After observing all the threads die down by the various Maoist zealots here in sajha who want to ban all those who vehemently oppose the commie atrocities, most importantly "censorship", here's one by Rushdie which basically sums it all up. And for the hypocrites who live abroad, know that the annotations and questionings will NEVER stop!! Ain't no member putting a ban on anyone else here...No commie dictatorship for me on sajha.
6 March 1989: Salman Rushdie
Boy, yaar, they sure called me some good names of late:
e.g. opportunist (dangerous). E.g. full-of-hate,
self-aggrandizing, Satan, self-loathing and shrill,
the type it would clean up the planet to kill.
I justjust remember my own goodname still.
Damn, brother. You saw what they did to my face?
Poked out my eyes. Knocked teeth out of place,
stuck a dog's body under, hung same from a hook,
wrote what-all on my forehead! Wrote 'bastard'! Wrote 'crook'!
I justjust recall how my face used to look.
Now, misters and sisters, they've come for my voice.
If the Cat got my tongue, lok who-who would rejoice--
muftis, politicos, 'my own people', hacks.
Still, nameless-and-faceless or not, here's my choice:
not to shut up. To sing on, in spite of attacks,
to sing (while my dreams are being murdered by facts)
praises of butterflies broken on racks.
