In memory of the 2000 men women and children killed in the state led genocide of Gujarat in 2002, and the 200,000 who lost their homes and dignity
Shame
I should be ashamed
of raising issues that divide
-they say.
But how can I forget
those they killed
mutilated and those they left
still hiding their nakedness .
I will shout from the rooftops
make memorials of poems
I will draw from the eyes
of the killers
not blood, but tears.
Ashok Gupta, October 2007, Vadodara Gujarat