Bakbak Tanushri

Bakbak Tanushri


This Independence Day...Set It Free...

August 14, 2019

I am me and you are you....

I am an Indian, and who are you?...



You are the rich and i am the poor....

You have some great karma for sure....
Oh boy, it's the luck that i seriously lack....

While you have money stacked up in black.....



Set it free...





You are a man and I am a woman......
Your birth is celebrated while I become the bad omen......

You are safe and free to roam......
But before the night strikes, i have to reach home......



Set it free.....



You try to divide and rule, and I am being made the fool...

You are playing and i am being played.....

You target the cast, creed, region and even the religion that i devote .....

You try everything to cash on my vote ......



Set it free.....



You break the law and i abide......

You love taking law for a ride.....
Sometimes, even crushing a few sleeping by the roadside.......

I shout cruelty......

And you say innocent until proven guilty......

What a stupidity.....



Set it free.......



You are the classy and i am the chaprasi....

You are the star with all the glitter....

Flashing the headlights, and roads to litter......

I clean up your trash and bear your rage and you tell me, “keep the change”.....



Set it free...



You are straight and i am not.....

Equality is an idea you never bought.....

But i know how to make things even.....

Remember section 377?.....



I have set it free.....





And it’s time to set free once more.......

Things that you deeply adore.......

Autocracy, mediocracy, idiocracy and hypocrisy....

Just some of your fantasies.......





And i too have one .....

To own a place like no one......



A place where I can be me and you can be you......

Where you don’t judge me and I don't judge you......



A place to stay keeping the prejudices at bay......

A place like the morning sun ray.....



A place like having a beautiful idea.....

A place i call my India....



Set it free......