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Darkness has no color  - By Aahuti म कालो छु तर म अँध्यारो होइन अँध्यारोको त कुनै रङ्गै हुँदैन म रंगीन छु रंगहीन होइन अँध्यारोको त कुनै रङ्गै हुँदैन ! कालो छु वर्षा यामको बादलजस्तै अझै त्योभन्दा गाढा गाढा कालो छु शीरको तिम्रो केशजस्तै अझै त्योभन्दा गाढा गाढा उज्यालोमा भागीजाने म त्यो अँध्यारो हुँदै होइन रंगीन हुँ म रंगीन म कालो रंगको रंगीन ! म कालो छु तर म अँध्यारो हुँदै होइन । तिमी गोरो छौ मेरा चम्किला दाँतजस्तै अझै त्योभन्दा फिका फिका गोरो छौ टल्किरहेको ढुंगाजस्तै अझै त्योभन्दा फिका फिका अँध्यारोमा हराइजाने तिम्रो रंग उज्यालो हुँदै होइन रंगीन हौ केवल रंगीन तिमी गोरो रंगको रंगीन ! तिमी गोरो छौ तर उज्यालो हुँदै होइन। म कालो छु.......... I might be black Yet, I am not dark Darkness has no color I am colorful Not colorless Darkness has no color. I am dark like monsoon rain Even darker Like those waving hair on your head I am not the darkness that fizzles away in the light Color, I am colorful I am color of black Black I am Yet, not darkness You are white like my shining teeth

Today, I’m Coming Out As Dalit Yashica Dutt · Wednesday, January 20, 2016 Rohith Vemula, the Dalit scholar from Hyderabad Central University who took his own life on January 18th, wanted to write about the stars. His mind was a ‘glorious thing made of stardust’, whose proof he left in his last letter to the world. In life, his education – a chunk of it financed by his mother’s earnings as a tailor – was an act of rebellion. In death, he blazed a trail on Dalit rights, whose brightness refuses to be ignored. By the media, by the bureaucracy, by the Internet and by me. I was born in a Dalit family in Ajmer, Rajasthan. And I grew up learning to hide it. My convent school education, a non-Dalit sounding last name, and a skin color that was ‘dusky but still not dirty’ eased my passing as a non-Dalit. “Beta, what caste are you from?” “Aunty, Brahmin.” A lie I spoke so often and with such conviction, that I not only fooled my friends’ mothers but even myself. But I couldn’t foo

  Darkness Has No Color - Aahuti  I might be black Yet, I am not dark Darkness has no color I am colorful Not colorless Darkness has no color. I am dark like monsoon rain Even darker Like those waving hair on your head I am not the darkness that fizzles away in the light Color, I am colorful I am color of black Black I am Yet, not darkness You are white like my shining teeth Or fading white like a glaring piece of rock Or even fading white that vanishes in the darkness The color you have that is Definitely not white White you are Just white But you are not the light Colorful you are Just the color of white Yet, you are not light I am black……

एकपाटे अनुहार  गुरुङ सुशान्त जसरी समाज र राजनीतिको सालनाल जोडिएको हुन्छ, उसैगरी साहित्य र राजनीतिको साइनो पनि पराईको हुँदैन । भनिन्छ, विशिष्ट सौन्दर्य-मूल्यसहित राजनीति साहित्य हो र साहित्य राजनीति । कतिपय कलावादी साहित्यमा राजनीति नहुने सतही तर्क गरी सामाजिक जिम्मेवारीबाट पन्छिन खोज्छन् । ती कला-व्यापारबाट यथास्थितिवादको शोषकीय मठ-मन्दिरको संरक्षण-सम्वद्र्धन गर्न चाहने हुँदा साहित्यले गर्ने मानवीय राजनीतिलाई कम आँक्छन् । कोरा र बोक्रे ठेक्कापट्टावाल संसदीय खेललाई मात्र राजनीति ठान्ने कलावादीले साहित्यमा राजनीति घुसाउन नहुने जिकिर गर्दै घुमाउरो राजनीति नै गरिरहेका हुन्छन् । विचारधाराको व्यावहारिक प्रयोग गर्ने राजनीतिसमेतलाई हस्तक्षेपकारी प्रभाव दिनसक्ने लेखकहरूले साहित्यमा हुने सूक्ष्म राजनीतिक प्रयोगसमेतलाई इन्कार गर्नु नै सामाजिक विडम्बनाको पलायनमुखी स्वरूप हो । पहिलो र अन्तिम प्रश्न यत्ति हो- वैचारिक÷राजनीतिक रचना कलात्मक छ कि छैन ? लेखक खगेन्द्र संग्रौला भन्छन्, 'साहित्यले गर्ने राजनीतिमा राजनीति हुने तर साहित्य नहुने जोखिमचाहिँ रहिरहन्छ ।' हामी लेखनबाट कुनै न कुनै