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jarred by his lullabies
she stayed up so many nights
clinging on screaming out
just wishing sleep would come

he was hunting for sleep too
but sleep often deserts the hunter
jarred by his memories
drinking himself to sleep

she was waiting for sleep too
a new beginning was waiting to dawn
but the sun rises with the senses
both cling on...waiting for sleep to come

India Gate to Jantar Mantar : in support of the Jal Samadhi

solidarity march date: Wednesday : 12th September 2012/ 7.30 pm. Meeting at India Gate. 

Right at the heart of a nation that calls itself India, in a pilgrimage spot revered by all the Hindus, there is a jal satyagraha taking place. In the backwaters of the Omkareshwar and Indira Sagar damn...hundreds of people are ready to die. As the government of India, and Madhya Pradesh violates a basic humanitarian laws and the principals of rehabilitation and justice.

This large scale, non violent mobilisation of people fighting to protect their land, life and culture has been blanked out in the mainstream media, and is only now begun circulation in social media networks. The submergence of land that is being done by raising the water levels of the omkareshwar and indira sagar damns is being done in the name of development and for the alleged comfort of urban India.

you can see the land and the dam...large almost unimaginable large areas of forestland, tribal cultural terrains...fertile agarian lands....homes memories...timber....minerals....will all be submerged ....for whom...for what?

It is well known that large damns are a failed developmental pipe dream...but they support huge amounts of corruption...hundreds of billions of rupees are being paid in bribes...for pushing across prjects that cause damge which just cannot be measured by money.

many of my friends are a prt of this satyagraha in Omkareshwar....being forced to put their body on line....to stop a loot that is being done in our name.


planning nothing ambitious....need to give our friends who are members of the mainstream press an excuse to write and push their editors....we will get jantar mantar permissions....a projector...and some solidarity..

lets see where we go from here...might evn manage to screen some documentaries...have a open call for performance.........

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