(published in Five Issues: A journal of performance texts)
How many men must a woman bed
Before you call her a whore?
How many times must a woman refuse
Before she is asked no more?
How many times must a swan sweep down
Before you call it a rape?
How many Manoramas must be raped
Before they cease to be called encounter deaths?
How many times must you strip her in the streets
Before she takes to the street?
The answer, my friend, is perhaps blowing in the wind.
Note:
line 7: Manorama is the Manipuri lady raped and shot dead by Indian Army
line 9: Refers to the clash between the tea-garden labourer community and the local Assamese in the city of Guwahati
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