Raju Z Moray in his poetic style reflects upon the continued incarceration of human rights activists, intellectuals, writers, journalists, and the denial of adequate medical treatment to Dr. Varavara Rao who had to petition the Bombay High Court to avail it.
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A sick man needs treatment
It’s a basic human right
But we are living in times
Where this requires a fight!
Why should dissenters
Be locked up in jail?
Why should activists
Be repeatedly denied bail?
There is another India
Overlooked out of choice
It’s to their sorry plight
The jailed were giving voice
Writers,lawyers,teachers
Mainly an intellectual lot
Find themselves behind bars
Accused of a sinister plot
Even the priest and the poet
Have not been spared
Their crime basically is that
To question they have dared
Any attempt to free them
Meets staunch opposition
Merely on basis of suspicion
They are threats to the Nation!
Comrades used to darkness
Wait patiently for some light
Hoping Law meets Justice
They continue with the fight
If Constitution springs to life
Injustices will have to die
Till then we ask Milords
Why are you silent,why..?
(Raju Z Moray is an advocate who practices law in the Bombay High Court when not puncturing bloated egos. He is the creator of ‘Gobble D. Gook’, his alter-ego, who figured in the ‘Court Jester’ columns of ‘The Lawyers’.)
