I do not taint or corrode.
I assimilate and expand endlessly, like the very universe we
inhabit.
I have an identity that is plural, uniquely Indian and
universally recognizable
I am not defined by any one
element, no matter how big or small a part of me it forms. I cannot be defined
by time or age or singular histories handed down through unbroken lineages of
culture and tradition. If I have changed, if I have been blended in world
culture, then that change is me; that culture is me.
The insensitivity and illogic of
my past are not immune to the winds of new thought that blow from all the
corners of the earth. In the midst of these storms, my traditions and cultures
are not weakened or sullied. The voice that calls me freedom to choose, the
voice that says I should not be painted by just anybody and everybody who wields
brushes, the voice that shrugs to say anything is okay, any one set of these voices
do not define me. They all do; collectively.
In the wake of countless
opinions, I am not the right or wrong one. I am the freedom that enables all
those countless opinions. I am the collage of countless ideologies that clash
against each other, merge, wind and wrap around the waking spirit of my people.
I am light and every single colour
makes me India.
I am colour and I do not taint.