All the best for the meeting. We must fight communalism, sectarianism and
casteism. These have become the bane of the country, and over two decades
these so called secular forces are shredding the country into bits. I
endorse the above views and express my solidarity on it.

This India
monarch wearing
the uneasy crown
squirms, writhes
like the wily snake
as cobwebs taunt
minds, and gun battles
smear the living and the dead.

Children draw pictures
of AK-47, and adults spit
venom, language, religion,
caste and creed, this India
tries to restore the visage of
immortality, but they are waiting
as predators to smash the icon
into smouldering pieces ...

This India pays price
of tolerance, even as
mute bystanders watch
a war in front of hotels
with an exulting media
repeating(as usual), its chorus
of ululations.

Ananya S Guha.

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