construction on campus

how disappointing
when you
reach atop
and find
the trees
have been
felled for
the new
structure to
rise up

armed role models

‘When you ask a young child “what is your aim?”
he will answer either that he wants to be a police commando
or he wants to be an armed revolutionary.
Because,’ Arun had smiled,
‘these armed people are the most powerful people.’

Sudeep Chakravarti in Highway39