In a chawl of closed mills

The region of the chawl.
screams for a grain

The dim yellow light too
is also about to put out
in the rooms,
and what happened to
the bodies like steel?

The limbs are paralyzed,
the billows of lungs whistle,
the circulation slows down.

In the volcano of unemployment
burns the hunger
burns lives upto the roots.
On one side, silent screams
on the other side, silence everywhere.
That's why
the Sabarmati of civility and riches
has dried out
and the Manchester
has turned into a mortuary.






Sabarmati river which divides Ahmedabad into rich and poor Ahmedabad
Ahmedabad was known as Manchester of India because of booming textile industries before 1980s