Give five paisa, take five curses
A Current of Blood is one of the finest books Navayana has produced. It is a collection of Namdeo Dhasal’s best poems, translated into English by Dilip Chitre. In it you will find “On the Way to the Dargah”:
A leaking sun
Went burning out
Into the night’s embrace
When I was born
On a pavement
In crumpled rags—
And became orphaned—
The one who gave birth to me
Went to our father in heaven
She was tired of the harassing ghosts in the streets
She wanted to wash off the darkness in her sari
And I grew up
Like a human with his fuse blown up
On the shit in the stree
Saying, ‘Give five paisa,
Take five curses’
On the way to the dargah.
In an indifferent world, the ideas we hawk seem to fall on deaf ears and a conspiracy of silence reduces our convictions to raging derangement. And yet we persist with an innocent hope.
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