Farmers' Stir 2020: 'Rashtrahit' and 'kisanhit' lollipops fail

I express my views and feelings on current farmers’ stir through a non-poem and sketch note.

NON-POEM

The current peasant movement -

Peaceful farmers' protest 2020 -

It's cold fury,

Silent uprising -

To reclaim peasants' rights

To restore human rights

To rollback the Black Farm Acts.

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The anti-farmer and pro-corporate agriculture bills

Meant to colonise farmland

To make farmers

Servile of

Ponzi corporate-run economy

That turns

Farmers and farmland owners -

Dhartiputras and Annadatas -

Into labour force

To enhance ponzi economy

To perpetuate misrule

During hard times

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Farmers have awakened

Their rock solid movement

Withstood all

Barricading, pit falling, bulldozing, tear gassing, water cannoning

Pre-emptied all

Divisionary, distracting and discrediting tactics

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The movement has sent shivers

Up the spine

Of rulers

Who took them for granted

And tried to trick them

And hoodwink them

With 'Kishanhit' tag for the Bills

With ‘gift voucher’ from the rulers

But wise, calm, collected farmers now

Know the difference

Between 'Kishanhit' and 'Kisan-Hit'

‘Munh mein ram-ram, bagal mein chhuri’