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When the Regime commanded that books with harmful knowledge Should be publicly burned on all sides Oxen were forced to drag cart loads of books To the bonfires, a banished Writer, one of the best, scanning the list of the Burned, was shocked to find that his Books had been passed over. He rushed to his desk On wings of wrath, and wrote a letter to those in power. Burn me! he wrote with flying pen, burn me. Haven’t my books Always reported the truth? And here you are Treating me like a liar! I command you: Burn me! ~~ Poem by Bertolt Brecht, brought to my notice by Salil Tripathi. Put here in honour of the great Hindutva philosopher historian Subramaniam Swamy who wants books by Nehruvian historians (whatever that means) to be burnt!
Posted on: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 08:28:05 +0000

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