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The Ugly Conscience
The Ugly Conscience
By Subhash Rabindra Jha
It’s been a long time
sixty-three years to be precise,
and a long wait.
The country’s free, they say
not for me.
Still longing for freedom, I am
hoping against hope to partake of “my” dignity, respect, long overdue
starving off all these, still, after all these years.
I’ve been through all
in whatever little “life” I’ve had,
if I could use the word.
Having managed to escape
the ugly clutches of some beasts the other day,
I ran myself into another set
that saw a prey in me
and raped me incessantly
with...