Poem: Do you know why we are anti- “DEVELOPMENT”?

Poem: Do you know why we are anti- “DEVELOPMENT”?

By Lalit Shukla

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Smelling bauxite in our mountains

Monstrous roads are approaching to our villages

People crossing the road shiver with fear.

Masters of “DEMOCRACY” come on these roads

Waving flag of “DEVELOPMENT”

To connect our “BACKWARD” people to “MAINSTREAM”.

On the same roads

Every day we see trucks full of armed forces

Coming to our villages

To save us from “MAOIST, NAXALITES, EXTREMISTS….”

By raping us, torturing us, killing us.

For “SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT” of country

It has been decided by “EMPIRE”

To blow off our mountains

To uproot our villages

We are advised to support “DEVELOPMENT” at any cost

We are asked to provide a good “INVESTMENT ENVIRONMENT”

We have to leave our beloved forests, our villages, our land…

Do you know why we are anti- “DEVELOPMENT”?

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