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A Legacy Of Resilience: Ratan Tata’s Silent Obituary

A collection of poems on the mixed legacy of Ratan Tata

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Liberals

Wearing Che Guevara t-shirt

They mourn the loss of Ratan Tata.

They write Revolution on word pad

And in between Market and Modi win.

Nouveau Marxists Of Bengal

Their pens are as sharp

as their practicing of Marx.

They are not at all partisan in writing obituaries:

Tata , Birla and all that jazz

They write obituaries for all.

Marx has never been killed so many times!

The Final Obituary

Rot in Pieces

In the dumped boiler ash of Jugsalai

And no crow will sing for you

In the morning

Only the steel factories’ grinding sounds.

The Silent Obituary

All the displaced lacworms of

the Kosam trees, the maimed children

of Bhopal, and the dead mothers of Gaza,

and all the displaced Adivasis sing in chorus:

No capitalist is good

Dead or alive.

They never die

Until and unless

Some bullets hit on 

the head of Capitalism.