On the occasion of March 18, the international day for the freedom of political prisoners, we would like to publish a poem from India. The author is the political prisoner Varavara Rao, a well -known democratic and revolutionary fighter. His poem "reflections" shows the relationship between political prisoners and the revolutionary movement in a language manner. As in the case of Varavara Raos, they are often imprisoned as representatives, with the aim of weakening the movement and intimidating them.
The opposite is usually the case, as is the case here using the example of India, and massive solidarity with the political prisoners is expressed. A great success was recently achieved and the Indian political prisoner Professor G.N. Saibaba was released (we reported: LINK ). Freedom for Varavara Rao! Freedom for all political prisoners!
The reflection
I didn't deliver this explosive
And not the ideas for it either
You were, the ones with iron boots
on the ants hill entered
And from the trampled earth
Grew the ideas of the revenge
You were who hit the bee nest
With your lathi
The sound of the swarming bees
Exploded into your crumbling facade
The red was of fear
When the drum of victory began to beat
In the heart of the masses
Have you mistaken it for a single person,
and reached for your rifles
But the echo of the revolution sounds
From all directions from the horizon!
(Varavar Rao)
Image source : Varavar Rao, Bathini Vinay Kumar Gaur - CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED