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Safed Chaadar (The White Shroud)
Author's note: Written at 17, the poem captures the emotional turbulence of grappling with societal pressures and expectations around a young girl's modesty and conformity symbolized by the dupatta (Indian long scarf).
The White Shroud
This white shroud; I detest its every fibre
Scheming to entomb me in its fold
It reeks of societal mindset
That will cover me completely after death
I don't wish to shrink in its fold now
It reeks of societal cruelty and harshness/
Will I ever escape its grasp
or will my existence be lost?
I don't wish to live suffocated in it
Oh! How I detest this white shroud
Scheming to entomb me in its fold/
Chetan (Sentient)
Author's note: Written at 18, the poem explores the idea of panpsychism, i.e the notion that everything has some form of consciouness -- sky, music, moon, touch etc.
Na jaane kab kaise (When & How)
Author's note: Written at 18, the poem highlights a young girl's longing for liberaation, like bird flying free in the sky.
When & How
I am jealous of the small bird
flying in the sky
It is free and I am free too
Yet our freedoms are far apart /
That bird is liberated in true sense
My freedom is chained in relations
Not sure which and of what kind/
I wish to fly liberated in the sky
But will I be able to break the chain ?
If yes, when?
May be when it won't matter to me anymore
Don't know when
Don't know how?/
Matbhed (Dissent)
Author's note: Written at 18, the poem explores the theme of dissent where a young girl challenges the society by seeing light in darkness, life in death and so on.
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