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Silver Jubilee of Bhopal Gas Victims 
 
never know 
when sky gets heavy 
with lethal clouds 
breathing uneasy 
pregnant moms 
never realized 
new-born babes 
will be a sore in the eyes 
of generations to come 
 
there was no war 
man’s power squabble 
no fight of the kites 
in blue heaven 
the tranquil of water 
was not disturbed 
nor on the land 
anything was broken 
 
still they died 
sixteen thousand of them 
died of exhaustion 
for casual lapse of work ethics 
in their sleep quietly 
dreams were forbidden for them 
twenty five years past 
we still fight for reasons 
 
 
rajkumar@kolkata 
09-06-2010 
@rajkumar mukherjee