Imaginary Homelands: Essays And Criticism

Imaginary homelands People by imaginary people, Dream children Debating state, nationhood, constitution, Charter, bill, resolution, The roots of friction, fissure, fission and fusion, Religion, faith, fanaticism, Coloniality, post-coloniality, Constructing, deconstructing it all. Ego, hypocrisy, prejudice, bias, Indigenous cultures and their social affiliations, Sectarian beliefs and motifs, Archetypal myth and mysticism, Cutting the cultural ice of the self And the psyche denoting the community, Patriarchy and its bindings upon, So hegemonic and upper-handy Downing the feminine spirit. His mood and mentality of criticism, Examining of the self with know thyself, Judging freedom of speech and expression, How free the press, The zeitgeist of the age, The spirit and the times of it, Conflicting and inflicting upon, Crucial times of crisis With time-bud upheavals. The ragged fought and liberated, But frenzy and fanaticism divided it, The dream children of freedom Struggled to cope with the idea Of imaginary homelands, Migrating, populating And deserting to be away from Their own places of loyalties, Allegiances and affinities. The Partition drama, What did they get it from Uprooting the innocent people from their lands, The roots of nativity and family lineage, What, what did they from politics So narrow and ismic, Was it the plan of a nationalist Or a patriot or a freedom eh fought The movement with some dream and aspiration Or was it the handiwork of a fanatic?