𝐊𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐦𝐢𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧

 --Nasir Khan

When the dark forces of Hindutva fascism in Kashmir and Zionist colonialism in Palestine are mercilessly oppressing and destroying the captive populations of the two countries, it seems the dreams of freedom and independence have also become victims of the long knives of the oppressors.

A famous Afro-American writer and poet Langston Hughes (1902-1967) puts the trauma of the oppressed in the following poem.

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𝐎𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 - 𝐏𝐨𝐞𝐦 𝐛𝐲 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐧 𝐇𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐞𝐬

Now dreams

Are not available

To the dreamers,

Nor songs

To the singers.

In some lands

Dark night

And cold steel

Prevail

But the dream

Will come back,

And the song

Break

Its jail.

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