Meeting Roy*

 27.01.2023

She told me how

she found herself

in brokenness and borders;

of how the cacophony

of fear and hatred

blur at the seams

of life and death;

of how ideologies and purblind beliefs

shutter us from our fellow beings;

of how unlike capitalism

we can exist

in different languages

sometimes in parts

sometimes as whole;

of classes and castes

of religions and parties;

of how we can be

passive only till

the political turns personal;

of how important it is to fight

even when you are

so so sure

that you are losing!

*Arundhati Roy - author and political activist