always everywhere, yet absent
Bricks, Sand, Cement, Soil, Live Sadabahar Plant
2022
This plant is called ‘sadabahar’ or ‘always prosperous’ because it grows anywhere and everywhere.
In the mundane, abject survival is masked as eternal abundance.
Like this plant, poeple subjected to oppressed-castes are expected to survive anyhow, in abject lacks, while always pridefullly believing with in the namesake ‘eternity’ of the ‘eternal-laws’ that oppresses them.
How sad it is
that you are called “sadabahar” [ever-prosperous]
only
because you can
grow
in abject poverty
No
No revolutionary movements in the thick of Raat’s streets
No books, no slogans, no promises
Looking at the “sadabahar” is how Raat learned
about what oppression is, hidden as nothing
Who hides it?
Who names it?
Who hides in names?
No-thing (that’s how Raat spoke “No-thing”; cultureless accent)