Crossing the Threshold [for Gauri Lankesh]
Courageous Gauri ascends to cloud realms, leaving pale visages and desolate grief.
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From ULR
Issue 6 – Freedom
War Clouds
Radio’s jingoism replaces love songs, rousing audiences into cheering spectators for impending war.
December 1, 2021
Of late, the love songs
That dominated the air waves
Seem to be on fadeout
The announcers talk
Of blood & tears
Patriotism & sacrifice
They play marching songs back to back
And don’t even tell you the singers’ names
A glutinous ecstasy is oozing here
A dangerous lather of jingoism games
If radio is like this, what must TV be like?
With ratings for every death-to-be?
Like cheering Romans at the Colosseum
We wait for the battle lines to be drawn
War seems to be in the air
And on air too
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Lina Krishnan
Lina Krishnan is an abstract artist and writer in India. Small Places, Open Spaces is her chapbook of nature verse. Her poems can also be seen in sixteen anthologies, among them the Black Bough Poetry Winter Anthology; and three editions of the Yearbook of Indian Poetry in English.