'How will you threaten / The soul that is free?'
Tag: Dissent
Call Me by My Name
'Call me by name as I have earned it. I don't want to be an obituary in a newspaper – I want to be the headline.'
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.'
The Stretcher-Bearers
On a battlefield in South Africa, Gandhi read Into the blood blotches on the stretcher cloth The shape of a country that didn’t exist yet. The future, it was …
A Hate-Mongering Serpent
'Our Chanakyas are only interested in forming governments, polarising brains and dividing people... they do not heed their motherland’s cries'.
For Umar Khalid
A poem letter to Umar Khalid, who has been behind bars since September 2020.
Academic Freedom Is Under Attack Globally – Including in India: Report
The 'Free to Think 2021' report claims that Indian authorities have wrongfully detained and prosecuted scholars and students under anti-terrorism laws.
It Was Not Just Farmers Who Were Murdered in Lakhimpur Kheri
'It was a murder of the dreams of our freedom fighters by criminals turned lawmakers'.
The Emperor Is Afraid of Nothing But
'Of a public that remembers.'