Left to Write

The ‘Right’ of ‘Right’ is ‘The Right’ of Every Citizen, but with deficient governance, The Right is deemed suspended…and this when stood for, is adjudged ‘Not Right’. Yet it cannot choke that which is ‘Left’, which is always there, only at times ignored and left by us,‘The Right’ to ‘Write’. That is what makes pen mightier than the sword.

The Right to Write enables us to express our Right to Live, and not leave matters that need to be expressed and exposed, suppressed. As they are suppressed we are oppressed and as we Write we Writ against all that is oppressive. As we Write we express all that is already Writ indelibly on the psyche of people, yet unexpressed as it would be inedible for those who wish to impose and propagate ignorance and create a culture of suppression and dependence.

There are no rights or wrongs inherently but expression seeks freedom inherently. It is A Right, Written largely in our psyche from the moment of our inception.

And it is always Left to Write when people are forced to move from Right to Left in pursuit of their Right to exercise their Rights.

Sushmita Mukherjee,

May 28, 2012