(Dedicated to Dr Prabhat Patnaik, the brilliant JNU Professor from Khordha)
did they fight;
not for the supremacy
of a class, caste or community.
In fighting for salt,
they fought for their dignity.
With intense passion, great hope
and immense trust they fought
that there would be no more loot
of public money, no waste of labour,
no authoritarian rule and atrocity,
no repetition of famine and poverty.
They fought for freedom
of choosing their fate,
they fought for liberty,
not in favour of a King’s Crown,
nor did they fight to reestablish
another kind of colonialism
of a homegrown group to frown
at them and be above people,
the ordinary common men
reducing, on the contrary, to slaves
of their clumsy isms.
Copyright:Bipin Patsani
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