My God, what sin have I that have You
A Bengali wife to me,
So critical, urban, selfish and narrow,
Hollow and shallow from her within,
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A lonely woman under the lonely nights,
That mad young woman.
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The village woman after the seven rounds
Around the sacred fire
And vermillion put into the parting line of the hair,
Clicking it not the name of her husband,
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A house when it is with
Is a house,
When not,
Is not a house.
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The tears of a woman,
Who has tried to understand,
Not even the son of a woman?
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The gipsy woman
With the poor
And humble gipsy girl-child,
I saw her
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If the woman is
The house is house
And if the same woman is not
The house not a house.
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Keeping her caged,
Rugged, turbaned and uncouth,
The fanatical, orthodox and conservative trafficker and the bootlegger
Go about seling her.
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You may call her, but I cannot call her a bad woman
As whom want I to call bad
May be good for you
As who knows
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Who made her a woman,
Who made her
A woman,
Just think you,
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A woman is a woman,
Be she a Muslim or a Hindu,
But it is a fact
We have oppressed them so much
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Kamala was more of a politician
than a poetess,
a woman politicking and politicking
with name and fame,
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Social justice and gender equality
Talk we, but allow we not
As we cannot compromise with
Our hegemony,
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Near the steps of the post-office counter,
Shaded from,
Saw I the poor gipsy woman
With the poor gipsy girl child,
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A woman
On the lonely path of life
Standing so helplessly
And going.
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A modern woman calling herself a poetess
Modern, colourful, painted and gay,
Bobbed, hi-fi, modn and contemporary,
Urban and of city space
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(Ek mahila ko bus mei tin-chaar baccho ke saath dekhakar)
Bacche bhagavan detei hain.
'Accha thik hai, tumhara koi dosh nahi.'
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It is but a woman's movement
And the heart bleeds,
Bleeds for them,
For the woman bleeding,
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A man,
A woman
In relationship
I saw them as carvings
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I saw the figurines and sculptures
In erotic love and relationship
At Khajuraho and Konark,
Sculptures and figurines
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You sit before
And let me take take your photographs,
A photographer of yours
I want to click a few mor photos,
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When a child
While going to school
Without any desire of going to,
I used to meet the scavenger women
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Who dressed you so,
Made you up for to look as thus
With a bindi spot on the forehead,
Collyrium into the eyes,
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Make I
Who lives in a hut,
Sleeps on the floor,
Works in the fields,
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I see her struggling all daylong,
A poor Dalit woman,
Working in her home,
Working in the master's house,
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House without woman,
Life without woman,
How to live it?
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I am a man,
She is a woman,
The difference.
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When I used to see her
Passing the red soiled way
At midday
When the sun used to shine
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Man without woman,
Woman without man,
Can one think of?
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Oh, you divorced her, divorced her,
A poor girl, a young girl,
Now say you, say you,
Where will she,
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Woman,
The tears
Which it fell from our eyes,
The world could not feel it
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The life of a woman
Only a woman
Can feel it,
Can say it
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The portrait of a woman
As an artist,
The artist as a young woman,
How to portray and paint it,
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Have you come to mark
Tears into
The eyes of hers,
Have you
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Whoever punishes, judges on the basis
Of chastity or purity,
Chaste or unchaste character
Is but mistaken
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The goat-keeping woman too
A minister in Bihar,
Not a minister,
But can be a chief minister
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The goat-woman, the sheep-man,
The cow-boy, the buffalo-man,
All leaders
In Bihar,
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Woman,
Your heart,
The pains of your heart,
I could not,
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In the train compartment
The eyes though unaware of
Fell upon
A woman,
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The man with the goats,
The woman with the goats,
Means those who graze them and keep,
They too are leaders in Bihar,
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The woman
Traditional and feministic,
Conservative and working,
Withing the Lakshmanrekha
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