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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=561027" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Let bad banished be by better</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Books banned scarce banished stay, nor burnt to naught, <br>Thoughts nor ideas stay captured to a jail, <br>Nor art if censored stay for long unsought, <br>As all inquests condemned are to derail; <br>Societies if they be left free to fail, <br>At times tense in dissent and friction-prone, <br>Like a turbulent ocean caught on gale, <br>Be proof: freedom breathes big on its own.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No art obscene is, book, nor painting drawn, <br>For all obscenity, as beauty, lies<br>In beholder's eyes that see what's ere sown, <br>As most minds scarce from their base level rise.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hard by far a better bailiff to see<br>To bad idea than one that better be.<br>__________________________________________ _______________ <br>Much of the intolerance seen in the Indian society today, it seems, <br>is stage-managed and promoted by party politics with a view to <br>win votes. Take the recent ban on Salman Rushdie on attending a<br>Lit Fest in Jaipur. Take the court cases on the well-known painter <br>M F Hussain, who had to stay away from his country of birth till <br>he died in London a few months back; take Taslima Nasreen of <br>Bangladesh being driven out of West Bengal; take banning of <br>books, paintings, and movies, even historical essays. But have <br>they remained banned? What is banned seldom becomes banal. <br>It becomes for sure better known, if not a best seller. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The way out is indicated in the couplet concluding this Sonnet.<br>______________________________________ ___________________________ <br>     - Sonnets | 08.01.12 |</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Aniruddha+Pathak">Aniruddha Pathak</a><div class=q>
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