A muffled cry for freedom

Barbedwire fences disappear,
a hammer and sickle now adorns the hands of democracy.
Guns lower themselves,
a reverse gun salute to resumed Border Trade.
Two giants embrace;
enmity shoved under the snowy rug.
Hidden from flashing cameras and flourishing pens,
trampled underneath a ‘historic’ event,
ignored by champions of freedom,
a lost nation cries.

Forty-four years after the Sino-India war of 1962, border trade was resumed between these two countries through Nathula in Sikkim on Thursday, 06 July. This was the culmination of years of diplomatic dialogue between these two countries.

It’s amazing how no one thought it necessary to include the Tibetans in the dialogue since the trade activities will be taking place in their homeland – now known as the Tibet Autonomous Region, not mainland China! What a crying shame!