Living critique

a yatra

a journey

slow train ride of co-travelers:

ascending, descending, re-ascending

the train

sometimes leaving the ride altogether

on our unfolding journey

of life

critique permeates

bones

politics become

journeys interbraided

conclusion-free, unscriptable, everflowing

currents

critics must learn to be

currents,

without compromising the core of critique,

owned by all

who surrender to the cumulative force

An organization registered as NGO

can still live critique,

creatively refuse–

institutionalization

flow with currents

gain meanings from

tides

rising and falling

a community in struggle

takes power and creativity

of coming together

of giving and suffering together

battling loving losing

isolated souls becoming

resilient together

no egos nor proclamations

—feminist marxist nationalist liberal—

tags dissolve in storms

entangled we excavate, rebuild for ourselves

flourish in our soils find

fuller languages of politics

encompassing all life

energies of all who rise with us, around us

unstifled by singular identities.

an intimate enemy

brahmanical capitalist patriarchy

analyze it, personalize it, challenge it intimately

The Developmentalist State

uncover hungry breaths bellies howls dreams

tangled with its moves

manipulations

oppose by engaging

its discourses policies,

souls of those who do its dirty work

you and i are capable of the same greed, of

corruption violence we oppose

create spaces to feel-theorize-tell

(y)our complicities

sharpen movement Move

ever open to all

all that throbs and beats in me, in you.