Sabarimala
Amid so much of brouhaha
On the political front in India
Here's a real Good News-
From the God's own country.
Travancore Devaswom Board-
Which manages the affairs of
Sabarimala Temple-
(Shrine of Lord Ayyappa who is
Considered eternal celibate)
- Voice Of A Dalit Women
now hear the unheard cries
of dalit women plight
upper caste takes pride
humanity here despise
seeing the cruelty dies
of high caste females crucify
mercilessly their own gender
in the name of caste blunder
mutely supporting the plunder
of dalit women, who wonder
A Poem Dedicated To - Nirvaan
oh nirvaan! truly dearly you,
how should i tell you,
how much i love you,
i am your uncle,
you’re my nephew,
thats not all i have to tell you,
i can see in you,
astonishing wisdom and noble cue,
so i like to earnestly convey you,
‘bees Will Return To Hives! '
The Saffronization of India?
-Phulbani, Kandhammal, Orissa, India.
'Calm follows every storm;
But Christians must be calm! '
‘Where martyrs' blood be spilt,
More churches will be built!
Without much shame or guilt,
Fanatics hit the hilt'
Prayers
In an arid land of arid human minds
Caste, yet again authored a tragedy.
He, disease wrecked, downtrodden,
long-ago skinner of animals, sets out.
Ten days of Typhoid, and a partial recovery.
Enough reason to thank some God.
He drags himself clumsily to a nearby temple.
Sadly, of an Upper-caste God.
Away from the temple, he bends in supplication.
Blame Game
Blame game
Power remains only in family name
They have established reign over national game
All institutions are named after their family
The congress is now confined to schemes so envisaged poorly
Speak against policies even fi they are welfare oriented?
Natural disaster too should be leveled
Against ruling party for natural wrath
Political Motives
They say
'like ideology ploitics is dead'
They argue
' this stravation, violence, crimes without faces
are all there but in a text'
They have similar arguments
about man, woman, black, white, dalit, brahmin
and about everything in the universe
Dalit Girl
I was born on a windy night-
When the clock stroke twelve
Under the starry sky,
In a tarpaulin covered tent.
Nothing new happened
Nothing changed
All seemed so very natural and plaintiff.
A woman from some old world
In shaking hands, with quivering voice
Declared my identity
What Does Dalit Signify It?
Dalit, Dalit is a word signifying
What is it trodden, suppressed, oppressed
And exploited and tortured,
The poorly downtrodden, have-nots, the exploited,
To whom social justice needs to be given
Or who has not got it social, economic justice
And for whom my heart beats for.
Caste, Class, Creed And Dalit Literature
Dalit literature,
This is possible in India,
In Indian context only,
Not at all applicable to English literature
Though the stories of oppression and suppression
Are spread worldwide.
Dalit as a word means trodden,
Pada-dalit, leg-trodden,
Downtrodden and proletarian,
Poverty
The entity that is dreaded by all but ever present everywhere, a non-respecter of age,
Poverty does not have regard for race, nor nationality, as it is present in every part of the globe,
Poverty breeds diseases, it has siblings like misery, ignorance, illiteracy, dejection, rejection, degradation, agony,
Poverty means the difference between haves and have-nots, the rich and the poor, the upper and the lower class,
Poverty is a quick destroyer of human as it makes people ‘sell' lots of things including conscience, and destroys self-esteem,
Dalit Literature, Let Them Write, You Write It Not
Dalit literature, let them write,
You write it not,
The story of their life,
The narratives and anecdotes
Of their own,
They themselves.
Their things you interpret them not
As for your Ph.D. and the scale jump
Dalit's Case, Why Are They Handling?
Dalit's case, why are they handling,
Dalit's matter, why are they taking up,
Let them take up and say
Rather than them
Who just want to come to the fore
Using their names,
Utilizing their stuffs,
Narratives and anecdotes?
O, I smell a rat,
Dalits
There
They are
Treating
Dalits as
Untouchable
But when it
Comes to
Rape, their
Bodies
Become
Festival Haiku - March 12 World Kidney Day
let the water flow, let it flow
so that i can clean you up
thoroughly
i come as a pair
to give you a fair chance
to your left, to your right
dont miss the chance
to be fluid,
in thoughts, words
Under The Mango Tree: Uttar Pradesh
The Taj Mahal's love tale is eternal
Built by a prince to mark lost bridal joys
White marble sculpted in a vast farewell
Fashioned with all the grandeur wealth employs
Two Dalit girls, each shy as a gazelle
Walked from their village with a maiden's poise
Towards the toilet field as evening fell
The youngest, barely past the age of toys
Dalit Woman
A child of twelve looks back quite dignified
moderately sad dragging her cloth-sack
across lands slanting upwards putrefied.
Skies above filled with scavenging crows glide
sourcing a better livelihood or snack
in swooping, darting zigzags maniac.
While barefoot urchins search filth festering-
dumps; sweet faces covered in oily-smears
straight-backed, shoulders slouched go peppering
obscenities of our wealth pig-swilling
The Dirty Indians!
When the country was rocked
in and out of Parliament
by a series of scandals,
a brutal gangrape in the capital
made the politicians of all the parties
to demand hanging till death to the criminals.
When the tribal or dalit women were teased,
molested, driven nude in the streets,
by stripping, and battering them with brooms
<≪≪≪ Criss -Cross
Neither all Christians are Americans
Nor all Muslims are Arabians
In Arabian Peninsula there are Christians
In the land of America there are Muslims, too
Criss -crossing nations
Criss-crossing races
Religion is mere a feather
Adorning the crown of your belief
When a European kills a white Muslim
Or an Asian kills a black Christian
Not In Good Taste
The word caste -
Not in good taste,
Utter not, please.
No one is Dalit or
Say scheduled caste or tribe,
But each one is backward
And ignorant about the truth.
Say, on this earth,
Each one is Dalit,
Say we are to know the truth,