Poetry
To Bahadur Shah Zafar
(The last Mughal emperor)
The Emperor wrote
a lonely note. In exile,
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Native land. Colonials
took a firm stand. That was
more than a century ago. An
era swept history beyond
sepulchral lores. Returning
to his country of yore, the
Emperor, would he win a vote?
Would he be marginalised?
Would he be able to get his rights?
Sifting sands of time redefined
temples, mosques and churches.
Democracy on crutches dug
trenches for the dead. Ghosts
continued to lean out of windows
waiting to leap into the future.
But the Emperor? The Emperor—
could he ever return?
Mitali Chakravarty seeks love & harmony and in that spirit founded the Borderless Journal.
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