The Young India

Kartikey Sehgal

It takes only 2 photos to understand. Plus, enjoy the poem at the end.

This is slutwalk-Delhi’s founder Umang Sabarwal’s Facebook profile photo [edit: changed today]. And this is what the movement is really about.   

[the smileys are my creations]

Sometimes, fun things indicate much more.

Male-shaming

Starts at school. Makes minions out of men.

This is:

a. a regular photo. nothing to read into.

b. a photo designed to imply servility – man looking up to woman

c. role-reversal: woman as ‘Romeo’ …

Kartikey Sehgal

Fragrant flowers along the river
let their fragrance bathe us
we are at one with oblivion
till human voices wake us

the boat, it rows, a-lone.
the poets walk the shore
the boat passes –

time is anathema to life
and the flowers take a lifetime
to fill our hearts with joy
we are at one with oblivion
till human voices wake us

the bird, it flies, a-far.
the poets walk the shore
the bird passes –

- often chirping songs of joy …

read nice poems written by Benita and Shaili


“Writing a poem is discovering”
Robert Frost