the poet "Dinkar" is dead but I can read his mind
these lines were published in 1952
india enacted the Habitual Offenders Act
peak casteism
icons like him didn’t just write history
they dared to rewrite the future.
where are our Dinkars now?
it's almost irresistible to blame something or someone else
to shift responsibility away from ourselves
to look for the control knob, the product, the technical fix that will make the problem go away
the world can be seen through the lens of the human eye
through the lens of biology
through the lens of chemistry and physics
through the lens of economics
through the lens of systems theory.
each way of seeing allows our knowledge of the complex world in which we live, to