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Crashing through the gates of dawn
Gurgling creeks, shimmering waters
Glimmer of hope, solitude of passion
Foretokens me for scoffing at
Zooming trains, deserted bridges
Forlorn rivulets, bloodless menagerie
Gatecrashing into the sophism of my dream
Into the dreamless effulgence that is life
The glasses canker as I tread into life
The gurgle cascades into a whimper
The sparkle empties into the being of nothingness
The beckoning irises into a self-deluding artifice
The obscurity is that fades me in
Lies rearward me are they
The splintered fragments of fissured joys, sorrows
For the door into life, is not a hatch
It is life, and life itself
What endures there of all
Are the shattered pieces
For me to piece together
In my shattered mind
A shot that does not jump cut to the next sequence.
• Collection:
The Fire of Nothingness
• Originally written on
December 20, 2001
[ First published: September 15, 2008
Last updated: September 15, 2008
]
The girl who thrashed a soldier for trying to molest her. Hai jawan!
The history of the Northeast is the history of romantic insurgencies and pyrrhic wars, devastating blasts and brutal carnages, internecine squabbles and ethnic clashes, political chicanery and myopic governance, and what have you. It is also the history of atrocities. By the agents of the State.
When Naga women were raped on church pulpits by the sacrosanct Indian forces, it was something that never coalesced into the form of news. But these days some news do trickle out.
Like that of a gutsy girl in Haflong who took on a group of Army jawans, sometime in the last week of July.
The dam report on tribal peoples that was damned by the media
When skewed concepts of development are the watchwords of the day, it is more than likely that voices against this twisted sense of development don't see the light of day. So when a group that fights for tribal people around the world releases a report on dams, it is damned and made to disappear into the back hole of the news world.
That is what happened to happened to the report "Serious Damage: Tribal peoples and large dams" that was released last week by Survival International. The report exposes the untold cost of obtaining "green" electricity from large hydroelectric dams. The impact on tribal people is profound. One Amazonian tribe, the Enawene Nawe, has learnt that Brazilian authorities plan to build 29 dams on its rivers. Across the Amazon, the territories of five uncontacted tribes will be affected.