The medieval period is the darkest period
Of Indian history
Whatever say you about it,
I shall not contradict,
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There is nothing in history,
Just the historians like to take the credit from,
Full of treachery, loot, plunder and destruction,
The barbarians taking time to finish it all
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The history of earth, the existence of life on it, the circumstances of it,
The world spread over, I know them not,
What it is life, how the things of it, I know them not,
How earth has come up, what had it been before
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The medieval period is the darkest period
Of Indian history,
It was a time of loot, plunder, invasion
And rape,
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The history of sound want I to relate to, refer to
As I know it not,
How did the sound break in for the first time,
Echoing in the cosmos,
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Gandhi, Gandhi, Gandhi,
Mahatma Gandhi on everything,
Seeing it,
Sometimes think I,
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We do not know them,
Just give the credit
To kings and queens,
Who are actually those
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The history makers get it not
The credit
For art and artifacts,
Sculptures and figurines,
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One of loot, plunder and upheaval,
The kings were foreigners
But the public Indians
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The history of earth
know I not,
how old is this earth,
how old this creation!
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I see the golden statue of Radha and Krishna
Found from the ruins, debris and rubble
Of the terracotta temples,
The broken pillars and columns
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The history of Delhi is not the history of India
As presume we, assume we
As what more do we know
About Bengal and Orissa?
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History, culture, politics
To nationalism, statehood,
Drafting of resolutions
To the bills to charters
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I writing the history of sadness,
Human sadness,
Sadness befalling humanity
And mankind reeling under,
...
I think about
Sorrow,
The sorrow of man,
Sorrow,
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Eco-poetry, eco-friendly poetry,
Eco-couscous poetry,
Talk I, talk I
Environmental-friendly poetry,
...
Historical belies and motifs,
Archetypal myths and mysticism
Haunting the self, the psyche
Just like the spooky tales
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I cannot deflect from my poetry
Though I may take the humanitarian stand,
Cultural history and its paradigms
I cannot banish from my treatise
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What was it Canada,
How is it today,
How are they
The indigenous peoples
...
A study in carbon copies,
A handful of poems
Imitative and derivative
By nature,
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The history
Of devastated and distraught
Mankind,
How to write it
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History of Earth,
How old is this,
Who to tell me?
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What is history?
The story of life on earth,
Times gone by,
Eras slipped.
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History is a record of
Past events and happenings
Recorded or unrecorded
Or conjectured,
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Akshara-bodh,
Smriti-rekha se
Buddhi-vikas.
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History of the States,
The United States of America,
Who came from where,
Who settled where
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I shall not vacate it the chair,
I have not
Heard it all
In the history
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How had it been the clocks,
Tower clocks,
Table clocks,
Wall clocks,
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Indian English novels,
What to say about
If English itself is not our own,
Desi not, videshi,
...
Beef, beef, beef,
Take you
And write
The history of
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Only Romila Thapar knows it history
And all others do not,
How can it be,
Was history not written before,
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History is but a narrative
Of art, culture, society and times
Which but the historians know it not,
But collected from
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The history of the freedom movement
The Indian sepoys writing,
Dhotiwearing,
Moustache-twirling
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History of earth,
History of life,
History of man,
History of time,
...
The history of Indian English poetry demonstrates it well
The first-poem writers and first-book publishers
Are the poets and poetesses of it
Self-published, self-proclaimed,
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Nagalnd,
The land of the Nagas
I knew it not,
None told me too
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History,
History of the earth,
History of time,
History of life,
...
History is but yesterday's politics,
Life and culture,
Human civilization and its existence,
History is history,
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History is not history
What man writes,
History is hidden under earth,
Excavate you, dig you the things
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The woman under the ghunghata,
Purdah,
Behind the curtain,
Loot, plunder, rape, violence, bloodshed
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