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Kathua & Unnao -- In-dia is In-dead

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Five & half years ago, I wrote intensely & emphatically about Jyoti Singh [Nirbhaya]. My letter [article] wasn’t sad, it was flambuoyant, and it had a message of Hope.  I couldn’t have been more fucking delusional. Five & half years later, things have changed for the worse. Absolutely expectedly Before I sat down to write about eight-year-old Asifa, who, like India, is dead, I read several insightful articles over the past three days. All the discerning opinions were connected by these five major elements. InfuriatingRage, InstantCapitalPunishment, SelectiveCompassion, Hate&BlameBJP, DemandForAccountabilityAndChange InfuriatingRage: Outrage & Anger feel good and are vaguely therapeutic. They ‘stir & shake’ but don’t ever bring lasting change. InstantCapitalPunishment: Capital Punishment feels like the 'right thing', doesn’t it. It brings no change at all. 'Reform' not Capital Punishment is the answer. P.S. Don’t chal

Skyler — Letter 3 of 7 — 3 am & he dumped me

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Everything changes the moment clock says 00.00 and rolls on the other end of the zeroes.  The clocks were 7 hours 4 minutes away from whispering 00.00 when he decided to roll on the other end of the ‘relationship’. He dumped me before we even made love - even before we messed the sheets. The certainty in his eyes made my heart tremble & hair levitate as my lashes fluttered like an epileptic butterfly. Oh words, I heard the words ‘Skyler, you & I have to go on without you & I’. Oh words, I heard them alright. They didn’t scare me one bit, but his eyes - they murdered me. They say stars wake at night when humans are asleep. I’m no one to challenge that million-year-old wisdom. It’s 3am & my back is on the warm summer roof. My eyes, non-murderous eyes, see those uncountable stars levitated in the sky. In me, I feel like a prolific mother who’s staring at her babies who are asleep in the skies. They are asleep the way Roy is now. I can’t see him like I can