00:00 I am Pragya and I bring to you excerpts from the ear-opener issue of Outlook titled Poetry as Evidence.
00:07 Poetry must be brought before general public. Poetry offers that scope that we get affected and we feel.
00:14 Poetry expands the scope of storytelling. It is evidence of others' lives, of our times.
00:21 We remain grateful to Amar Kanwar who worked with us and edited this issue,
00:25 and to everyone who gave us their poems and images, to the reporters who gathered the poems,
00:31 to the designers and researchers who made it all possible.
00:35 Culprits by Sunil Gaikwad from Maharashtra, translated from Hindi by Pratyush Pushkar.
00:42 Governor, how loud should I speak? I am indigenous to this land, this land, this forest, these plants and trees.
00:50 On these floras, pona, mountains, rivers and little ponds, my heart resides.
00:56 There's a little right that I have over these.
00:59 A tribal young man with folded hands was requesting the government officer.
01:04 His wife in torn clothes lay prostrate in front of the police van.
01:09 His naked children were crying. Bastard! You are anti-national! Criminal!
01:15 The police, hitting them with batons, sent the Adivasis to the jail.
01:20 They had their eyes on the Adivasi women.
01:23 For this and more, read the year-opener issue of Outlook.
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