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This Was Once Our Home
A spoken word piece post breakup.
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White Spaces
A spoken word piece on white privilege, and the discrimination of any 'other' that enters their white spaces
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Radio Transmission Reimagined
In 1947 when the British finally announced their departure from the subcontinent, Lord Mountbatten shared this announcement via a nation-wide radio transmission. This was then followed up by speeches by Jinnah and Gandhi respectively as well. Revisiting this historical moment, I went through the many versions of this transmission's transcript that are available online. Most of them are very similar, with a few words changes here or there. Taking the transcript that is available in British archives, this poem reimagines the same announcement read by the common person; not a politician, not a leader, not anyone who had any prestige attached to this moment. This erasure poem attempts at 'stripping away' the diplomacy, the sanitization of struggle, and the glorification of the violence that this moment led to, and instead leaves behind the few words that highlights who really suffers due to this decision.
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