Volume 4 | Issue 2 | April - May
2010 |
- Editorial
- Editors Choice
- Poems
- Dr. Nilanshu Kumar Agarwal
- Dr. Sarojini Sahu
- Elsa Mathews
- Evie Shockley
- Farideh Hassan Zadeh( Mostafavi)
- Fide Erken
- Georgia Anne Banks Martin
- Jan Theuninck
- Joneve Mc Cormick
- Malaika King Albrecht
- S. N. Sandhya
- Uziyeri Cayci
- Wendy Vardaman
- Stories
- Interview
- Autobiography
- History
Cry of Draupadi*
Dr. Nilanshu Kumar Agarwal
Venomous vipers haunt me.
Stormy scorpions pervade me.
Lethal lizard lying before me.
Utter gloom, sheer horror.
Dark phobia, nasty despair in the atmosphere.
Like Draupadi cry I.
But no assistance from Gopala.
Only Dushashans and Duryodhans exist.
I am being disrobed.
I am being seduced.
My thighs violently pinched.
All are Dhritrashtras here.
No Bhim to consume Dushashan's blood.
Only Duryodhan, Dushashan, Shakuni
And Dhritrashtra surround me.
Alas! I am being defiled.
Kauravas laugh.
Dhritrashta's blindness has a method in it.
"She is very passionate.
She is a hungry whore.
She can satisfy all", says Dushashan.
Of course, she has satisfied all.
Scamsters, gangsters, brokers
Politicians, technicians and physicians.
All have touched her,
Slapped the fleshy organs,
Kissed the frail skin.
But, she is in tears.
Kohinoor is lost.
Past pristine glory can not be retrieved.
No national pride here.
No Gold in Olympic Games.
And no claim for the land occupied by the neighbour.
*According to classical epic Mahabharata, Pandavas and Kauravas were cousins. Draupadi was the wife of the Pandavas. The Pandavas lost Draupadi to the Kauravas in the gamble. The chief of the Kauravas were Duryodhana and Dushashan. They were supported by their maternal uncle Shakuni and blind father Dhritrashtra. When Draupadi was lost in the game of dice, Dushashan tried to disrobe her. At that time Lord Krishna, the Gopala protected her by providing her with an unending Sari (an Indian dress). Later on, one of the Pandavas drank the blood of Dushashan to avenge the humiliation of Draupadi. In this poem, mother India is represented as Draupadi; while corrupt scamsters, gangsters, brokers, politicians, technicians and physicians are just like the Kauravas.
Dr. Nilanshu Kumar Agarwal - Dr.Nilanshu Kumar Agarwal was born on 19th of February,1973. The son of a
college Professor at Allahabad, Dr.Agarwal is currently Senior Lecturer in English
at Feroze Gandhi College, Rae Bareli, (U.P.) , India. He was awarded D.Phil
Degree by Allahabad University for his doctoral dissertation, entitled “T.S.Eliot’s
Poetry In The Light Of His Critical Thoughts”.
