One Year After 26/11

सुबह उगे नफरत की धुंध से, घुटन से, अंधियारे की चुभथी चादर से...

They came in through the sea with impunity
To mutiny against hope and against peace and joy
It wasn't a bunch of people, held hostage on the sly
It was mumbai, it was the whole city that cried
The skies of the night were filled with angry flame
And the billowing smoke and darkness of human pain
They rained hatred...spewed it in a shower of bullets
Our blood was innocent..and still they wanted to spill it
You've got to will it and it happens..that's what they say
So who willed it? Why us? Why don't we have a say?


ज़ख्म भरी यादें, डरा हुआ जहाँ, घने हैं साए मौत के यहाँ

A whole day that burnt into the night that burst into a day
That screamed into the night. They fight-
-Against hate that burnt like a blister, stung like a curse,
That scars like a wound that's left to fester
Each moment a forever of agonising pain
That wept into days that drove us insane
What gain what motive, what cruel intent
Can drive them to action beyond repent


सिसकती हैं हज़ार आँखें खौफ में खोई, पर भूल गए हैं बाक़ी सारे

It's all over now, (they said), the water's under the bridge, (they said)
No reason to be angry or hold a grudge, (they said)
Let the government take over, you don't get to judge, they said
Well, yeah! it's over for the hundreds who died
And for their brothers, sisters, mums and dads
And the baby that cried
When you love someone with your heart and your soul
And he's gone, a piece of you's empty, and you're no more whole
It's not over and it is not the end,
There's tears and scars and memories you just can't mend
What happened was wrong, don't need you to read me the rules
Look to your heart, your conscience, don't need no other tools
We're healing, but we're waiting for some kind of sign
That we're really safe...but we're still not fine
We're healing....