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About Yet Another Diwali Woe

Yet another Diwali has come with its entire glow,
Nay; its fury of sounds and flames
And the masses go crazy upsetting the tune of a happy time
Here in India with minds cracked down and deafening sounds raving on.
They buy crackers and rockets and blast up the regions calm
And they call it celebrations colourful with a difference
And go on burning the little bombs and shooting the tiny missiles.

The diyas* and the sweet dishes take a back seat
The pious women go unseen and their chants go unheard.
Diwali is all sounds and sounds and nothing else at all!

The demon king`s defeat and death at the hands of
Krishna**, the deity with a flute on the mouth
Reverberates with the message of victory of the good over the evil
Down the generations since the Aryans descended.

A baby being nourished and moulded in its mother`s womb
Wakes from its slumber and lies scarred and doomed
Its nightmare of future terror has just come true!

A septuagenarian oldie puts his hand on the heart and falls down,
He has just been out of the surgeon`s dark chamber
After a by-pass surgery done at his son`s mercy.

Then a crippled man struggles to reach his home.
How will all of them go on these tracks ever blasting?

The Diwali casts a spell of joy and happiness knit together!
But terrorizes all the animals and birds, the ones without
Gods, scriptures, castes and religions
And they flee from their small homes and nests
To reach nowhere they can breathe and lie un panicked.

The human civilization once threw them from the throne of equality
Man`s supremacy chained and caged them up for ever,
His religions re-animalised them further.

A blinded cat and bleeding mongrel line up next!
And man`s celebrations ever continue to cripple them for ever….

See, a dozen rodents lie with broken heads,
Feel it for yourselves, a hut has been on fire for long,
And an old camel has got a burn on its haunch.

A small kid on prowl has lost his vision
And two girls were crying after burning their palms both.
They were too celebrating the festival of Diwali!
All go frenzied with the logic of sounds
Of bursting crackers in all ecstasy!

A cracker manufacturing factory gets blown up
And the inferno kills tens and scores every time.

Hundreds of imprisoned pets
Shiver with dread and their small hearts
Pound and pout for hours together.
The sky too shakes and vomits sparks of fire
Innumerable feathered friends flutter aloud
And fly unto lands less populated.

Why this frenzy at all?
Is a festival here to destabilize a few
Even while cheering up many?
Do we have any right to instill fear and fright
In the small minds of our puppies and kitten?

Do we have any common sense at all
When we celebrate a festival this way madly?

An alien writing from the space stations above the earth`s reach
Will begin to wonder about the folly of this noise
Imposed on all the living stocks
Without any discretion or empathy
And he/she will report to the masters anxious
About this fury and sound ever emerging
Signifying nothing but a soon-to-be lost speck of life
In India on this peninsula of past glory!

poem by M.d Dinesh Nair
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