Don't remember when I started reading the newspaper backwards,
starting from the sports page.
Must have been long ago,
when I stopped listening to the breaking news on TV.
Farmers mistaking pesticides for their food,
hanging themselves on the trees, they once planted.
Rapes of minors, gang rapes, **** and ******
crimes, violence, arson on the basis of caste, creed and religion.
Just because of being born in a different home,
to parents who go to a different place of worship.
An irate mob can do anything it perceives right,
Lynch a beef eater,
or brutally beat up a doctor ,
who could not guarantee a result.
How long ? How long should we,
insulate ourselves from such acts of shame ?
How long can we pretend
not to see, not to hear,
or even not to comprehend
the magnitude of darkness in our society?
Till the darkness reaches us ?
Wouldn't it be late then ?
Peering at the first page of newspaper,
I wonder, how long ?
Aug 22, 2018
Aug 22, 2018 at 1:10 PM UTC
Don't remember when I started reading the newspaper backwards,
starting from the sports page.
Must have been long ago,
when I stopped listening to the breaking news on TV.
Farmers mistaking pesticides for their food,
hanging themselves on the trees, they once planted.
Rapes of minors, gang rapes, **** and ******
crimes, violence, arson on the basis of caste, creed and religion.
Just because of being born in a different home,
to parents who go to a different place of worship.
An irate mob can do anything it perceives right,
Lynch a beef eater,
or brutally beat up a doctor ,
who could not guarantee a result.
How long ? How long should we,
insulate ourselves from such acts of shame ?
How long can we pretend
not to see, not to hear,
or even not to comprehend
the magnitude of darkness in our society?
Till the darkness reaches us ?
Wouldn't it be late then ?
Peering at the first page of newspaper,
I wonder, how long ?