A captivating slam poetry performance by 27-year-old Naveen Chourey describes the emotions of all those involved in a mob lynching – the victims and the assaulters, the witnesses and the cops. It details the hatred and the apathy, and the institutional failures that have allowed mob lynchings to become commonplace in India.
A video of Chourey’s performance has now taken social media by storm.
Speaking to The Quint about his poem, Chourey says, “I want this poem to become irrelevant. We should be in a situation where people can say this is a thing of the past, but unfortunately, it is still a gruesome reality today. It pains me that my poem is still relevant.”