वो जो छींक
आधे में रुक जाती है न?
जिसके आ जाने तक
सांस रोकने के अलावा कुछ नहीं कर सकते?
पूरे अधिकार से
रोक देती है
जो भी ज़रूरी काज या बात
कर रहे हों।
सर्वाधिकार संपूर्णतया सुरक्षित।
कुछ कविताओं का मन में आना भी
ऐसा ही है।
You know that sneeze
that stops midway
just to demand
complete attention?
Where you have to stop doing
or saying
Whatever it is that you were
saying or doing?
Yeah, some poems
come to the head
in the same way.
Yesterday was elections where we live.
I noticed that on the Electronic Voting Machind, the candidates from the 2 main parties - BJP and Congress were placed next to each other.
Anyway, I registered my vote but to my surprise, the button next to it lit up.
I thought, at the time, that i had pressed the wrong button.
But since the other button belonged to a party that is responsible for the massacre of my family members, I just could not let it go.
All day and all evening, I kept thinking of how I could have pressed the wrong button.
And at night, I focused the brain to go back to the moment the button was pressed. The symbol of the candidate is to the left. Which symbol was it when I was pressing the button??
It was the right symbol. I did press the intended button, but the machine registered my vote differently.
I understand this is a serious accusation, and there is no way of proving it bcs there is no CCTV camera inside the booth, but I know what happened here.
Incidentally, only one party created a ruckus saying that the EVMs can be tampered. It was the party that 'erroneously' got my vote yesterday.
Even if no one knows, I know.
