PARTITION, 1947 by Sangita Neogi

They walked,
In the silent change of the world’s white lustre.
Under the synchronization of the dim stars.
In the deepening of the dawn.
In the dusk.
Through lands of odourless blossoms and songless birds.
Through woodlands and muddy skirts.
Through sad wildernesses and sere deserts.

They were going.
But in which country?
How many miles away
Their destination must be.

The undimmed memories heaved around the bloody scars,
Some of them had lost their names,
In the monstrous wailing of the shells.
Yet, they ran with their anonymous identity,
With restless emotions and countless apathy.

But where did they go?
Nobody knows
But the trees that soaked their perspiration.
The sleeping hays of the hut where they halted.
The dry leaves which held their fingerprints.
The morning dew which once enthralled them.
And the halfmoon that impregnated the night
With the holy glimmers of the half-dead fireflies.

But where did they go?
Where did the lost names veer?
Did the nameless piece of earth compute
The bodies stuck on the barbed wires?


About the Author:

I am Sangita Neogi, a twenty-two-year-old student pursuing post-graduation in English Language and Literature from Presidency University, Kolkata. I hail from Chandannagar, a suburban area of Kolkata, West Bengal (India). I received Bachelor of Arts degree from University of Calcutta. On my 12th Board exam, I ranked 19th from my state West Bengal. Currently am critiquing films specifically of the legendary queer icon of Bengal Rituparno Ghose. My research area of interest includes Holocaust and literature, Partition Literature, Casteism, Queer and Gender Studies, Visual and Performing arts and Psychoanalytic criticism to name a few. Besides being an academic researcher, I am also a singer and a professional musician with the ability of playing seven musical instruments like Ukulele, Guitar, Melodica, Flute etc. I spend my leisure time in cooking, composing poetry, reading story books, playing instruments and watching films.

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