Yogesh Maitreya
If mother had heard about you, 
she would have penned
about her life what she knew.
But since her life
was devoid of pen and paper,
she decided
to work, make bread and labour
so that I could hold
the pen and the paper
and write what has been erased.
My mother did the same for my sisters
and when I look at them now
it only makes me revisit you
and I think:
how a woman, my mother, never knowing your name
could bequeath Savitribai
to her daughters.
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Yogesh Maitreya is a poet, writer and publisher.
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Image courtesy: from the book A Forgotten Liberator: The Life and Struggle of Savitribai Phule
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