{"id":137,"date":"2023-12-29T05:12:26","date_gmt":"2023-12-29T05:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aditi.world\/?page_id=137"},"modified":"2023-12-29T08:25:45","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T08:25:45","slug":"vaang-gari","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aditi.world\/?page_id=137","title":{"rendered":"Vaang Gari"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:12px;font-style:italic;font-weight:100\"><em>a poem by Anjum Alam<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>born in the year six with nothing preceding<br>they look at me crazy while asking<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Who was first?<br><\/em>to this white man\u2019s land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>fury reigns supreme with<br>its tender boiling. so now I<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>blow under the skin-soil of our mother<br>where waves tether to a miracle moon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>tilted half-mast they plant their flag on<br>our nanar bari. so now I<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>take a stone to the window of a Nissan<br>my blood red, the brick bloody.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>an owl leans into the twilight<br>and spins upon its center. I<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>circumvent until the mustard fields<br>burn my steps to the earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>skin singed ash ascends<br>I walk the dead. I<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>pray on a whispered edifice<br><em>Are you here?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am, and I cannot help<br>but bask in the fading light of a world sent ablaze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:57px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300\"><strong>TRANSLATIONS:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300\">\u201c<em>vaang gari<\/em>\u201d is Bangla for \u201c<em>break a car.<\/em>\u201d It refers to the Bengali people&#8217;s public outrage or protests in which people would randomly destroy public and private property in a fit of rage.<br>\u201c<em>nanar bari<\/em>\u201d is Bangla for \u201cmaternal grandfather\u2019s house,\u201d or \u201chomeland.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a poem by Anjum Alam born in the year six with nothing precedingthey look at me crazy while asking Who was first?to this white man\u2019s land. fury reigns supreme withits<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aditi.world\/?page_id=137\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["entry","author-anjum","post-137","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aditi.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aditi.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aditi.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aditi.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aditi.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/aditi.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231,"href":"https:\/\/aditi.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/137\/revisions\/231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aditi.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}