#OutlookMagazine | Independence day
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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 Independence Day by Begum Asma Khatun from Assam, translated from Assamese by Shalim M. Hussain.
00:43 Apparently tomorrow is Independence Day. In my village, I see independence every day.
00:49 Songs of independence play daily in Phoolbanu's mother's empty rice pot.
00:55 When Phoolbanu's mother enters the kitchen, her children flock around and say,
01:00 "Mother, we are hungry." Independence rolls down Phoolbanu's mother's eyes.
01:06 She looks at her children's faces and takes out her old begging bag.
01:11 Inside the bag are songs of independence.
01:15 For this and more, read the year-opener issue of Outlook.