#OutlookMagazine | Recipe for peace
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00:00 I am Pragya and I bring to you excerpts from the ear-opener issue of Outlook titled Poetry as Evidence.
00:07 Poetry must be brought before general public. Poetry offers that scope that we get affected and we feel.
00:14 Poetry expands the scope of storytelling. It is evidence of others' lives, of our times.
00:21 We remain grateful to Amar Kanwar who worked with us and edited this issue,
00:25 and to everyone who gave us their poems and images, to the reporters who gathered the poems,
00:31 to the designers and researchers who made it all possible.
00:35 Recipe for Peace from Ki Keditsu from Nagaland.
00:39 Ingredients, life, free range, whole tears to taste.
00:45 If life is not available, substitute with a lump of coal, two minutes silence, five lakhs in cash.
00:53 Method, in an iron asphalt pot, issue statements of condemnation.
00:59 Declare a high-level investigation will be undertaken.
01:03 Liberally season with tears.
01:06 Open fire to prevent grief or outrage from escaping.
01:11 Drive around in uniform and armed to infuse flavor of fear.
01:16 Simmer slowly, stirring gently, until memory is reduced to the consistency of forgetting.
01:24 Best served cold in a bed of crisp cash.
01:27 For this and more, read the year-opener issue of Outlook.