Misanthrope and Bulley Shah-- poem for a new year

http://mise-en-trope.blogspot.com/2009/01/poem-for...

Chal Bulleya, othey chaliye
jithae sarae annae
na koi saadee jaat pachhaney
thae na koi saanu manney
Let's go, Bulleya, let's go to a place
where everyone is blind,
where nobody knows our lineage
and nobody judges us by it.

As the blogger Misanthrope attests, the Mumbai terrorist attacks were made long after the video used them as settings. But they are iconic places, places that resonate deeply with the populace.  Sufism holds the key to sanity and tolerance in the midst of extremism and fundamentalist lashing out.

Misanthrope posted the essay about this poem exactly one year ago. 

Now in Arizona USA, a crazy 'lone gunman' has opened fire on a political gathering and critically wounded a politician and a killed a child. At his indictment he smiled at all the attention. The Internets are abuzz with blamers trying to assert that he was a tool of their opponents. Chal, Bulleya...