A poem written on feeling disillusioned by everything that is happening around the world.
Tag: BJP
Mahua Moitra’s Kali Embodies the Diversity of Hinduism. The People in Power Don’t Like That
The populist regime and its followers are insecure about appreciating other forms as it takes away their ownership over the religion.
The Good Day
A poem on the Lok Sabha secretariat's new booklet listing 'unparliamentary words'.
A Nation Gone Berserk
Written in response to a general decline of civil rights in India in the name of abstract ideologies and the vicious cycle of justifying one act of excess by …
Poem: Requiem for Justice, With Apologies to Poetry
Here’s a winning formula / To make the Rashtra stronger: / Lengthen the long arm of the law, / And let its nose be longer.
A Sad State of Affairs
'This land which freed us from the colonisers is yet again trapped under the boots of a state that has failed our constitution.'
Battle Over Textbook Revision in Karnataka Has Helped Expose the Ideology of Brahminical-Hindutva
Though the resistance is growing and evolving on the ideological plane, it currrently lacks the ability to see through the designs of the RSS-BJP – leave alone defeat it.
Doubt the Truth: Pitfalls of Treating Human Attention as a Commodity
In the age of an 'attention economy', it's important for people to be more and more conscious of what is it that they are giving attention to.
The Sangh’s Dream of a ‘Hindu Rashtra’ is Not Even Shared By Most Hindus
In India, toxic propaganda and polarisation have so impacted the Hindu psyche that bigotry will not come down if India is declared a Hindu nation, as Hasan Suroor has …
Returning
This poem is dedicated to all political prisoners and their families, who have spent every day waiting for their loved ones and for justice.