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on April 09, 2017

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Damn,

Your eyes,

The skies,

My tears, all

Twisted up

In blue.

~ Judith Vaddi

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CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD – WE THE PEOPLE

“I see nothing quite conclusive in the art of temporal government, But violence, duplicity and frequent malversation.” ― T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral I had written this piece 5 years ago https://judithnv25.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-simmer-of-discontent.html and little, if nothing, since then has changed. The only thing that has remained constant, if not risen to lower levels, if that is a thing, has been the discourse. Sinking to new lows every day, especially this political season, and that too coming from the highest chair, while certainly shocking, has not been unexpected. For it is from the abundance of the heart, a man speaks, and speech, well, it has been vitriolic, putrid, rank and foul, the stench overwhelming. Much can be said to explain it away, that of humble origins, the lack of finesse or social graces, or even the lack of command of the language, but the sheer bigotry and raw, visceral hate looms large, overshadowing all pretense,...

NO RETREAT. NO SURRENDER.

257 days. It has been challenging to say the least. The choices we have to make, whether to simultaneously develop a thick hide to the ‘terrorist’, ‘illegal immigrant’ tag we are labeled with when any untoward incident occurs, or to NOT develop a cold, cynical heart precisely because of all of the above. The silence from the mainstream media and the apathetic indifference from the rest of the country, family members (yes them) included makes one wonder, do we really matter? The newly relaunched #BharatJodoNyayYatra flagged off yesterday in Manipur but the alacrity with which the convoy passed through the state has been, let’s say hardly surprising but yes, disappointing indeed. There was none of the meeting with the general public to get a sense of how they have been coping, horrendously I might add, over the past year of sorts. Which begs the question, what really then was the purpose of starting the journey from there? Apart from the five minute photo ops with children and the i...

THE HOLLOW MEN

adversity noun : a state or instance of serious or continued difficulty or misfortune "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." ~ Martin Luther King Jr. In exactly 10 days, it will be 13 months since violence erupted back home. A recent news article stated the following: Dr Irfan Engineer, the director of India’s Centre for Study of Society and Secularism told us: “Riots that are spontaneous in nature [in India] can be controlled within 24 hours…there are two necessary conditions for riots to continue beyond 24 hours – it should be well planned and the administration, including police, should want it to continue and should be otherwise complicit.” Full article here: https://www.thetablet.co.uk/blogs/1/2790/why-the-global-community-must-hold-india-to-account-for-atrocities-in-manipur?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaa6u0H8mMFdHtSKORb1-bM_zimTsA-scHMhlLcr7__i5qZOu9qblDDauFk...

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