as the River flows – a bi-lingual feature film in Hindi and Assamese
I know
long ago
the river used to speak.
But when he realised
every drop of pain
flows above horizon of words
he surrendered to silence.
People came to his bosom
creating to destroy
and named it civilization.
People came to his bosom
looking for the meaning in destruction
and called it history.
More the time flows
more the time remains still.
More the things change
more the things remain the same.
The drops of pain
mounting on the bank –
will it overflow…
as the River flows?
In the India’s state of Assam, during the last 3 decades, over 30,000 lives have been lost to insurgency and an unknown number of people remain untraceable till date…
