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Legacy of Savitribai

January 20th, 2015 by admin

 

Yogesh Maitreya

If mother had heard about you,             savitribai_photo

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.

~~~

Yogesh Maitreya is a poet, writer and publisher.

~

Image courtesy: from the book A Forgotten Liberator: The Life and Struggle of Savitribai Phule

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