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News of the Week
15 December 2024
Genocide Ghazal
30 November 2024
Reading Sangam Poetry, I Think of Amit Shah
4 August 2024
A Name for This Fire
30 May 2024
Kabir Approaches the Delhi High Court
27 May 2024
Between Phases
14 May 2024
After Reading Kabir, I Watch Dhruv Rathee Go Viral
3 April 2024
Yesterday’s News
19 March 2024
Love, and Also a Challenge
15 February 2024
Dream Adjuourned, Deferred, Again
26 January 2024
Reading Akhil Katyal on an Early Morning Metro
10 December 2023
Dreaming of Rubble and Rivers and Seas`
26 November 2023
As Bombs Fall in Gaza, I think of Umar Khalid
17 October 2023
Undiplomatic
24 September 2023
In Preparation for the G20
15 August 2023
‘Pressure on the Family’
17 June 2023
1000 Days Inside
9 June 2023
Helpless
14 May 2023
Predictable
14 May 2023
First Year Interrupted
19 March 2023
Failing Fourth
19 March 2023
Laking a Tranfer Certificate,
19 March 2023
Meditation
21 February 2023
Legal Opinion
26 January 2023
This Poem is Not About Free Speech in China
8 December 2022
Still No Eternal Peace?
27 November 2022
On the Back of Your Bike, Praying
22 October 2022
I See the Future and the Future Looks Good
22 October 2022
Tremble
15 August 2022
Garden
23 July 2022
Distraction
2 July 2022
Painful
22 May 2022
Two Hundred Poems Later, the No-Name Poet Tries to Explain
22 May 2022
Father Stan Swamy Came to Delhi Last Week
7 May 2022
Ghazal Against Bulldozers
24 April 2022
No Escape
24 April 2022
A War Poem
3 April 2022
How Is It We Keep Forgetting?
2 April 2022
Closer, Closer
13 March 2022
Considering the Issues on Counting Day
13 March 2022
I Fall Asleep Reading Uday Prakash as Russia Invades Ukraine
26 February 2022
Delhi Weekend Curfew
26 January 2022
The Emperor Consults His Advisors
16 January 2022
Temper, Temper
16 January 2022
‘If they are so mighty, let them snuff out the moon’
8 January 2022
The Censor at Work in the Park
8 January 2022
Sheep
1 January 2022
Two Photos
28 December 2021
A Memory, a Prayer and a Dream
25 December 2021
Delhi Progressive Writers’ Association Conference
18 December 2021
Appeal
18 December 2021
December Moon, Half Full
11 December 2021
What They’re Selling
5 December 2021
Dreams of Fear and Rejoicing
20 November 2021
Facing the NIA
31 October 2021
Elegy for Lakhimpur Kheri
10 October 2021
Sometimes, just after the rain,
2 October 2021
A Suggestion
2 October 2021
A Neighbor Complains I am Missing the Point
26 September 2021
A Rule for Comrades and Siblings
26 September 2021
Song for You
19 September 2021
While We All Slept (a Ghazal for Drones)
11 September 2021
Come Alive
4 September 2021
Kabul Calling
29 August 2021
As Kabul Falls, I Worry About the Water Table
29 August 2021
Failed Ghazal
15 August 2021
Three Haiku
15 August 2021
Mystery
7 August 2021
Call
6 July 2021
Pass
6 July 2021
A Hopeful Liar’s Confession
4 June 2021
Vaccination Package:
30 May 2021
For My Mother, That Baby and Father Stan Swamy
26 May 2021
The PM Addresses Farmers: An Excerpt
21 May 2021
The PM at Davos
21 May 2021
News in Review
15 May 2021
Divinations
12 May 2021
Delhi Emergency 10 p.m.
9 May 2021
Central Vista Project: Estimated Costs, Revised
4 May 2021
For a Tender Comrade
1 May 2021
In Front of the Chemist,
1 May 2021
I Have Seen Astonishing Sights
27 April 2021
A Late April Prayer for Delhi
25 April 2021
What’s Good for the Serum Institute…
22 April 2021
Failure in Gujarat
18 April 2021
Mask Up India
15 April 2021
Whispers
14 April 2021
Reel for Delhi in Springtime
7 April 2021
Abolish the Delhi Police
6 April 2021
Questions I Don’t Need To Ask
3 April 2021
Excess Demands (or Why Such a Shortage of Justice)
2 April 2021
Gently
1 April 2021
News of Sickness and Health
27 March 2021
Coronation
21 March 2021
Please Understand, Private Universities Have Principles
19 March 2021
Still Trying
14 March 2021
Three Postcards to Umar Khalid
5 March 2021
Stopping by Saidulajab to Consider Horses and Torture
27 February 2021
A Simple Prayer
23 February 2021
Still Dreaming
19 February 2021
Note to a Fellow Poet on Subtlety and Silence
16 February 2021
Behind the Mask,
14 February 2021
Ten Letters
10 February 2021
In Praise of Chakka Jam
7 February 2021
Change
6 February 2021
Community Service
4 February 2021
Postcard from 2019
1 February 2021
Ghazal for a Capital in Darkness
30 January 2021
A Question for the Court
28 January 2021
Like That Cat, or Our Constitution,
26 January 2021
Three Haiku
26 January 2021
An Outbreak of Rust
21 January 2021
You’ll Join Us, I Know, My Friend
14 January 2021
My Mother Calls With Her Worries
11 January 2021
Lost in Translation
4 January 2021
The Moon the MHA and Agent Orange
3 January 2021
Kiss
29 December 2020
Unshakeable
24 December 2020
13 Ways of Looking at a Farmer
19 December 2020
This Number Does Not Exist
17 December 2020
Love Jihad
11 December 2020
City Edition, 7 Am
9 December 2020
Amended Ruling
2 December 2020
Simple Definitions
2 December 2020
Nightfall at Singhu Border
30 November 2020
Three Haiku
28 November 2020
Perhaps It’s Best
25 November 2020
Three Photos
18 November 2020
Worried Blues Pantoum
13 November 2020
Let Us All Rest in the Company of Those Who Love Us
6 November 2020
As the NIA Raids NGOs in Delhi and Kashmir
30 October 2020
I Fall Asleep Reading a Poem by Akhil Katyal
24 October 2020
Make Us Remember
17 October 2020
A Lesson for Future Fascists
6 October 2020
Breaking
3 October 2020
I Think of Umar Khalid
22 September 2020
Lifted and Carried
19 September 2020
आवारा हैं
30 August 2020
Under a Midsummer Night’s Moon
23 August 2020
Winter Harvest
19 August 2020
With All Due Respect to the Court
16 August 2020
Pinjra Tod
13 August 2020
Only Together Can We Bring It
5 August 2020
Last Week, in Hauz Rani Forest
3 August 2020
Change of Seasons
29 July 2020
First, We Will Dream It
27 July 2020
Man Sits Proudly on a Big Bike
23 July 2020
Welcoming the Storm
22 July 2020
False Narratives
19 July 2020
The Delhi CM’s Dilemma
16 July 2020
Varavara Rao Came to Delhi Last Night
13 July 2020
Clarification Required
11 July 2020
Aandhi Coming, Beware
10 July 2020
So Long
6 July 2020
Popularity Contest
3 July 2020
What Matters
29 June 2020
Now, They Are Coming for the Doctors
28 June 2020
Imagine a Fitting Response
26 June 2020
There Are Many Ways To Eat
24 June 2020
Catching Up in Strange Times
21 June 2020
He Does Most of His Work in the Dark
17 June 2020
Someday We’ll Remember How We Came Through This Together
14 June 2020
Late Last Night
10 June 2020
I Want To Go Back, Let’s Go Back
7 June 2020
Three Haiku (#SafooraZargar)
5 June 2020
I Couldn’t Follow Everything They Said
4 June 2020
Two Memos
2 June 2020
Ninety-nine Days After the Delhi Pogrom, While America Burned,
1 June 2020
News on the Street
30 May 2020
A Modest Manifesto
25 May 2020
What to Sing the Banks Collapse
20 May 2020
PM, Care
17 May 2020
Green
12 May 2020
Lockdown Lullaby
11 May 2020
Weather Report
5 May 2020
Delhi Lockdown, 8:45 pm
3 May 2020
Dear Comrade Marx,
1 May 2020
A Map of Our Love and a Promise
29 April 2020
Let’s Not Forget What’s Coming Next
27 April 2020
Refuge of the World
21 April 2020
How Many, How Long?
14 April 2020
It’s Time We Drew Some Lines
8 April 2020
Don’t Complain, Just Breathe!
7 April 2020
Suddenly, Rage
6 April 2020
Stranded
5 April 2020
Small Confession
3 April 2020
This Virus Is a Beginning, Not the End
1 April 2020
Some of Us, Friends
29 March 2020
Waiting at the Station
27 March 2020
It’s Simple When You Think About It
25 March 2020
Now We Must Depend on Those Who Are Near
23 March 2020
Letter From Our Future
22 March 2020
What’s Playing Now
18 March 2020
What to Say: A Letter To Our Leaders
16 March 2020
Tipping
14 March 2020
Abstract: How it Changes Our Focus
12 March 2020
We Cannot Fail to Write Love Poems
10 March 2020
In the Early Days of the Delhi Fires
8 March 2020
Desh ke Gaddaron Ko
6 March 2020
Fever Dreams and Rumours
2 March 2020
One More Precious Thing’s Been Sold
29 February 2020
The Importance of Silence
(or What Is To Be Done, Friends)
27 February 2020
We Must Insist on Saying
Unspeakable Things
24 February 2020
Three Haiku
24 February 2020
Pakistan Zindabad?
22 February 2020
How to Be a Home Minister
20 February 2020
You Always Dream It Before It Arrives
18 February 2020
We Have Been Here Before
16 February 2020
Someday, After the Fire
13 February 2020
Beyond the Horizon
11 February 2020
What They’ve Been Feeding Us
9 February 2020
Rupture
9 February 2020
For an Undecided Autowala on Aurobindo Marg
7 February 2020
It Is Difficult To Remember What Comes Next
6 February 2020
Tender Comrade
4 February 2020
Striding Man
2 February 2020
Speak
1 February 2020
A Seditious Song!
31 January 2020
The Anti-Corruption CM Speaks his Mind
29 January 2020
That One is an Animal
29 January 2020
In Praise of Azadi
27 January 2020
Republic Day Bad Translation Blues
26 January 2020
There are Other Names For These Things
24 January 2020
Eclipse
22 January 2020
December 20: Rising
18 January 2020
Mandi House
18 January 2020
Not a Poem or a Song
15 January 2020
It’s Important to Note She’s a Muslim, Hamraaz
12 January 2020
Hard Fruit
12 January 2020
In the Beginning
12 January 2020
On the Day of the Verdict
12 January 2020
Abrogated
12 January 2020

The PM Addresses Farmers: An Excerpt

Published by Hamraaz on 21-05-2021

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