by Gerard Sarnat
जैक द रिपर मानो या न मानो!/Jack the Ripper Believe It Or Not! in Hindi (Trigger Warning)
-riffing off Nisha Pahuja’s 2022 documentary, To Kill A Tiger
Can you believe it?
Though India gets
The lion’s share
Of attention –-
With one rape
Victim every
20 seconds--
A score or so
Other nations
Have similar
Stigmatizing
Misogynistic
“Community”
Laws such as
Totally insane
Business as usual
Marry-Your-Rapist
To punish women victims
But protect sexual predators.
Ger’s Flashback
We entered
Vigilante
As billed
Country
Easily
Had fun times
Indulging in
Their drugs
Surveilled
As part of
Faustian dealio
But then bad
Pockmarked
Men beat us
As they rape
Our old women
Didn’t lock up
—Played with
Gringos like
Cat ‘n bird.