Mungamuri Kranthi Kumar
Corona doesn’t know any Caste or Religion,
Says Hindutva.
It is a blatant lie,
It is Brahminical Morality
Mocking thousand of years of Bahujan pain and agony.
Caste Hindus snatched my land
Tortured and killed me in my Untouchable village;
Thousands of years of Caste Hindu Untouchability
Thousands of years of Caste Hindu Exploitation,
My abject poverty caused by Hindu Spiritual Fascism
Made me a Migrant
And
Corona Knows My Caste
Corona Knows My Religion.
I am left on the road
I am beaten on the road
Trains don’t take me home
Buses don’t take me home,
To restrain me from reaching my parents
Because I am an Untouchable Migrant
And
Corona Knows my Caste
Corona Knows my Religion.
Indian airlines have become Caste Hindu airlines
Indian hospitals have become Caste Hindu Quarantines
Indian Marketplaces have become Caste Hindu Marketplaces,
Manus offspring’s run the government
Corona Knows My Caste
Corona Knows My Religion.
For the Caste Hindus,
My lockdown is Nationalism
My lockdown is Patriotism
My hunger is delicious food
My thirst is sweet nectar
My sleepless nights are a good night’s sleep
My tears are a wine party.
For Caste Hindus,
My unbearable pain is infinite happiness
Corona Knows my Caste
Corona Knows my Religion.
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Mungamuri Kranthi Kumar is a research scholar at Centre For The Study Of Social Systems, JNU, New Delhi. He is a BAPSA activist.
