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The imposition of the caste
The poem highlights the
system gives a specific section
rebellion against the cruel
of society a sense of superiority
incidents that happened during
even today. The farmers were
Neel Bidroha including the
forced to grow Indigo crops
burning of huts and the
which provided less returns, and
victimizing of women sexually
they had little to no say in what
that led to some committing
kind of crops they had to grow
suicide by drowning in the river.
despite suffocating working
conditions and poor returns the
Indigo harvesting provided.

The fields flame with it, endless,
And the wind
blue
screaming in the voices of
as cobra poison. It has entered our
women
blood
and pulses up our veins dragged to the plantation,
like night. There is no other color. feet, hair, torn breasts.
The planter’s whip … After that night
splits open the flesh of our faces, many of the women killed
a blue liquid light trickles themselves.
through the fingers. Blue dyes the Drowning was the easiest.()
lungs
when we breathe.
In the name of culture, a fiery
adherence to chastity in a
The farmers were trapped in a
woman even in the face of the
vicious cycle of debt and they
gravest adversity has always
had no choice but to shoulder
been advocated, fear of which
the burden of their ancestors
which made them take away
because of the rules that existed
their lives.
then, a sad reflection on the
state of affairs that this appears

to be the norm in the present as
well.

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