Amitabh Vikram Dwivedi is assistant professor of linguistics at Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, India. His research interests include language documentation, writing descriptive grammars, and the preservation of rare and endangered languages in South Asia. He has contributed articles to many Science Citation Index journals. His most recent books are A Grammar of Hadoti (Lincom: Munich, 2012), A Grammar of Bhadarwahi (Lincom: Munich, 2013), and a poetry collection titled Chinaar kaa Sukhaa Pattaa (2015) in Hindi. As a poet, he has published more than 100 poems in different anthologies, journals and magazines worldwide. Until recently, his poem “Mother” has been published as a prologue to Motherhood and War: International Perspectives (Eds.), Palgrave Macmillan Press. 2014.
Our cries should be heard. Our voices should be heard loud and clear biko… This poetry carries a silent message, many people tend to overlook us and pretend not to hear what we’re saying and that’s where human rights come to play… we are humans, we should not be overlooked or ignored,we should be able to relate our problems and get solutions.
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there is silence and emptiness like that of a graveyard
Our cries should be heard. Our voices should be heard loud and clear biko… This poetry carries a silent message, many people tend to overlook us and pretend not to hear what we’re saying and that’s where human rights come to play… we are humans, we should not be overlooked or ignored,we should be able to relate our problems and get solutions.