Tag: sahitya akademi
October 26, 2015 /

On Returning the Sahitya Akademi Award

I am tired of governments.
Of this one. This one. This one. This one. This one. And this one.
And the one before.

And the one after.

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October 22, 2015 /

So you returned the awards?

One has to wonder what kept these literary “stars” from this praiseworthy gesture of returning their state-given awards when the Gujarat pogrom was going on in 2002, or against the pogroms that followed the demolition of Babri masjid in 1992/3, or against the genocide of Sikhs around 1984, or heck, against the ongoing genocide in Kashmir or that of Dalits

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October 21, 2015 /

A Language of Forgetting

it felt as if you are somewhere close,
drawing near in the language of the body

and whispering a language of forgetting
to those you could not.

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