Iron Nails Vs Flowers: Farmers Plant Roses Near Spikes Installed By Cops At Border Sites
On Friday, Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait said, The police had fixed iron nails for farmers but we have decided to plant flowers for them. Twitter Outlook Web Bureau 2021-02-08T08:03:07+05:30 Iron Nails Vs Flowers: Farmers Plant Roses Near Spikes Installed By Cops At Border Sites outlookindia.com 2021-02-08T08:04:00+05:30
In a great show of symbolism and contrasts, the farmers at Ghazipur, Tikri and Singhu protest sites planted flower saplings along a road stretch, saying it was their response to ‘iron nails’ fixed in the area by the Delhi police to stop them.
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Neelam Mansingh Chowdhry
When will anyone want to be in a dark room full of strangers again, I ask myself over and over again. Theatres are shut, time seems frozen and tomorrow is a distant dream. I recall the story of Dalai Lama being asked if he would like to be born again despite the fact that the world will not get better. He answered: “If I could be useful, then I would like to be born again.”
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In violent times, the notion of usefulness is radical. Can art be useful? Art sometimes, I feel, is an extravagant and exquisite waste of time and a world complete by itself. Yet, the irony is that art is useful in a deep and enduring way. Poet Joseph Brondsky describes art as the oxygen that might arrive when the last breath has been expended.