Author: RA

​This note was written by Dad in 2004 possibly after his third heart attack. Having written it, he (or someone else) tore it in four pieces and yet hid the pieces in next year’s diary. Why, I have no idea! (I taped the pieces together and saved it) Any way all 13 points are interesting (it is another thing that point 11 is missing). What is important is point 12 where he mentions you, and it goes: “12. My wish to be once again with my second son at Canada to see his new own office/house or immigration.” <For T2>

​दुनिया है कि गोशा-ए-जहन्नम
हर वक़्त अज़ाब-ए-इलाही तौबा
​  – ​शमीम जयपुरी

Even when there are no strings
you are still a Puppet
frail, exposed, vulnerable 
paper glued to a bamboo stick
hanging on the wall
your life a game
soulless, voiceless
your limbs at mercy – creek
your raised arm 
a tame shallow protest 
your knees bent limp 
in listless surrender
to the ruthless regime.

We, the Puppets of  the land
Resolve, to hang by the wall.

– RA, 12 May 2022