[Reader-list] THE CAVE. the jamia shootings

[shakeb ahmed]

THE CAVE
I see a cave in the forest, in the thick of night’s fog. It’s a black beast fog. Every portent now and then I see a club of ghoul figures walking a solitary skull-capped frame into the ember mouthed cave. There are screams. The screams echo, and boom, in the endlessly stretching miasma of night. Some moments of silence, and the capped figured is walked out, it now turned into a white chalky, blood-drained cleaved walking stem…it whimpers, and it growls a deep painy growl. The stem dragged away, soon the function of the stem takes a material shape: its another skull-capped frame walked into the ember mouthed cave; the function would repeat! There are special cells in the cave, and a voice whispers: stitch the lips! Hear the cavernous boom….

tv truths:
Many new arrests are being made two days after the death of Mohan Chand the martyr. The caretaker of L18 apartment who looked very scared and at the first instant doing the appropriate thing produced the Rent Agreement is under arrest now. Under arrest is also the boy who, a day earlier on tv, was seen saying Atif was another regular boy with interest in girls and other things his age boys are normally after. Arrested is also the other boy seen whisked away by police in the rains under black skies who chose to surrender at a tv office…All are confirmed terrorist as per the Voice-of-God police version and its blind replicators the ever vigilant supraintelligent tv boys and girls. Apparently every day new arrests are made from the people who tv used as byte-mouths day before, and phenomenal is the success rate of the police that these captives confess the evil in their heart and deeds immediately once taken in…

September 21st 2008