[Reader-list] Fwd: [northeastjournos] The Poem IIC Journal & OUP Book Censored

[Uddipana Goswami]

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> Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 13:37:10 +0100 (BST)
> Subject: [northeastjournos] The Poem IIC Journal &
> OUP Book Censored
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> I Want to be Killed by an Indian Bullet
>
>                                    Thangjam
> Ibopishak
>
>
> I heard the news long ago that they were looking for
> me; in the morning in the afternoon at night. My
> children told me; my wife told me.
>       One morning they entered my drawing room, the five
> of
> them. Fire, water, air, earth, sky - are the names
> of
> these five. They can create men; also destroy men at
> whim. They do whatever they fancy. The very avatar
> of
> might.
>       I ask them: "When will you kill me?"
>       The leader replied: "Now. We'll kill
> you
> right now. Today is very auspicious. Say your
> prayers.
> Have you bathed? Have you had your meal?"
>       "Why will you kill me? What is my crime? What
> evil deed have I done?" I asked them again.
>       "Are you a poet who pens gobbledygook and
> drivel? Or do you consider yourself a seer with
> oracular powers? Or are you a madman?" asked
> the
> leader.
>       "I know that I'm neither of the first
> two
> beings. I cannot tell you about the last one. How
> can
> I myself tell whether I'm unhinged or
> not?"
>       The leader said: "You can be whatever you
> would
> like to be. We are not concerned about this or that.
> We will kill you now. Our mission is to kill
> men."
>       I ask: "In what manner will you kill me? Will
> you cut me with a knife? Will you shoot me? Will you
> club me to death?"
>       "We will shoot you."
>       "With which gun will you shoot me then? Made
> in
> India, or made in another country?"
>       "Foreign made. All of them made in Germany,
> made in Russia, or made in China. We don't use
> guns made in India. Let alone good guns, India
> cannot
> even make plastic flowers. When asked to make
> plastic
> flowers India can only produce toothbrushes."
>       I said: "That's a good thing. Of what
> use
> are plastic flowers without any fragrance?"
>       The leader said: "No one keeps toothbrushes
> in
> vases to do up a room. In life a little
> embellishment
> has its part."
>       "Whatever it may be, if you must shoot me
> please shoot me with a gun made in India. I
> don't want to die from a foreign bullet. You
> see, I love India very much."
>       "That can never be. Your wish cannot be
> granted. Don't ever mention Bharat to
> us."
>       Saying this, they left without killing me; as if
> they
> didn't do anything at all. Being fastidious
> about death I escaped with my life.
>
>
>
>
>
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