An idea is a a door inside the wall
It arrives without footsteps: a whisper in the dark
A stranger who knows the way home
It disturbs the furniture of certainty
A seed which remembers how to break the stone
A forgotten advice that slept beneath centuries
Power-holders love to jail,
ban, cut down, throttle, muzzle,
bomb, fire, attack
anything that speaks,
anything that breathes.
But words slip through bars
songs cross borders
memory refuses orders.
The gun may silence a voice,
never the echo.
Even a passing glance would do
I am somewhere near you
folded, crumpled
like a letter no one opens.
Know me
so I can know you
I am the beginning
leaning toward the end
we have so little time
yet we still have time
not to know the breathless stranger
next door.
September has to go.
it came with rain and rumours,
with children shedding fear too early
the constitution lying soggy
a song survived the loudspeakers
we buried a few dreams
rescued a few words
September has to go—
even if the darkness
must move toward another month
It’s a difficult republic,
Where questions lose their voices,
where fear patrols the street,
yet somewhere hearts keep beating
to an old, unfinished beat.
The night may call itself eternal,
the tyrant may decree—
but every step that says “No”
keeps the republic free.
This is my first day on X—
where every thought becomes a text,
where truth can whisper, rumours shout,
and everyone can speak it out.
I’ll read the noise, I’ll test the claim,
I’ll disagree without the flame.
Perhaps somewhere, beneath the din,
a conversation might begin.
Treat the street better—
it knows our feet,
it knows our beat,
it chants the names
we dare not speak.
It holds our anger,
carries our prayer,
turns scattered footsteps
into a shared air.
The street remembers,
Street replies—
when people walk together,
silence loses its disguise.
India’s transformation will come through agitational politics, as democracy has been deinstitutionalised. It must return to the street, as it has lately, where citizens collectively articulate dissent, defend rights, challenge injustice, and demand accountability.
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