{"id":2191,"date":"2012-01-14T07:49:31","date_gmt":"2012-01-14T06:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/socialism.in\/?p=2191"},"modified":"2013-01-10T10:39:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T09:39:14","slug":"comrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialism.in\/?p=2191","title":{"rendered":"Comrades"},"content":{"rendered":"

We gathered to speak our rights<\/span>
\n They came and told us we have none<\/span>
\n We resisted them with our fights<\/span>
\n They called us names and snatched our bun.<\/span>
\n They told everybody we were evil, enemies of the nation<\/span>
\n Hypocrites\u00a0with words and heckled our mission.<\/span><\/p>\n

Some who did not believe their tongue<\/span>
\n Were made to swear on god<\/span>
\n They had to prove their\u00a0innocence<\/span>
\n With their hand on their children’s head<\/span><\/p>\n

We kept demanding for what was ours.<\/span>
\n Bullets,\u00a0grenades\u00a0were dropped in showers<\/span>
\n The fat man on the chair would laugh<\/span>
\n Meat on his plates and eyes at the flat screen plasma.<\/span><\/p>\n

We persisted.<\/span>
\n Some of us fell.<\/span>
\n Some of us lived for another day so that they could tell the tale<\/span><\/p>\n

What happened next still awaits in future,<\/span>
\n When the fat man ran and they dropped his\u00a0couture.<\/span>
\n No one believed their vague propaganda any more<\/span>
\n We were asked for the rights and therefore<\/span><\/p>\n

The last we talked some asked us our names.<\/span>
\n We said call us Dear Comrades.<\/span><\/p>\n

By Saptarshi Banerjee<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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