़क के बीचों-बीच जो उन का आंगन है खेल रहे<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><b>गंदे टूटे खिलौंनो
से या क्रिकट कबाड़ की लकड़ी से बैट और विकट बना कर<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><b> </b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><b>उस सड़क के बीचों-बीच चलते मुझे लगता है <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><b>मैं उन के निजी
जीवन में </b></span><b>दख़लअंदाज़ी कर रहा हूं</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><b> </b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><b>पर वे हैं कौंन?<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><b> </b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><b>सहसा मेरे मन
में ख़्याल उठता है<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><b>क्या प्रेमचन्द
के हल्कू घीसू </b></span><b>झुरिया होरी धनिया</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><b>मंगल दुखी सोना
आदि सभ इस महान नगर के नागरिक बन गए हैं<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><b>और ले आए हैं
अपने साथ अपनी जान अपने हाथ पैर<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><b>अपने थके हुए
शरीर जो उनकी पूंजी है<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><b>और इस सभ कुछ
को गिरबी रख दिया है<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><b>अपने नए मालिकों
नए ठाकरों ज़मीदारों साहुकारों के हाथ<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><b>नवीन अतिआधूनिक
मैट्रौ बनाने के लिए<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><b>इस मंहानगर
की शान के लिए<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><b>और इस महान
देश के गौरव के लिए<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><b> </b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><b>और आजकल यह
सड़क की टुकड़ी बन गई है<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><b>मेरी हर शाम
की सैरगाह<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">उन</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI">
</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif">की लग़तार </span>सवाल<span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"> करती आँखों
के बावजूद</span></b></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><b> --- <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b><span lang="HI" style="font-family: "Mangal",serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></b><span style="font-size: large;"><b>मुसाफ़िर</b></span></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">मैं इस मंहानगरी में</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">जो देश की राजधानी है</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">पचास वर्षों से टिका हुंआ हॣं</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">एक अजनवी की तरह</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">मैं पैदा हुआ अपने ननिहाल में</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">पिता का घर कहीं और था</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">मां के क़सवे में पढ़ाई शुरू की</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">फिर वहां से निकलना पड़ा</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">पंहुचा कभी वहां कभी वहां</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">जहां फ़ौजी पिता की नौकरी ले गई</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">कहां से कहां गया पढ़ाई के लिए</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">फ़िर नौकरी के लिए </span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">कभी इस कभी उस शहर</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">जो दोस्त बने वहीं छूट गए</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">या मुझ से कहीं दूर चले गए</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-bidi-language: HI;"><b>फ़िर आख़िर अटक गया इस महांनगरी में<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;">एक किराए के मकान में</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;">हर तीसरे-चौथे साल किसी और मकान में</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;">शादी की बच्चे पैदा किए पाले बड़े किए
पढ़ाए</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;">फ़िर वे इस शहर को छोड़ कहीं और बस
गए</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;">रिटाइर होने के क़रीब</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;">एक घर बना लिया</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;">जिस में मैं अपनी पत्नि के साथ रहता
हूं</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;">पर अब भी लगता है मैं यहां किराएदार
हूं</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;">इसे </span></b><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;">छोड़</span></b><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;"> कर फ़िर चल दूं गा कहीं दूर</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;">एक मुसाफ़िर की तरह</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;">सोचता हूं हैरान भी हूं</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;">लोग कैसे किसी शहर को</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;">अपना बना लेते हैं</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>---<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-weight: bold; mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b> </b></span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="font-size: large; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;"><b>काश मैं भी उन जैसा हो पाता</b></span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-weight: bold; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;">जनवरी की धॣप में लेटा हॣं छत पर</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;">कुरसी पर टांगे फ़ैलाए</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;">उन गली के कुत्तों की तरह</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;"><b>जो पटरी पर या पार्क में पसरे पड़े हैं<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;">स्निग्ध धूप का आनंद लेते हुए</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;">साफ़ नीले आसमान <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>के नीचे </span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;">कबूतर बैठे हैं यहां वहां </span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;">या उड़ाने भर रहे हैं इधर उधर</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;">दूर ऊपर तीन चार चीलें हवा में तैर
रही हैं</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;">विशाल गोले बनाती हुई मस्ती में</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;">एक मैंना का जोड़ा मुँडेर पर पड़े </span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;">मिट्टी के बर्तन से पानी पी रहा है</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;">इधर उधर देख कर </span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;">बस दो तीन चोंच भर</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;">एक मक्खी मेरा चेहरा टटोल रही है</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;"><b>अपनी बालों से महीन टांगों पर चलती<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;">सहसा धूप से ध्यान हटता है</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;">सड़क पर चल रही गाड़ियों के शोर से</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;">जो मन को झकझोर देता है</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;"><b>ज़माने भर की उलझनों से<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;">पर यह कुत्ते यह पक्शी यह मक्खी</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;">निश्चिंत हैं हर मानवी प्रशनों से</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;">उन्हें कया लेना है</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;">कौन प्रधानमन्त्री है</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;">वह तानाशाह है या उदार</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;">अगला चुनाव कौन जीते गा हारे गा</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;">पढ़ौसी देश से मित्रता हो गी या शत्रुता</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;">उन्हें क्या लेना है</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;">कौन ग़रीब है कौनअमीर</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;">न्याय क्या हैअन्याय क्या है</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;"><br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;">उन्हें क्या लेना है</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;">व्यपार बाज़ार आयात निर्यात </span></b><b>से</b><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;">श्यर बाज़ार में उतार चढ़ाव</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;">भूख बीमारी युध्द शान्ती</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;"><b>राष्ट्र जाति धर्म भाषा के नाम पर नरसंघार <o:p></o:p></b></span><b>से</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;">उन्हें क्या लेना है</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;"><b>इन्सान की बनाई बिगाड़ी दुनिया से<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;"><b><br /></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;"><b>काश मैं भी उन जैसा <a name="_Hlk64725987">हो पाता <o:p></o:p></a></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk64725987;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;">इन सभ उलझनों को भुला कर!</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk64725987;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<b><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk64725987;"></span>
</b><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>---<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="font-size: large; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;"> हम पत्थर
क्यों नहीं हो गए</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;">हम पत्थर क्यों नहीं हो गए</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">,
</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;">या उस से भी कठोर</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;">इस नाकाबन्दी को देख कर</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;">इन भारीभरकम लोहे-पत्थर में ढले शहतीरों
को</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;">इन लच्छेदार कंटीले तारों के जाल को</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;">इन सड़क के आरपार खोदी खाईयों को</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;">और इन लंम्बे-तीख़े सरियों की क़तारों
को देख कर</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;">जो हमारी आंखों में चुभ रही हैं</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;">क्या यह उन के अवचेतन मन की गहराईयों
से </span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;"><b>फूट कर निकली मन की बात हैं </b><span style="font-size: large;">?</span></span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-weight: bold; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;">इन्हें देख हम पत्थर क्यों नहीं हो
गए</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;">पर हम तो पहले ही पत्थर हो चुके थे
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;">‒</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;">अंधी बहरी गूंगी मूर्तियां</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;">पर यह प्रतीक तो घिसे-पिटे हैं</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;">वे शब्द कहां हैं यह बतलाने के लिए
कि</span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="HI" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HI;"><b>हम क्या हो गए हैं </b><span style="font-size: large;">?</span></span><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><b> </b></span><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>---<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6544824679561075120.post-33660155163471916832021-07-31T16:28:00.001+05:302021-07-31T16:28:38.042+05:30A Tribute to Milkha Singh, the Flying Sikh <p> </p><p><br /></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Milkha Singh, the Flying Sikh (1929-2021)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>Perhaps the
best way to pay a attribute to Milkha Singh, the Flying Sikh, is to quote the
opening two paragraphs of his autobiography in Punjabi, <i>Fying Sikh:Milkha
Singh – Autobiography (1974)</i> which he, it is said, wrote with help from the
Punjabi revolutionary poet Pash (Avtar Singh Sandhu 1950-88) who was shot down
by militants. <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>These two
paragraphs are sheer poetry of the highest order. One is really amazed at a
sportsperson’s understanding of one’s own self and the nature of world-class
competitions like the Olympic games. He is not only aware of the miraculous
emergence of life over an immeasurable span of time but also the momentariness
of individual human life. At the same time, he is capable of understanding the
immense possibilities hidden in the brief lifespan of a <i>tiny</i> being called man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p><b></b></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-RLSYyYovDlM/YQUpJpSBajI/AAAAAAAABaY/DvtFT4fdVNIREGKlv3BnutFL5IzEDgFpACLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1272" data-original-width="900" height="640" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-RLSYyYovDlM/YQUpJpSBajI/AAAAAAAABaY/DvtFT4fdVNIREGKlv3BnutFL5IzEDgFpACLcBGAsYHQ/w453-h640/image.png" width="453" /></a></b></span></div><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b><br /><br /></b></span></div><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b><br /><br /></b></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p><b><br /></b></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Here is my translation of the two paragraphs into English.</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p><b><br /></b></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p><b><br /></b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-size: large;">A Broken
Childhood</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Emergence
of life on this earth is perhaps the greatest miracle to happen on this planet.
In this game played by innumerable stars, planets and suns since infinite times,
man is just a tiny player. Yet in each and every beat of the human heart reside
infinite strength, swiftness and possibilities. It is not necessary that the
person who can understand and internalize in his soul this secret of Nature
should be Milkha Singh; he can be anyone else.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">This
game of life did not begin with me, nor will it end with me. The heart in my
body has throbbed in this vast stadium only for a brief period out of just one
century; and one day I shall quietly walk out of this stadium leaving behind
other players engrossed in their astounding feats. </span><o:p></o:p></b></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>The tribute
is somewhat belated. That is because I had been trying to get hold of this
autobiography published long back and is now out of print. Some people have said
that the prose in the autobiography has the stamp of Pash’s prose. That may be,
but the thoughts expressed in these lines can occur only to a sportsperson who
has taken part in competitions with the world’s best and knows that he is
competing with the finest sportspersons of the world and winning or losing does
not diminish any of them. The winner can be any one not necessarily Milkha
Singh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>Those interested in reading these
paragraphs in original can find them here below.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-S2ySp-SXXmc/YQUkNtugX2I/AAAAAAAABaA/pIf7NaF5gg4WkO-s58kVz4zojj6c3hB_ACLcBGAsYHQ/IMG_20210731_154423.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="2048" height="500" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-S2ySp-SXXmc/YQUkNtugX2I/AAAAAAAABaA/pIf7NaF5gg4WkO-s58kVz4zojj6c3hB_ACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h500/IMG_20210731_154423.JPG" width="640" /></a></b></div><b><br /><br /></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>Here is the link to read the full autobiography:<p></p><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><a href="https://paash.wordpress.com/2010/03/29/flying-sikh-milkha-singh-autobiography/">Flying Sikh Milkha Singh-Autobiography | Paash (wordpress.com)</a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6544824679561075120.post-69584041076157206912021-06-16T11:31:00.000+05:302021-06-16T11:31:04.852+05:30Guchhi गुच्छी (The Morel ) A poem <p><b>Here is a Hindi poem titled गुच्छी (Guchhi) by Dr <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;">Satyanaren Snehi who teaches Hindi at Govt College Sanjoli, Shimla Hills in Himachal Pradesh. This very interesting poem has been extracted from his collection </span><span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;"><i>इंटरनैट पर मेरा गाँव</i> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;"> ( My Village on the Internet</span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;">) </i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;">published in 2020 by Prakashan</span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;"> </i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;">Sansthaan New Delhi, It was sent to me by </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;">Dr Suresh who teaches English at a college in Theog , Shimla Hills. I have translated this poem into English.</span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;"><b>A brief introduction to the subject of this poem won't be out of place. </b></span></p><p><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;">Guchhi </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">(<a><span style="color: #444444;">Morchella</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">), or the morel, </span></span>is a rare mushroom, which in India is collected in the wild mainly in Kashmir and Himachal hills. It is a delicacy, excellent and delicious in taste, and has tremendous nutritional and medicinal value It can be used both in fresh and dried state but it must be cooked before eating. Eating it raw is harmful. And because it is rare and so valuable as food and health booster it is very expensive. One kilogram of dried morels may cost between Rupees 20,000/ to 40,000/, depending on the quality! </b></p><p><b>Enjoy reading the poem and imagine the taste of a dish prepared using morels. And read more about morels. </b></p><div><!--[endif]--><div><!--[if !supportAnnotations]-->
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="HI" style="font-family: "Mangal",serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">जिन्नहें नहीं मिलता</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="HI" style="font-family: "Mangal",serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">भर पेट अन्न</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="HI" style="font-family: "Mangal",serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">वे पोटली में बाँदकर सूखी
रोटी</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="HI" style="font-family: "Mangal",serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">सुबह से शाम</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="HI" style="font-family: "Mangal",serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">ढूँढते हैं गुच्छी</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="HI" style="font-family: "Mangal",serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><b>घनघोर जंगल में<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="HI" style="font-family: "Mangal",serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">गरीब की रोज़ी</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="HI" style="font-family: "Mangal",serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">अमीर की रोटी</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="HI" style="font-family: "Mangal",serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> हर साल खास मौसम में</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="HI" style="font-family: "Mangal",serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">उगती है एक बार </span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="HI" style="font-family: "Mangal",serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><b>बीहबान जंगलों में<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="HI" style="font-family: "Mangal",serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><b> </b></span></p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="HI" style="font-family: "Mangal",serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">वे नहीं जानते</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="HI" style="font-family: "Mangal",serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">गुच्छी का स्वाद</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="HI" style="font-family: "Mangal",serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">गुच्छी के असली दाम</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="HI" style="font-family: "Mangal",serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">झोले से प्लेट में</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="HI" style="font-family: "Mangal",serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">पहुंचते ही गुच्छी</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="HI" style="font-family: "Mangal",serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">भूख नहीं मिटाती</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="HI" style="font-family: "Mangal",serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">ताकत बढ़ाती है</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="HI" style="font-family: "Mangal",serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">गुचछी प्रतिफल है </span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="HI" style="font-family: "Mangal",serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">जमीनी और मौसमी </span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="HI" style="font-family: "Mangal",serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">हरकतों का</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="HI" style="font-family: "Mangal",serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">जिस के नहीं होते बीज</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="HI" style="font-family: "Mangal",serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">नहीं होती काशतकारी</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="HI" style="font-family: "Mangal",serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><b> </b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="HI" style="font-family: "Mangal",serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">जबकि </span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="HI" style="font-family: "Mangal",serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">आदमी पहुंच गया है</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="HI" style="font-family: "Mangal",serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">मंगल पर</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="HI" style="font-family: "Mangal",serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">समेट ली है सारी धरती</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="HI" style="font-family: "Mangal",serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">मुट्ठ्टी में</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="HI" style="font-family: "Mangal",serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">खोज लिये हैं</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="HI" style="font-family: "Mangal",serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">सृष्टि के कण-कण</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="HI" style="font-family: "Mangal",serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">गुच्छी एक पहेली है </span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="HI" style="font-family: "Mangal",serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">उगा नहीं सका आदमी </span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="HI" style="font-family: "Mangal",serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">अभी तक</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="HI" style="font-family: "Mangal",serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">इस का एक बीज</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>---<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="HI" style="font-family: "Mangal",serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">'इंटरनैट पर मेरा गाँव' से</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><b> ----</b></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><b> <span style="font-size: large;"> My translation</span></b></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Guchchi (The Morel)</span><o:p style="font-size: 14pt;"></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: times;">They who cannot get<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: times;"><b>
enough to eat<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: times;"><b>
bundle up dry bread in a small
bag<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: times;"><b>
and go into dense forests <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: times;"><b>
in
search of morels <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: times;"><b>
morning to evening.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: times;"><b> </b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: times;"><b>
Livelihood for the poor <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: times;"><b> a
delicacy for the rich;<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: times;"><b>
the morel grows <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: times;"><b>
in a particular season<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: times;"><b>
only once a year<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: times;"><b>
in forbidding forests. <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: times;"><b>
<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: times;"><b>
The poor don’t know <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: times;"><b>
the taste of morels<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: times;"><b> their real value. <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: times;"><b> The morel goes<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: times;"><b>
from the bag to the plate<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: times;"><b></b></span></p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: times;"><b> not to alleviate hunger;<o:p></o:p></b></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: times;"><b>
but to act as a body booster.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: times;"><b> </b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: times;"><b>
The morel is the product <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: times;"><b>
of interaction between the soil and environment; <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: times;"><b>
it has no seed <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: times;"><b>
it can’t be sown. <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: times;"><b></b></span></p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: times;"><b> <o:p></o:p></b></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: times;"><b>
Although man has reached the
Mars <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: times;"><b>
enclosed the whole earth<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: times;"><b>
in his fist <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: times;"><b>
and explored every particle of the Creation<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: times;"><b>
the morel is still an unsolved riddle: <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: times;"><b>
humans haven’t been able to grow<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: times;"><b>
till now<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: times;"><b>
even a single morel seed.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-family: times;"> ---</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><b>From: <i>Internet Par Mera Gaon</i> (My
Village on the Internet)<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><b>by<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Satyanaren Snehi<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zixUvKMYahA/YMh4b3VZ7YI/AAAAAAAABX8/st-ANJ1-syAWLsEWINIQpnEX71tR9vHCACLcBGAsYHQ/s980/Morel-mushrooms-Thinkstock.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="735" data-original-width="980" height="478" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zixUvKMYahA/YMh4b3VZ7YI/AAAAAAAABX8/st-ANJ1-syAWLsEWINIQpnEX71tR9vHCACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h478/Morel-mushrooms-Thinkstock.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><br /><b>source:<br /></b></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b>https://townsquare.media/site/675/files/2017/05/Morel-mushrooms-Thinkstock.jpg?w=980&q=75</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><b> </b></span></p></div><br /><p></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6544824679561075120.post-15771564761519223672021-03-23T17:48:00.001+05:302023-04-29T10:36:02.679+05:30Bhagat Singh's Martyrdom Day<p> <b><span style="font-size: large;">Friends,</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">Here is the momentous news from <i>The Tribune of </i>25 March 1931 on the three revolutionaries who were executed on 23 March 1931.This priceless cutting has been sent to me by Dr (Prof) Ramakant Agnihotri. I thankfully reproduce it here. With one addition after it.</span></b></p><p><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-8pF3f_7A2go/YFnQPlY9f3I/AAAAAAAABUg/aJloPNyugDsyjD0qurh50ucoHZyeTT7swCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="978" height="640" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-8pF3f_7A2go/YFnQPlY9f3I/AAAAAAAABUg/aJloPNyugDsyjD0qurh50ucoHZyeTT7swCLcBGAsYHQ/w488-h640/image.png" width="488" /></a><i><br /></i><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">Very interestingly, Pash (Avatar Singh Sandhu) (1950-88) a revolutionary poet emerging out of the Naxalite movement in Punjab in the seventies of the last century, a great admirer of Bhagat Singh, was shot dead along with his friend Hans Raj by Khalistani militants on 23 March1988, the day of Bhagat Singh's martyrdom. Here is my translation of a Punjabi poem by Pash which appeared in his first collection of poetry <i>Loh Katha (1970).</i></span></b></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>BHARAT <o:p></o:p></i></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span lang="EN-US"><b> </b></span><b>Bharat –</b></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>So deserving of my highest reverence!<o:p></o:p></i></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Whenever this name is uttered<o:p></o:p></i></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>all other names become meaningless.<o:p></o:p></i></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>This name owes its essence<o:p></o:p></i></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>to those who toil in the fields,<o:p></o:p></i></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>and still measure time <o:p></o:p></i></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>by the length of shadows.<o:p></o:p></i></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>They have no other concerns<o:p></o:p></i></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>except their bellies, <o:p></o:p></i></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>and when they are hungry<o:p></o:p></i></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>they can chew their own limbs.<o:p></o:p></i></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>For them life is an empty ritual<o:p></o:p></i></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>and death a release.<o:p></o:p></i></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Whenever someone talks<o:p></o:p></i></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>of the oneness of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></i></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>I feel like tossing up his cap,<o:p></o:p></i></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>and telling him:<o:p></o:p></i></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>The spirit of Bharat resides<o:p></o:p></i></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>not in some Dushyant<o:p></o:p></i></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>but in the fields<o:p></o:p></i></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>where peasants grow food<o:p></o:p></i></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>and robbers break in…<o:p></o:p></i></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>--- <o:p></o:p></i></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i> </i></span></b></span></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoHeader"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i> T C Ghai</i></span></b></span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6544824679561075120.post-12302024155106194422021-01-06T11:42:00.000+05:302021-01-06T11:42:27.043+05:30Faiz Ahmed Faiz: three poems<p><b><span style="font-size: large;"> Friends, Here are three poems by Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1911-1984) translated by me. One of these was written in Punjabi and addressed to Punjabi farmers. The other two have been translated from Urdu, and are among his best known poems. The poems are presented in Devanagri script followed by my English translations. The poem addressed to the Punjabi farmer has also been presented in Gurmukhi script.</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">The poem <i>Tanhaai</i> seems to have some similarities with or reflection of Walter de la Mare's two poems presented after the three poems. Is the similarity incidental? Remember Faiz was a student and then teacher of English literature in the pre-partition India. Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) belonged to a group of poets named Georgian poets majority of whom flourished in the first two decades of the twentieth century. I imagine Faiz must have read Walter de la Mare. But his great poem has a cultural, metaphorical and contextual originality and scintillating rhythm all its own.</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">The other two poems, '</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>T</i></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;"><i>oday, Come to the Marketplace in Fetters </i>and</span></b><b style="font-size: x-large; font-style: italic;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p><span> '</span></o:p></span></b><b style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US"><span><i>A Song for the Punjabi Farmer' </i>are revolutionary in intent.</span></span></b><b style="font-size: x-large;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="color: maroon;"> </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">1.</span></b></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3;"><a name="Naqsh37"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Mangal",serif; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">तनहा</span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ई</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">फिर</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">कोई</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">आया</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">दिल</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">-</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ए</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">-</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ज़ार</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">नहीं</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">कोई</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">नहीं</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><br />
</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">राहरौ</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">होगा</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">, </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">कहीं</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">और</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">चला</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">जायेगा</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><br />
</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ढल</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">चुकी</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">रात</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">, </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">बिखरने</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">लगा</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">तारों</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">का</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ग़ुबार</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><br />
</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">लड़खड़ाने</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">लगे</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ऐवानों</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">में</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ख़्वाबीदः</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">चिराग़</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><br />
</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">सो</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">गई</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">रस्तः</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">तक</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">-</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">तक</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">के</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">हरइक</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">राहगुज़ार</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><br />
</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">अजनबी</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ख़ाक</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ने</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">धुँदला</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">दिये</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">क़दमों</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">के</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">सुराग़</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><br />
</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">गुल</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">करो</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">शम्एँ</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">, </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">बढ़ा</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">दो</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">मय</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">-</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ओ</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">-</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">मीना</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">-</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ओ</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">-</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">अयाग़</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><br />
</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">अपने</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">बे</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">-</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ख़्वाब</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">किवाड़ों</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">को</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">मुक़फ़्फ़ल</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">कर</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">लो</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><br />
</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">अब</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">यहाँ</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">कोई</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">नहीं</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">, </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">कोई</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">नहीं</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">आयेगा</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"><span style="background: rgb(244, 250, 255); color: black; font-size: 15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: Naqsh37;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>---<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: x-large;"><o:p> </o:p></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: x-large;">Loneliness</span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">Did someone
come, sad heart? No, no one<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">Must be a
traveler, bound for somewhere<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">The night has
melted, the stardust is fading<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">In the
mansions the sleepy lamps are wearing out<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">Pathways have
gone to sleep ‒ waiting, waiting…<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">The unwitting
dust has buried the stamp of footsteps<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">Blow out the lamps,
put away the wine, the cup, the goblet<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">Lock the doors
of your sleepless eyes<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">No one, no one
will come here now </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>---<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> 2.</o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="line-height: 21pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a name="आज_बाज़ार_में_पा-ब-जौलाँ_चलो"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="color: maroon;">आज</span></b></a><span style="mso-bookmark: आज_बाज़ार_में_पा-ब-जौलाँ_चलो;"><b><span face=""CDAC-GISTSurekh",serif" style="color: maroon; mso-bidi-font-family: Mangal;"> </span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: आज_बाज़ार_में_पा-ब-जौलाँ_चलो;"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="color: maroon;">बाज़ार</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: आज_बाज़ार_में_पा-ब-जौलाँ_चलो;"><b><span face=""CDAC-GISTSurekh",serif" style="color: maroon; mso-bidi-font-family: Mangal;"> </span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: आज_बाज़ार_में_पा-ब-जौलाँ_चलो;"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="color: maroon;">में</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: आज_बाज़ार_में_पा-ब-जौलाँ_चलो;"><b><span face=""CDAC-GISTSurekh",serif" style="color: maroon; mso-bidi-font-family: Mangal;"> </span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: आज_बाज़ार_में_पा-ब-जौलाँ_चलो;"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="color: maroon;">पा</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: आज_बाज़ार_में_पा-ब-जौलाँ_चलो;"><b><span face=""CDAC-GISTSurekh",serif" style="color: maroon; mso-bidi-font-family: Mangal;">-</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: आज_बाज़ार_में_पा-ब-जौलाँ_चलो;"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="color: maroon;">ब</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: आज_बाज़ार_में_पा-ब-जौलाँ_चलो;"><b><span face=""CDAC-GISTSurekh",serif" style="color: maroon; mso-bidi-font-family: Mangal;">-</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: आज_बाज़ार_में_पा-ब-जौलाँ_चलो;"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="color: maroon;">जौलाँ</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: आज_बाज़ार_में_पा-ब-जौलाँ_चलो;"><b><span face=""CDAC-GISTSurekh",serif" style="color: maroon; mso-bidi-font-family: Mangal;"> </span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: आज_बाज़ार_में_पा-ब-जौलाँ_चलो;"><b><span face=""Nirmala UI",sans-serif" style="color: maroon;">चलो</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: आज_बाज़ार_में_पा-ब-जौलाँ_चलो;"></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Mangal",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: black; font-family: "Mangal",serif; font-size: large;">चश्मे-नम
जाने-शोरीदा काफ़ी नहीं<br />
तोहमते-इश्क़ पोशीदा काफ़ी नहीं<br />
आज बाज़ार में पा-ब-जौलाँ चलो<br />
दस्त-अफ्शाँ चलो, मस्तो-रक़्साँ चलो<br />
ख़ाक़-बर-सर चलो, ख़ूँ-ब-दामाँ चलो<br />
राह तकता है सब शहरे-जानाँ चलो<br />
हाकिमे-शहर भी, मजम'ए-आम भी<br />
तीरे-इल्ज़ाम भी, संगे-दुश्नाम भी<br />
सुबहे-नाशाद भी, रोज़े-नाकाम भी<br />
इनका दमसाज़ अपने सिवा कौन है<br />
शहरे-जानाँ में अब बा-सफ़ा कौन है<br />
दस्त-ए-क़ातिल के शायाँ रहा कौन है<br />
रख़्ते-दिल बाँध लो दिलफ़िगारो चलो<br />
फिर हमीं क़त्ल हो आएँ यारो चलो<br />
आज बाज़ार में पा-ब-जौलाँ चलो<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>---</span><o:p style="font-size: 14pt;"></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span><b style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: x-large;">Today, Come to the Marketplace in Fetters</span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">Not enough the wet eyes, the angst-ridden life<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">Not enough the accusations of secret love<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">Today, come to the marketplace in fetters<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">Come waving your hands, in a drunken dance<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">Come with dust-laden heads, blood-stained clothes<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">Come, the beloved city is watching:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">The city’s hakim, the crowds of people too<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">The arrows of accusation, the stones of abuse too<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">The disconsolate morn, the failed day too<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">Who besides us is there to befriend them?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">Who now is trustworthy in this beloved city?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">Who now is beyond the assassin’s reach?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">Firm up your heavy hearts, o wounded hearts, come<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">Come, friends, to let ourselves be murdered<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">Today, come to the marketplace in fetters<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"> ---</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> 3.</span></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-n8VQlT3dngw/X-3bBsD28tI/AAAAAAAABSU/nrE17gzckxIYdVYpvtOuAUnajGC95TgAQCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="355" data-original-width="554" height="364" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-n8VQlT3dngw/X-3bBsD28tI/AAAAAAAABSU/nrE17gzckxIYdVYpvtOuAUnajGC95TgAQCLcBGAsYHQ/w568-h364/image.png" width="568" /></a></b></div><b><br /><o:p></o:p></b><p></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-NpVCBNgAbW4/X-3atrbgHDI/AAAAAAAABSM/4L1Pdr4KmN0HemthAwu4zFA7oBu5tzRIACLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="691" data-original-width="554" height="757" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-NpVCBNgAbW4/X-3atrbgHDI/AAAAAAAABSM/4L1Pdr4KmN0HemthAwu4zFA7oBu5tzRIACLcBGAsYHQ/w577-h757/image.png" width="577" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><h3 align="left" style="background-color: #f4faff; color: blue; font-size: 19.2px; font-weight: normal;"><a name="Punjabi2">ਇਕ ਤਰਾਨਾ ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਕਿਸਾਨ ਦੇ ਲਈ</a></h3><a name="Punjabi2" style="background-color: #f4faff;"><p style="font-size: 20px; font-weight: lighter;">ਉੱਠ ਉਤਾਂਹ ਨੂੰ ਜੱਟਾ<br />ਮਰਦਾ ਕਿਉਂ ਜਾਨੈਂ<br />ਭੁਲਿਆ, ਤੂੰ ਜਗ ਦਾ ਅੰਨਦਾਤਾ<br />ਤੇਰੀ ਬਾਂਦੀ ਧਰਤੀ ਮਾਤਾ<br />ਤੂੰ ਜਗ ਦਾ ਪਾਲਣ ਹਾਰਾ<br />ਤੇ ਮਰਦਾ ਕਿਉਂ ਜਾਨੈਂ<br />ਉੱਠ ਉਤਾਂਹ ਨੂੰ ਜੱਟਾ<br />ਮਰਦਾ ਕਿਉਂ ਜਾਨੈਂ<br /><br />ਜਰਨਲ, ਕਰਨਲ, ਸੂਬੇਦਾਰ<br />ਡਿਪਟੀ, ਡੀ ਸੀ, ਥਾਨੇਦਾਰ<br />ਸਾਰੇ ਤੇਰਾ ਦਿੱਤਾ ਖਾਵਣ<br />ਤੂੰ ਜੇ ਨਾ ਬੀਜੇਂ, ਤੂੰ ਜੇ ਨਾ ਗਾਹਵੇਂ<br />ਭੁੱਖੇ, ਭਾਣੇ ਸਭ ਮਰ ਜਾਵਣ<br />ਇਹ ਚਾਕਰ, ਤੂੰ ਸਰਕਾਰ<br />ਮਰਦਾ ਕਿਉਂ ਜਾਨੈਂ<br />ਉੱਠ ਉਤਾਂਹ ਨੂੰ ਜੱਟਾ<br />ਮਰਦਾ ਕਿਉਂ ਜਾਨੈਂ<br /><br />ਵਿਚ ਕਚਹਰੀ, ਚੁੰਗੀ, ਥਾਣੇ<br />ਕੀਹ ਅਨਭੋਲ ਤੇ ਕੀਹ ਸਿਆਣੇ<br />ਕੀਹ ਅਸਰਾਫ਼ ਤੇ ਕੀਹ ਨਿਮਾਣੇ<br />ਸਾਰੇ ਖੱਜਲ ਖ਼ਵਾਰ<br />ਮਰਦਾ ਕਿਉਂ ਜਾਨੈਂ<br />ਉੱਠ ਉਤਾਂਹ ਨੂੰ ਜੱਟਾ<br /><br />ਏਕਾ ਕਰ ਲੋ ਹੋ ਜੋ ਕੱਠੇ<br />ਭੁੱਲ ਜੋ ਰੰਘੜ, ਚੀਮੇ, ਚੱਠੇ<br />ਸੱਭੇ ਦਾ ਇਕ ਪਰਵਾਰ<br />ਮਰਦਾ ਕਿਉਂ ਜਾਨੈਂ<br /><br />ਜੇ ਚੜ੍ਹ ਆਵਣ ਫ਼ੌਜਾਂ ਵਾਲੇ<br />ਤੂੰ ਵੀ ਛਵੀਆਂ ਲੰਬ ਕਰਾ ਲੈ<br />ਤੇਰਾ ਹਕ ਤੇਰੀ ਤਲਵਾਰ<br />ਮਰਦਾ ਕਿਉਂ ਜਾਨੈਂ<br /><br />ਦੇ 'ਅੱਲ੍ਹਾ ਹੂ' ਦੀ ਮਾਰ<br />ਤੂੰ ਮਰਦਾ ਕਿਉਂ ਜਾਨੈਂ<br />ਉੱਠ ਉਤਾਂਹ ਨੂੰ ਜੱਟਾ<br /></p></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-2f_0Lo_Z4ck/X-3abkK6ibI/AAAAAAAABSE/M_50UOep6RkX_-wIO-KNp_nurHucRHh3wCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US"><span><span style="font-size: x-large;">A Song for the
Punjabi Farmer</span><span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>By Faiz Ahmed Faiz <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;"><b> </b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt;"><b>(Translated from Punjabi by TC Ghai)<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b> </b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;"><b>Stand straight up,
O Jatta<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;"><b>Why this
listlessness?<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;"><b>Forgetting you’re
the food giver to the world!<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;"><b>Mother Earth is
your bondsmaiden<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;"><b>You are the
world’s life sustainer<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;"><b>Why do you lie
listless?<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;"><b>Stand straight
up, O Jatta<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;"><b>Generals,
colonels, subedars<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;"><b>Deputies, DCs, Thanedars
–<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;"><b>All eat what you
grow<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;"><b>If you didn’t
sow, if you didn’t harvest<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;"><b>They all would
die of starvation<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;"><b>Why this
listlessness?<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;"><b>Stand straight up,
O Jatta<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;"><b>In the court, at
the octroi post, at the police station<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;"><b>Whether ignorant
or wise<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;"><b>Whether high or
low<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;"><b>All suffer alike<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;"><b>Why this
listlessness?<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;"><b>Stand straight up,
O Jatta<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;"><b>Unite and come
together<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;"><b>Forget who is a Rangad,
Cheema, or Chatha<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;"><b>All are one
family<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;"><b>If they send
armies after you<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;"><b>Sharpen your
choppers<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;"><b>Your right, your
sword</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;"><b>Why this
listlessness?<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;"><b>Strike fear of
Allah in them<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;"><b>Why do you lie listless?<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;"><b>Stand straight up,
O Jatta<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> ---</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p><b><span style="font-size: large;">Two poems by Walter de la Mare</span></b></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 41.25pt; margin-bottom: .25in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .25in; margin: 0.25in 0in; mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Alone</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">Walter de la Mare<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #141823; font-size: large; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">The abode of
the nightingale is bare,<br />
Flowered frost congeals in the gelid air,<br />
The fox howls from his frozen lair:<br />
Alas, my loved one is gone,<br />
I am alone:<br />
It is winter.<br />
<br />
Once the pink cast a winy smell,<br />
The wild bee hung in the hyacinth bell,<br />
Light in effulgence of beauty fell:<br />
I am alone:<br />
It is winter.<br />
<br />
My candle a silent fire doth shed,<br />
Starry Orion hunts o'erhead;<br />
Come moth, come shadow, the world is dead:<br />
Alas, my loved one is gone,<br />
I am alone;<br />
It is winter.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">---<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">Some One <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">Walter de la Mare<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #484848;">Some one came knocking</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #484848;"><br />
<span style="background: white;">At my wee, small door;</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Someone came knocking;</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">I'm sure-sure-sure;</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">I listened, I opened,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">I looked to left and right,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">But nought there was a stirring</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">In the still dark night;</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Only the busy beetle</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Tap-tapping in the wall,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Only from the forest</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">The screech-owl's call,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Only the cricket whistling</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">While the dewdrops fall,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">So I know not who came knocking,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">At all, at all, at all.</span></span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 384.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">---</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><b><span style="font-size: large;"></span></b><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6544824679561075120.post-1773296113610984132020-11-10T13:40:00.000+05:302020-11-10T13:40:35.830+05:30STREET DOG (GALI KA KUTTA) - A poem, and the Anarchist Tradition <p> </p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Friends,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">This poem by me both in English and Hindi might interest you.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> <b> STREET DOG</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> A Poem</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-BR1-tFq8xAg/X6o6RdxxsYI/AAAAAAAABQk/04wCoeZB8685viEvBYzMCrma8Z35SlAxgCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="360" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-BR1-tFq8xAg/X6o6RdxxsYI/AAAAAAAABQk/04wCoeZB8685viEvBYzMCrma8Z35SlAxgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h360/image.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span lang="EN-US"> Source: http://publicdomainpictures.net/pictures/70000/velka/sleeping-street-dog.jpg</span></p><p><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></p><p><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></p><p><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">He lies sprawling on the footpath</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">under the December noon sun<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">soaked in Nature’s bounty<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">immobile, eyes shut, as if in deep sleep<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">Untroubled by <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">the fear of losing
his possessions<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">dictatorial
parents<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">rebellious
offspring<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">a quarrelsome
spouse<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">treacherous
friends<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">backstabbing and
betrayals<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">bouts of
loneliness<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">a god’s wrath<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">police lawyers
taxmen </span><span style="font-size: medium;">ED CBI </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">He lies sprawling on the footpath</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">at peace with the
universe<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
---</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Here is the Hindi version.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI", sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">गली</span><span style="line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="font-family: Mangal, serif; line-height: 107%;">का</span><span style="line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI", sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">कुत्ता</span></span><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">वह</span> <span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">चारों</span> <span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">टांगे</span> <span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">पसार</span><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">फुटपाथ</span>
<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">पर</span> <span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">लेटा</span> <span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">है</span><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">दिसम्बर</span>
<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">की</span> <span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">दोपहरी</span> <span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">धूप</span> <span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">के</span> <span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">नीचे</span><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">प्रकृति</span>
<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">के</span> <span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">वरदान</span> <span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">में</span> <span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">विभोर</span><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">निश्चल,</span>
<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">आंखें</span> <span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">मूंदे,</span> <span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">मानो</span> <span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">गहरी</span> <span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">नींद</span>
<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">में<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">एकदम</span>
<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">बेफ़िक्र</span><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">घरबार</span>
<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">लुटे</span> <span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">जाने</span> <span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">के</span> <span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">डर</span>
<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">से</span><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">मां</span>-<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">बाप</span> <span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">के</span> <span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">आदेशों</span>
<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">से</span><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">पति</span>-<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">पत्नी</span> <span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">के</span> <span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">लड़ाई</span>-<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">झगड़ों</span>
<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">से</span><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">संतान</span>
<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">की</span> <span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">उपेक्षाओं</span> <span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">से</span><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">मित्रों</span>
<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">के</span> <span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">विश्वासघात</span> <span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">से</span><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">देवी</span>-<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">दे<a name="_Hlk55901944">व</a>ताओं</span>
<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">के</span> <span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">प्रकोप</span> <span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">से</span><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">पोलीस</span>,
<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">वकीलों</span>, <span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">आयकर</span> <span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">अधिकारियों </span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal",serif;">ईडी</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal",serif;">सीबीआई </span><span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">के</span> <span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">डर</span>
<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">से</span><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">सभी</span>
<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">संसारी</span> <span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">चिंताओं</span> <span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">से</span> <span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">विमुक्त</span><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">वह</span> <span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">चारों</span> <span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">टांगे</span> <span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">पसार</span><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">फुटपाथ</span>
<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">पर</span> <span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">लेटा</span> <span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">है</span><o:p></o:p></b></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;"><b>----<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Anarchist Tradition</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Here is Noam Chomsky's view of the anarchist tradition.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>The case of anarchist tradition as I understand it, is that power is always illegitimate unless it proves itself to be legitimate. So the burden of proof is always on those who claim that some authoritarian hierarchic relation is legitimate.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i> </i></b></span></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6544824679561075120.post-52171465696724680762020-09-24T12:29:00.000+05:302020-09-24T12:29:47.123+05:30MY CASTE - MY SHADOW SELECTED POEMS: BALBIR MADHOPURI <p><span style="font-size: large;"> Friends, </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Find here the front and back covers of my book of translations into English of well-known Punjabi Dalit poet Balbir Madhopuri (born 1955-) published this month. The book is available with the publishers. It would be available on Amazon shortly. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Balbir Madhopuri came into prominence with the publication of his autobiography <i>Chhangiya Rukh </i>(<i>The Lopped-off Tree</i>)<i> i</i>n Punjabi in 2002 which was later translated into English and published by OUP in 2010 as <i>Changiya Rukh : Against the Night - An autobiography</i> and also into Hindi and Urdu and is being translated into Russian. He has published three books of poetry apart from from some prose writings and translations into Punjabi from other languages. The present selection has been made from his published Punjabi poetry collections and a few unpublished poems. He has recently published a work of fiction in Punjabi titled <i>Mitti bol pei</i> (<i>Earth has spoken</i>). </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4U_jnRRX9Yw/X2shauijw4I/AAAAAAAABOo/GxsOPSRJvS0M8iu-geTFUZHTAN6xtez8ACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_20200923_153732.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1283" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4U_jnRRX9Yw/X2shauijw4I/AAAAAAAABOo/GxsOPSRJvS0M8iu-geTFUZHTAN6xtez8ACLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h640/IMG_20200923_153732.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-h2V7RtAQCSk/X2snQUImEnI/AAAAAAAABPQ/DcLZeKIxA8A4ud2iHFg03o0F7hih7dpjQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_20200922_162739%2B%25283%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1259" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-h2V7RtAQCSk/X2snQUImEnI/AAAAAAAABPQ/DcLZeKIxA8A4ud2iHFg03o0F7hih7dpjQCLcBGAsYHQ/w394-h640/IMG_20200922_162739%2B%25283%2529.jpg" width="394" /></a></div><br /> </div><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Here are a few extracts from the book.</span><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: large;">In Search of Poetry</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">These days I go</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">in search of poetry</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">as someone in the desert should go</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">in search of a tree.</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">In our times</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">poetry has become so insensitive</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">in truth, lost its way</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">become empty of social concerns</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">has forgotten</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">its proud tradition</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">of fighting against the throne:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">the feeling for the suffering</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">swings from the hangman’s noose.</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">In these times, my contemporaries,</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">poetry has learnt</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">like a river</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">to flow within its banks,</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">like a bullock-cart</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">to move on the beaten track.</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">If the mainstream is a dark tunnel</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">what can live words do?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Meanings can only wear out.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">What a turn!</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Mother, in your poetry’s sheath</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">meaning has become</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">a rust-eaten kirpan.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Words are infected with lecherous worms</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">like computer virus.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Even then I keep searching</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">for a weak-bodied, dark-skinned</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">insignificant man a poem</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">a civilization like Mohenjo-Daro.</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">My beloved poetry,</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">don’t go away from the earth</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">like a spaceship;</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">don’t reserve your words</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">only for love tales;</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">come back again</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">like the newly sprouted shoots</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">on leafless trees,</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">like dew drops on grass.</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">These days I go</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">in search of poetry</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">as someone in the desert should go</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">in search of a tree.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">xxx</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Poetry is Not Mere Words</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Poetry is not mere words.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">It is</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">the flight of a man</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">without wings.</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Poetry is not mere words.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">It’s the agonizing cry</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">of a black partridge</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">snapped up by an eagle</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">as it flies out of a sugarcane field.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">It’s the frenzied outcry</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">of a deer terrified in the wild.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">It’s the story of leaves precariously dangling</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">from the branch of a tree.</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Poetry is not mere words.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">It is</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">the meanings emanating from words</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">that have lost their character</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">in the polluted environment;</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">even then they are</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">like monsoon showers in the peak of summer,</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">like stars on a moonless night.</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Poetry is not mere words.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">It is</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">the pain of the failure</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">to conquer the Red Fort of life.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">It is the inexpressible story</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">of the seething waters of a river</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">that rose and fell.</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Poetry is not mere words.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">It is</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">the dance of limpid waters</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">and waves</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">struggling against banks</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">for equality;</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">roads marching towards a destination.</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Poetry of my times,</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">your words are deadly silent.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">This is debasement of their meaning.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Poetry, don’t be a slogan</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">become a voice;</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">not burning coal</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">but cosy wings of a hen</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">over its shivering-in-cold chicks.</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Poetry is not mere words.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">It is</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">the flight of a man</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">without wings.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">xxx</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Poetry, Tell Them</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Poetry,</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">tell them who pluck flowers:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Fragrances can’t be shut up.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">And tell them</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">that for cactus to bloom</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">in the burning sand of the desert</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">to keep smiling in every season</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">is its very nature.</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Poetry,</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">speak to Sahiban:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">She should not, like the spider, weave</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">with the strands of her fancies</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">a golden web around herself</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">that Mirza will return one day</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">bringing down the moon</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">and stars plucked from the skies.</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">And tell her</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">he is busy in search of a livelihood,</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">waiting for electricity beside his tube-well;</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">and no one knows when</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Farhad’s Sutlej-Jamna link canal would flow</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">and the peasant’s budding crop begin to bloom.</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Poetry,</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">tell the fish confined in a bottle</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">that oceans are infested with crocodiles;</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">and the colourful fishes</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">have returned</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">from across the seven seas</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">having licked the stones of self-indulgence.</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Poetry,</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">tell the white pigeons</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">not to behave like parrots;</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">but when the sky is a cage</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">to fly away in a flock</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">against the winds.</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Poetry,</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">tell those insects</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">it’s better</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">to fly on rainy-season wings</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">and be burnt on flames</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">than to crawl and</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">be squelched under heels.</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Poetry,</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">tell the tired bull</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">he should shift the earth</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">onto the other horn.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">xxx</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">My Caste</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">My caste is always with me</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">like my complexion</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">like my shadow.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">We are so rolled into one</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">I’m nothing</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">except my caste,</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">in the city in the village</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">here or across the seas.</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">I try very hard to hide, to cloak</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">wear a hundred masks</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">but it shows itself</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">again and again</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">like the white hair</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">after the dye has worn off,</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">like the bodies peeping</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">through tattered clothes.</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">I wish to be rid of it</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">like someone wanting a divorce</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">but they tell me</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">impress upon me</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">this bond stays on birth after birth...</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">nothing to think about.</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Finally</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">the bow is strung</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">with arrows of reason,</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">that pierce both present and past.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Blood boils within</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">like an earthquake</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">and then</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">the gaps seem to be bridging</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">east-west, right-left.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">My caste is always with me</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">like my complexion</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">like my shadow.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">We are so rolled into one</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">I’m nothing</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">except my caste,</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">in the city in the village</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">here or across the seas.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">xxx</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Tsunami Waves</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">The tsunami waves</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">swept away many things:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">briny rocky shores</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">living things</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">sea creatures</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">trees and humans</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">beautiful natural landscape.</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">The waves overwhelmed</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">even God’s own houses,</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">of this religion and that religion,</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">where people passed by awestricken</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">trembling with fear.</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">And in no time land became water;</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">in the blink of an eye</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">present became past.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">People recalled:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">‘Death is a great leveller.’</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Yet the survivors reversed the tune.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">The living labelled the dead:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">One high, the other low</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">one touchable, the other untouchable.</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">In this way on the seashore</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">the <i>not-humans</i> were left hungry-thirsty,</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">bereft of help and hope</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">in the demonic laughter of the <i>humans.</i></span><i><br /></i><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">And the tsunami waves</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">that had demolished the rocky shores</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">one and all</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">could not knock down</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">the towering walls of hatred</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">rising in the human hearts.</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">In the aftermath</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">on the now calm sea’s wide shore,</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">let someone reflect</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">and say:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Let us push our boat</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">into the sea of humaneness</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">like the waves embrace each other</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">merge into each other</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">catch the poisonous fish.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Come let us play this game.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">xxx</span></b><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">T C Ghai</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span 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<b><span lang="EN-US">Here is another poem on the subject that is exercising everyone in the world: COV1D-19</span></b></h2>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">It might interest you to notice that the poem consists of nine 3-line stanzas with the number of words progressively decreasing from the first to the last. The first stanza consists of nine-word lines and the last of one word lines. The attempt is to show the progressive diminution of the migrants' identity to nothingness.</span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;"> Migrants?</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Who is a
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<b><span lang="EN-US">A person who
moves from one place to another,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">especially, to
find work; or an animal for food.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Do these
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Uprooted from
work; driven out of their hovels;<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">herded into
pens; let loose like stray cattle.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Scattered like dry leaves by a whirlwind<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">C</span>rowding the bus stops and rail stations<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Q-ing for charity food like street bums<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hungry thirsty; desperate to go home<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>where they await hardly any welcome<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>even if they reached there unharmed<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bundled off by their employers<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Disowned by the uncaring state<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>can they be called migrants?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What are they now?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Are they war refugees?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Are they stateless now?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Having no rights!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Citizens no more!</span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Bereft of dignity!</span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just non-entities <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>None’s concern<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just abandoned<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Unwanted
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Forsaken<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Nothings <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"> Find here a cluster of four Haikus On the the theme.</span></b><br />
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">God in the
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">Places of
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">God locked-in,
lonely<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">Devotees
locked-out<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">offerings not forthcoming<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">God inside,
sulks<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">Suppliants at
bay<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">untroubled by pestering
crowds <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">God sighs in
relief<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>--- <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>4<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">Confined in
lock-down<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">God keeps a
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">on humans,
amused<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> ---</span></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> Hope these would interest some of you.</span></o:p></span></b></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6544824679561075120.post-37020476242176306742020-05-07T13:19:00.000+05:302020-05-07T13:19:56.577+05:30Poetry in the Times of COVID-19 IV<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Friends,</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Here is the yet another poem, both in its Hindi and English versions on the current theme: COVID-19. Hope it would interest some of you.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span><br />
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<b><span lang="EN-US"> <span style="font-size: x-large;"> FIAT</span></span></b></h2>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: large;">This is a FIAT
from the State.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Stay where you
are.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Those in their
homes, stay locked in.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: large;">There would be
no shortages.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Groceries,
vegetables, fruits, milk, <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: large;">bakeries, medicines
in plenty.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Keep busy. Use
the Internet, TV <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: large;">for news and
entertainment 24x7.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Be creative.
Invent new pastimes. Keep fit. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Go digital in
money transactions.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: large;">You’ll miss
nothing, except the humanoids<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: large;">who perform
all your menial jobs.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Bear with this
for your own safety<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: large;">and to serve
Mother India.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Last time you lighted
the lamps of solidarity<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: large;">standing in
your balconies <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: large;">at a propitious
confluence of stars.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: large;">This time we
shall ask you to do something more.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: large;">To make a
sacrifice, may be.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Wait for fresh
instructions.</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Now, for those
who are out:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Stay locked
out. Wherever you are.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: large;">On the roads.
In makeshift camps. Wherever else. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Men, women,
old, sick, children, infants, pregnant women, all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: large;">You will be
fed at least once a day. Dal-chawal-roti.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: large;">You will have
to stand in queue. No hardship for you. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: large;">You have done
this again and again.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There may not always be enough for all.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: large;">This also you
know.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: large;">We cannot send
you home.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Bear hunger,
heat, loneliness, separation from your families, <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>indignities from the police. You are no
strangers to these too.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Don’t disobey
the fiat. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: large;">The police may
haul you up. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: large;">We need to
protect the people.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: large;">So, stay where
you are.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Like jawans at
the borders.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Jai Hind. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: large;">---</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">आदेश</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">राजसत्ता</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">ने</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">आदेश</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">जारी</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">किया
है</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">जहां भी हो रुके रहो</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">घर</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">के</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">अंदर</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">या</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">बाहर<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">जो</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">घरों</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">में</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">हैं</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">बाहर</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">न</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">निकलें</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">किसी</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">चीज़की</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">कमी</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">नहीं</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">होगी<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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ब्रैड बिसकुट</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">सभी कुछ मिले गा <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>बेफ़िक्र रहें<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">मनोरंजन</span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">और</span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">ख़बरों</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">के</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">लिए</span><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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दिनरात<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>मनोरंजन के नये नये साधन खोजें<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>व्यस्त</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">रहें</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">फिट<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>रहें <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">आपको सभ कुछ उप्लबध है<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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</span>से पहले हम<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ने आप से अपनी<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>बालकोनी में<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">और</span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">जो</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">घर</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">से</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">बाहर</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">हैं</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">बाहर</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">ही</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">रहें</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">जहां</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">भी</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">हैं</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">सड़क</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">पर</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">बसेरों</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">में</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">कहीं</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">भी</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">जवान</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">बूढ़े</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">बच्चे</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">औरतें</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">बीमार</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">गरभवती</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">औरतें
सभी</span><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">हम</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">तुम्हें</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">खाना</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">खिला</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">देंगे</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">रोटी</span><span lang="EN-US">-</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">दाल</span><span lang="EN-US">-</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">चावल</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">दिन</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">में</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">एक</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">बार</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">तुम्हें</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">लाईन</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">में</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">खड़े</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">रहना</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">होगा</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">हो</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">सकता</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">है</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">कई</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">बार</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">तुम्हें</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">खाना</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">न</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">मिले<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">पर</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">इस</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">की</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">तुम्हें</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">आदत</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">है<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">हम</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">तुम्हें</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">घर</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">नहीं</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">भेज</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">सकते<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">भूख</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">प्यास</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">धूप
परिवार</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">जनों</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">से</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">दूरी</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">अकेलापन </span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">पुलिस
की ज़ोराज़ोरी</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">सहन</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: large;"><b>करने होंगे</b></span><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">अपनी</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">जान</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">बचाने</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">के</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">लिए</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">देश</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">की</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">ख़ातिर</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">इसआदेश</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">का</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">पालन</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">करना</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">होगा</span><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">वरना</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">पुलिस</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">लाठी</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">चला</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">सकती</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">है</span><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">जहां</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">भी</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">हो</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">डटे</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">रहो<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">सीमा</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">पर</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">जवानों</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">की</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">तरह
तैनात</span><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">हमारे</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">अगले</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">आदेश</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">तक</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Nirmala UI", sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">जयहिंद</span></b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6544824679561075120.post-20402741984450272842020-04-14T15:01:00.000+05:302020-04-14T15:01:41.449+05:30Poetry in the Times of COVID-19 III<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Dear friends,</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b> Here is another poem on the theme both in its English and Hindi versions. </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Both the versions have been composed one after the other ,almost simultaneously, each version modifying the other in the process, though here and there going its own way.</b></span><br />
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">Intimations<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">Will I survive
this knockout?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">How many will
die?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">Do I care?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">I want to live
through…<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">Will I?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">A mild
backache<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">A coughing
bout<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A sore throat<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">A sneeze<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">A nose
congestion<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">become the
intimations<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">My hands have
become the enemy!<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">One touch <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">And there I go<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">And during the
day<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">newspapers<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">TV channels<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">social media<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">friends and
well-wishers on phone<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">howls of ambulance
sirens ‒<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">keep revved up
the drumbeat <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">for the
invisible cannibal’s dance<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">During the
night I wake up<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">dreading the stealth
invader’s silent entry<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">How long will
it go on?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">Light at the
end of the tunnel is just a pinhead<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">Will I reach
there? <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>---</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">मौन दस्तक
<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">क्या मैं इस
कठोराघात से बच पाऊं गाा?<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">कितनी जानें
जाएं गी ?<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">मैं क्यों जानू?<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>बस मैं</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">जीना
चाहता हूं<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">क्या मैं सचमुच
बच निकलूं गा?<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">पीठ में हलका
सा दरद <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">खांसी की एक
खों-खों<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">बस एक छींक<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">गले में हलक़ी
सी </span></b></span><span style="font-family: Nirmala UI, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>ख़</b></span><b style="font-family: "Nirmala UI", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">राश</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> नाक बन्द<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">दस्तक देनें
लगते हैं </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">मेरे हाथ मेरे
दुश्मन बन गये हैं<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">एक स्पर्ष और
बस<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">और उस पर<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">अख़बार <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">टीवी चैनल<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">सोशल मीडिया
<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">फोन पर दोस्त
सज्जन <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">हऊ-हऊ करती
ऐमबुलैंस <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">दिनभर उसअदृश्य
नरभख्शी के <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">नाच का नगाड़ा
पीटते रहते हैं<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">और रात को अचानक
उठ बैठता हुं<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">उस मौन आकर्मणकारी<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">के चुपचप </span></b></span><span style="font-family: Nirmala UI, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>आ धमकने</b></span><b style="font-family: "Nirmala UI", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> के डर से</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">आखिर यह कब
तक चले गा? <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">समय की सुरंग
के उस पार प्रकाश <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">बस एक बिन्दु
मात्र<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">क्या मैं उस
तक पहुंच पाऊं गा?<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> ---</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Friends, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Here are two more poems relating to our critical times, both in their English and Hindi versions.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">Hope you would enjoy reading them.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>1. Dos and Don’ts
for COVID-19 and <o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> That Silly Little Girl</span><span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Keep your
distance<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Wash your hands
frequently with soap<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Or use the sanitizer<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Avoid touching
your mouth, nose and eyes<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>with your hands<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Cover your mouth
if you cough<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>and your nose if
you sneeze<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Do not spit<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Keep a mask handy </b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>and wear it when needed<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Stay at home<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>To boost your
immunity<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>eat nutritious
food<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>nuts and green
vegetables<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Vitamin C<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Exercise <o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Avoid stress<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>To pass time<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>listen to music<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>read books<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>compose a poem<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>watch the Ramayan
and Mahabharat <o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>If you see
symptoms of COVID<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>ring up the
Health Ministry’s emergency service<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>But I don’t know
why <o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>ignoring all these easy-to-follow dos and don’ts<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>that silly little
girl <o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>carrying a load
on her head<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>is trudging on
the Express Way<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">from nowhere to
nowhere</b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b> ---<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "nirmala ui" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">कोविड-19
से बचाव और ये छोटी लड़की</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "nirmala ui" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">दूरी बना कर
रखें<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "nirmala ui" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">अपने हाथ बार-बार
साबुन से धोंए <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "nirmala ui" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">या सैनीटाइज़र
से साफ़ करें<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "nirmala ui" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">अपने नाक मुंह
आंखे<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "nirmala ui" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">हाथ से ना छुएं<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "nirmala ui" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">खांसी आने पर
मुंह ढक लें<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "nirmala ui" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">छींक आने पर
नाक ढक लें<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "nirmala ui" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">बिलकुल ना थूकें<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "nirmala ui" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">मास्क लगाएं
या तयैार रखें<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "nirmala ui" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">घर से ना निकलें<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "nirmala ui" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">अपनी इम्मयुंनिटी
बढ़ाने के लिए<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "nirmala ui" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">पौष्टिक आहार
खाएं<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "nirmala ui" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">बादाम अखरोट
काजु आदि<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "nirmala ui" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">हरी सवज़ियां<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "nirmala ui" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">विटामिन सी
<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "nirmala ui" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">व्यायाम </span></b></span><span style="font-family: nirmala ui, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>करें</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "nirmala ui" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">तनाव से बचें<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "nirmala ui" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">टाइमपास के
लिए<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "nirmala ui" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">संगीत सुनें<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "nirmala ui" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">कितबें पढ़ें<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Friends, We are all overwhelmed by the threat posed by COVID-19. We are all trying to make sense of it all, wondering what is in store for us, with over half a million already in its thrall struggling for survival. Millions in our country have lost their livelihoods and have fled from their work places chased by the spectre of the virus and confronted by hunger and starvation on the roads. And thousands of doctors, nurses and supportive staff and many others are heroically risking their own lives to save other lives. So many of us are, however, secure in our homes confined, anxious though safe and facing no real hardship, each engrossed in their own way to make sense of this unprecedented calamity. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I being one of those fortunate ones, so far, have tried to understand it in my own way and here is the result: a poem; rather two versions of one poem, in English and Hindi. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here they are.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The Avenger ?</span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> </span></span></b></h3>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>A report says:
Pollution is down to zero<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>where humans in fright
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Earth, water and
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>For how long? No
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Yet birds and
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>to reclaim the
spaces usurped by humans<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Is this Nature’s
revenge?<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>An existential alarm
bell: Beware <o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>The eco-imbalance
created by them <o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>can wipe them out
too, despite their hubris<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>A grim reminder: there
are no borders<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>The planet
belongs to all, equally</b></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">---</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;"> प्रतिशोध?</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">ख़बर</span>
<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">आई</span> <span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">हैः</span> <span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">प्रदूशन</span> <span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">शून्य</span> <span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">पर</span> <span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">पहुंच</span> <span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">गया</span> <span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">है</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">उन</span> <span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">शहरों</span> <span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">में</span> <span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">जहां</span> <span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">तालाबन्दी</span>
<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">है</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">जहाँ</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal",serif;">महां</span><span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">प्रलय</span> <span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">से</span>
<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">भयभीत</span> <span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">मानवजात</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">अपनी</span>-<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">अपनी</span> <span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">बिलों</span> <span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">में</span>
<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">जा</span> <span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">छुपी</span> <span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">है<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI", sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">धरती</span>
<b>जलाशय </b><span style="font-family: Nirmala UI, sans-serif;"><b>और</b></span> <span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI", sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">वायु</span><b> </b><span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI", sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">स्वछ</span> <span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI", sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">हैं</span><b> </b><span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI", sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">अब</span><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">कब</span> <span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">तक</span>? <span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">कौन</span>
<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">जाने</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">पर</span> <span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">पशु</span>-<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">पक्षी</span> <span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">लौट</span>
<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">रहे</span> <span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">हैं उन</span> <span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">स्थानों पर</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">जो</span> <span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">मानव-जात ने हथिया रखे हैं<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>क्या यह प्रकृति
का प्रतिशोध है ? <o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>एक भयावह चेतावनी:
सावधान!<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>अहंकारी मानव
का रचाया पर्यावरण-असंतुलन<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">उस के लिये</span>
<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;">भी विनाशकारी सिद्ध हो सकता है<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>एक कटु संदेश:
हम अति संबद्ध, अविभाजित<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>इस पृथवी पर
सभी जीवों का अधिकार एक समान<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> ---</b></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">The un-examined life is not worth living. </span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> - Socrates </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Take care of yourselves and people close to you and think of how we can contribute to help those who are totally down and out.</span></h4>
<h4 style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: large;">T C Ghai </span></h4>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6544824679561075120.post-70176263912985270002020-03-23T18:06:00.000+05:302020-03-23T18:06:05.289+05:30Pash in the Times of COVID-19<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Reading Pash in the Times of COVID-19</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Friends, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The whole world is in a fright because of COVID-19. Rightly so. We have forgotten everything else in the face of this existential threat to us humans, so it seems. No one knows how long it will take to get past this threat from this microscopic yet deadly enemy. But we know it will take a long time and with catastrophic consequences, which are already manifest and will unfold over time.We must, while taking care of ourselves and those close to us, always keep in our minds thousands of doctors, nurses and supporting staff who are doing a heroic job in this fight against COVID-19. They are our real war heroes, staking their lives not to kill but save lives.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">But should we forget everything else in this crisis? May be not.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> It is 23 March, the day on which Pash (1950-88), the most dominant Punjabi revolutionary poet, was shot dead by Khalistani militants in 1988. And importantly, it was also the day on which Bhagat Singh, the iconic hero, and his two comrades, Rajguru and Sukhdev, were hanged in 1931 at Lahore jail. Pash was a great admirer of Bhagat Singh, who was his role model. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Perhaps the best way to remember Pash is to read a few of his best poems relevant to our times, COVID-19 notwithstanding. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">These are out of my book of translations of his poetry, <i>Pash: A Poet of Impossible Dreams (2010)</i>. In contrast to the threat posed by a non-human agent, COVID-19, the poems below talk of the threat posed by human being to human beings, and their resilience to fight back and a dream to return to happy times.</span><br />
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">Remembering Pash (9 September 1950- 23 March 1988)</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<img height="117" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XX8hykDUyW4/TPDBoiWBW_I/AAAAAAAAAPw/Th_9Fc3L4ak/s400/Pash_book_cover+3.jpg" width="400" /><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">A SUPPLICATION
FOR INITIATION <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span lang="EN-US">Dharam Guru</span></i><span lang="EN-US">, I have but
one son -<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">my man and bread-earner is dead.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">After your thunderous roar<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">no men survive far and wide.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">Now there are only women,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">or herbivorous bipeds<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">who earn bread for them.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">You, Dharam Guru, are skilled in all the
sixteen arts.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">The faintest fold on your brow<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">can transform happy families into a
homeless herd.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">Everybody, after aligning with someone,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">tries to ram his head into another,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">but I have only one head, Dharam Guru,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">my son’s – and my man and bread-earner is
dead.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">I shall worship only the gods prescribed by
you <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">I shall sing only the hymns sanctified by
you.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">I shall despise all other faiths as
worthless.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">but I have only
one voice, Dharam Guru<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">my son’s – and my man and bread-earner is
dead.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">All these days I have been a dimwit <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">paying no attention to the faith<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">professed even by my own family.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">I have been committing the sin<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">of regarding the family as my faith.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">Foolishly, on hearsay, I have regarded my
husband as God.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">The joys and sorrows of my family<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">have been my only heaven and hell.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">Perhaps I was the bird-shit of Kalyug,
Dharam Guru.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">But now in the resounding bugle of faith
blown by you<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">the fog of apostasy has disappeared from my
eyes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">From now on this foolish woman shall hold
back her own truth<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">and display your truth <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">as the only possible truth.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">After all, just
a woman, what am I <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">before your daredevil warriors?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">At any time of my life,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">I have always been less beautiful than your
sword.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">In my most shining moments, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">I have been colourless before your
refulgence. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">I was ever non-existent.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">It’s only you, and you, O Dharam Guru<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">Dharam Guru, I have only one son.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">Had I seven<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">they would have been no match to you.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">Your dynamite has Godly fragrance.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">It lights up the night skies<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">and drives the heretics back on the
righteous path.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">I shall offer holy water to your sacred
bullet.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">I have only one son, Dharam Guru,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">and my man and bread earner is dead <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">---<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">WHEN REVOLT
RAGES <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">When in the
pitch-dark nights<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">moments recoil <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">and stand in terror of each other<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">the light in the attics<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">jumps from the windows<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">and commits suicide<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">When revolt
rages <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">in the womb of such peaceful nights<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">I can be done to death any time<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">in the broad daylight<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">in the thick of the night<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">---<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">GRASS <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">I’m grass<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">I shall green-wash all your misdeeds.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">You may bomb the university<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">reduce every hostel to a heap of rubble<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">raze all our jhuggis to the ground …<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">How will you deal with me?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">I’m grass, and I shall cover everything<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">rise from every heap.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">You may flatten Banga,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">decimate Sangrur,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">pulverize <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Ludhiana</st1:place></st1:city> into a heap of dust <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">my greenness will do its act<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">and two or ten years hence<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">passengers will ask the bus conductor:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">‘Where are we?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">Drop us at Barnala,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">where green grass grows thick like a jungle.’<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">I’m grass, I’ll do my act:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">green-wash all your misdeeds.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: large;">MA, YOU ARE WEARING OUT </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">Ma, you stop worrying.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">I have bid goodbye to my friends.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">Do you know what they said:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">Now your going back is impossible.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">They are lying, ma.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">Now don’t let me go back there.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">And we won’t let Babloo also go.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">They are the people<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">who took away your elder one from you.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">Ma, you stop worrying,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">I shall catch hold of that rascal <i>Ashim Chatterjee</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">by his moustache and throw him at your feet<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">and you ask him to hand over your elder son’s corpse.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">They spellbind young boys<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">using father’s bones as a magic wand.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">Why do you cry, ma?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">I’ll make even my elder sister<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">retrace her steps<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">and then we all, brothers and sister,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">shall sit together and laugh and laugh<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">as in our childhood days<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">when we, blindfolding you,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">would hide ourselves under the cot<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">and you groped for us spreading your arms.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">Or, exactly like that<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">when I used to run away<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">after pinching your back<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">and you would hurl the rolling pin after me<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">and I used wave the broken pin<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">to make fun of you.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">I know father’s memory still rankles in your heart.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">He was very gentle – don’t you remember -<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">how once, having fallen off the tree<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">while axing a branch, and broken his arm<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">he had kept laughing<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">lest you should faint with shock.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">And how very small was sister<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">just like a doll<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">who, now living in the city, has become so clever.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">But ma, you stop worrying.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">We shall daub her hands with the bridal paste<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">and then I and Babloo<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">shall lie in your lap and<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">listen to the fairy tales<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">and talk about that <i>Tamluk</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">which was once <i>Tamralipti</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">Ma, we shall go far away<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">where there are only birds<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">and the sky is not small like a tent’s roof,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">where trees are like human beings<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">and not human beings like trees.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">Ma, you stop worrying.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">We shall go back to the days<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">when the way to the city<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">led through a huge forest.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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