Tuesday, May 23, 2017

Purva Anchal (On a train through Eastern Uttar Pradesh, India, under curfew) Comments

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How beautiful is this land!
Beautiful and long-suffering.
A shawl of buckwheat green
Flutters in the wake
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Fahmida Riaz
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Rajnish Manga 23 May 2017

Religious fanaticism brings neither peace nor prosperity. Only the agent provocateurs make hay. It is the ordinary people who are perpetual losers. Thanks, Patricia, for such a fine translation. Listen to Kabir / Who pleads with you: Wars of hatred / Do no honour to God. Both Ram and Rahim / Will shun a loveless land.

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Fahmida Riaz

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