In this fire, not only innocents and our loved ones are burning, humanity itself is burning.
Jagdeesh Ahuja
If humanity could survive this fire, and your arrogance, your worst form of governance, and your politics of hatred were reduced to ashes!
In this fire, not only innocents and our loved ones are burning, humanity itself is burning.
In this fire, not only humanity is burning, the very soul of the Earth is burning.
And yet your arrogance is such that it does not even stir your conscience.
It is nothing but sheer arrogance, believing that offerings at the altar of Lakshmi Devi, the Goddess of Wealth, will calm everyone’s anger, and that you will continue to rule as before.
If only, from this fire, the wrath of Sindhu Devta, Lord Shiva were to rise and reduce all the palaces of your rule to ashes.
It is said that whenever tyrannical and arrogant rulers dominate this land, and the cries of the oppressed rise from the earth to the skies, then with thunder and roar, Lord Shiva becomes a whirlwind of fire, performs the Tandava, and burns the palaces of the oppressors to cinders.
If only something like that were to happen now.
The fire in which our loved ones are being burned alive today, if only in that same fire your entire existence, your structure of oppression, were reduced to ashes, and the sun of a new world was to rise:
The sun of humanity, the reign of motherly compassion.
Because only a mother knows the river of fire she must pass through to give birth to new life.
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Hailing from Larkana, Jagdeesh Ahuja is based in Karachi, Sindh. Politics, history, international relations, and philosophy are his areas of interest. He is a columnist and author of several books. Additionally, he is the founding president of the Sindhu Vas Foundation and a leader of the Sindh United Party. He played the lead role in the documentary film Still Standing (‘اڃان بہ قائم’), produced by the British company Pinch Media, which focuses on Sindh and the Sindhi community.
