On Visarjan
Does their religion awaken
If we lose sleep
Over drums banging doom
And voices sloganeering threats
to crescents and stars?
Does their god enjoy
Being paraded
Like an emblem
of victories imagined
and temples of epic kings?
Their pink gulaal clings
to the soles of my chappals
with greater authority every year.
No matter how much
I avoid stepping on it.
Saee Koranne-Khandekar
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