Today's News

By Kamna Nanda

Hunger died another death when they picked up rotten mangoes from beneath the poly bags in the dumpster.

As the cars passed by these roads, a few lives were found insignificant enough to be crushed for purpose of parking.

We present to you today’s news

Of how you’ve smothered any bit of compassion towards, let’s say, humans;

As you talk about your own happiness over tea.

That politician managed to slip in some figures in his accounts while making a transaction for justifying his concerns for the poor farmer,

And we kept pretending not been able to do anything.

We found an opportunity to blame and defame Islam for actions of a brutal rapist;

Who, by the way,

Forgot to read Quran for his entire life;

But remembered to burn her body down to ashes,

As it solved its purpose of satisfying his lust.

We present to you today’s news

Of how you let your apathy and prejudices kill the human in you,

As you sit and talk about your own happiness over tea.

That member of parliament relaxes on his cushion-soft sofa after a tiring day of passing bills,

While watching on TV people being beaten, fire spreading like rumors, air of rage thick like steel,

Enough for lives lost over what they talked about in a matchbox-sized building.

As we fight against each other for holding an opinion,

He watches the display of the effect of his power;

A power to disturb nation’s peace.

We present to you today’s news of your consumption with “self-love” and “I deserve the best”

As your fellow being suffers on roads through day;

And you,

Sit and talk

About your own happiness over tea.

By Kamna Nanda