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(text-colour:#95A5A6)[ [[blinding]] ] (text-colour:#6D5C4A)[''light of the wall
to look into what it set out to hide''] ]
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</script>(align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[The (text-colour:#d3a373)[ [[walls|scared]] ] silently bleed like the burnt pages found in my library.]
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(align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[He walks through the walls that met with a similar fate as his.
He contemplates (text-colour:#ECC398)[ [[frictions]] ] between stakeholders in a fight towards control over the spaces ,
]
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The walls silently bleed like the burnt pages found in my (text-colour:#ddbf2c)[ [[library]] ] .
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</script>(align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[a (text-colour:#d9cb73)[ [[record]] ] of deeds and (text-colour:#d9cb73)[ [[words]] ]](align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[
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(align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[but , do all records make it to the time intended?
What about (text-colour:#d9cb73)[ [[memories]] ] that were never to be known?]
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</script>(align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[//If you wish to be counted among those
those who have the (text-colour:#d9cb73)[ [[power of sight]] ],
Move on from mere words to the inner
experience
You don’t become a believer in Unity by just
saying the word:
The word (text-colour:#d9cb73)[ [[‘sugar’]] ] however repeated, doesn’t
sweeten the mouth.//
-Dara Shikoh, ruba’i number 82
]
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</script>(align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[(text-colour:#1F2170)[//They have imprisoned us,
me inside the high walls,
you outside,
in the wider prison.
But who has been spared
that dreams of freedom, of a hopeful future?
They are (text-colour:#721B1B)[ [[scared]] ] of our dreams,
frightened of our love for the people of empty hands
and bare feet, who love their lands of hope.//
-G.N.Saibaba, 17 August 2018 ]]
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</script>(align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[(text-colour:white)[Power of sight can be absolutely bereft of vision behind bureaucratic lenses - glass castles , ivory towers :]
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(align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[Is the sweet-talk of the (text-colour:#e1e199)[ [[administrators]] ] in the liberal regime any different from what my verse says?
]
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(align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[No matter how convincingly they utter “ for your safety” , “ to avoid a mishap” , “ to grace the (text-colour:#e8b887)[ [[University’s "values ”|scared]] ], why does it sound all hollow? ]
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</script>(align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[What does this fearful regime attempt to (text-colour:#F9E79F)[ [[mask]] ] beneath these gleaming new fortifications?
And , there goes another layer of cement over the words “ free all political (text-colour:#F9E79F)[ [[prisoners]] ]” ]
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(align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[These prisoners are (text-colour:#ddb992)[ [[my colleagues]] ] across space-time- poets , writers , students , secular voices rupturing these falsified high walls .]
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</script>(align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[Their words were no pleasers to the ministers , the administrators whose eyes were so smitten by the glory of their illusory visions that they failed to see the distressed cries around that try to create a space for their voices , (text-colour:#d3b08d)[ [[Shukoh]] ] thought.]
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(align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[//(text-colour:#203767 )[Upon seeing the poets handcuffed
and walking through the gates
of an imprisoned court of law,
the dazed scribe of eminence] (text-colour:#641E16)[ [[cried|Shukoh]] ],
(text-colour:#203767 )[heart-broken tears rolling down his cheeks.
Decades have passed.
Now again,
farcically enough,
history repeats itself.]//
(text-colour:#203767)[-G.N.Saibaba, 4 May 2019, for Varavara Rao]]
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(align:"<==")+(box:"===XX")[(text-colour:#1F2170)[And you’ll ask,
Why doesn't his poetry speak of dreams and leaves
And the great beauty of the native land?
Come and see the blood in the streets!]
(text-colour:#1F2170)[Come and] (text-colour:white)[ [[see]] ]
(text-colour:#1F2170)[the blood in the streets!] ]
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</script>(align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[ (text-colour:white)[His] (text-colour:#F9E79F)[ [[eyes|Untitled Passage 1]] ] (text-colour:white)[reach a small fragment reminding him of] (text-colour:#F9E79F)[ [[the memorial wall]] ] (text-colour:white)[for those whose lives like his were taken for not abiding by the norms]]
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(text-colour:#733a3a)[(align:"<==")+(box:"X=")[''As he sat before the Library's open window, the magnificent but still mild sun now full in his face, Dara Shukoh looked at the flower bed in full bloom , facing the VC [(text-colour:white)[[Lawns]] ] .
What a sight to behold he thought, reminiscing about the Gardens of his time :'']]
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</script>(align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[(text-colour:#F9E79F)[ [[Between]] ](text-colour:white)[him , the flowers , and the lawn lay the concrete hedge constructed newly.]](align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[<img src="assets/cimages/covfront.jpg" width="600" height="320"/>](align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[(text-colour:white)[He wondered how students once gathered there, discussed and learnt collectively overcoming many differences.The beauty of the flowers got replaced by the thorns , appearing like] (text-colour:#F9E79F)[ [[shields]] ]]
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(align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[
(text-colour:white)[His gaze turned towards something
shining through the (text-colour:#51331A)[ [[frayed |glimmering]] ]tarpaulin,
covering a mound at one of the edges
still to be barricaded.] ]
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(align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[(text-colour:#D6DBDF)[Another] <a href="https://www.delhipolice.nic.in/The%20Delhi%20Prevention%20of%20Defacement%20of%20Property%20Act.pdf"; target="_blank"><mark>(text-colour:black)[notice]</mark></a> (text-colour:#D6DBDF)[adjacent to it made clear the implications of impairing or interfering with the appearance or beauty of the public property, damaging,disfiguring, spoiling or injuring it in any other way whatsoever and
that the word] (text-colour:#F9E79F)[ [["deface"]] ] (text-colour:#D6DBDF)[shall be construed accordingly.]
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(align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[(text-colour:white)[ (text-colour:#51331A )[ [[Tresspassers]] ] will be'' (text-colour:#51331A)[ [[penalized]] ]
''on plucking the flowers" - a board next to it said.]]
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(align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[(text-colour:white)[Upon uncovering and discovering the debris of the wall
with handprints faintly visible ,a] (text-colour:#F9E79F)[ [[ gloom|Fragments]] ] (text-colour:white)[casts on his face.
]]
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(align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[(text-colour:white)[the facade which once spoke about human rights has turned into the](text-colour:#F9E79F)[ [[rags]] ] (text-colour:white)[of my clothes when I was shamed publicly and eventually executed for standing up for secular values.]]
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(align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[
Like rags of my (text-colour:#F9E79F)[ [[clothes]] ] when I was shamed publicly and eventually executed for standing up for secular values ,
the walls once, an active discursive space have met their untimely end.]
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(align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[But , what about those who were destroying the very humanitarian values on which the society was built?
And , (text-colour:#ffffb7)[ [[those|prisoners]] ] who upheld the constitutional values and were penalised in turn?
whose act is more criminal?]
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(align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[<mark> (text-colour:black)[All kinds of spirits, dead and alive
linger in this centuries old University Campus.
The air is thick with their stories.
]
(text-colour:black)[Plug in your earphones,click on this] (text-colour:#85929E )[ (text-style:"rumble")[ [[murmur|Untitled Passage 1]] ] ] (text-colour:black)[and others alike to unearth some...]</mark>]
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(align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[<a href="http://va-scce-aud.in/SB_2021/Monkey/p1/index.html"; target="_blank"><mark>(text-colour:black)[Tale about a tail]</mark></a>]