Power is the justification of power, the daily slights
adding up to a gaping wound staring you in the face,
a grand pus-filled showcase of historical inequity
ordained by god, for the glory of man, his middling meddling
middleman.
Justice is the undoing of power. It is the stream correcting its
flow, talking to the wind, gushing past the mountain, seeping
the lowly fields. It is the wrath of the wind, touching the stream,
laughing with the mountain, weeping when it reaches the seed.
Prelude to Jon Elia’s “Do AwaazaiN” (Shayad, pg. 243)
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Gathering just-a-bit-o moss 
I am not so convinced by the argument of the dosri awaz. All in all very powerful argument for its time
Calling the doosri awaz anachronistic – esp. as it has been voiced in our context by Faiz and Elia – amounts to quelling the conscience in a way I feel.