I say Amen to that rhetorical question and here is some thing I wrote about a year ago:
Where are the tears?
To the ones defeated
There is much sorrow and grief over those who left their cosy homes to fight a gruesome war in a land far away, never to return alive.
I share this grief and bow n silent commiseration, hoping that ere long madness will give way to sanity and grace but only to learn again that Macbeths do seldom retract their bloody course.
So much for the ones who are always right.
But what about the ones whose land they invaded, whose homes they ravaged, whose supplies they cut off, whose women they dishonoured, whose children they did kill?
Should they be left without a melodious tear or two?
I was very happy to have your valuable readership and comments on this article. This was a topic close to my heart and my first short story and first post in Sulekha.
This piece appears in 'creative', so I take it for granted that it is fiction.
I have read other comments, so I am a bit apprehensive about raising my lone voice of dissent. However, I am a free spirit, as free as the bird that said kank kyu.
I just wonder what justification the character in this story has for setting free a parakeet that did NOT belong to him and thus abusing the hospitality of his friend, whom it belonged.
I also wonder why he did not set the dog Pirate also free.
I am sorry if I have hurt other people's feelings by asking these questions.
Whats driving me crazy is i couldn't find any of you guys all these years. If my name rings any bells of familiarity in you..........buzz back. Sanjay Madnani
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