Sabeen Mahmud
You lived and worked to elevate
Life, knowing your own
Was a guest. In that knowledge
Of instant disappearance,
Your presence was incantatory
And unmistakable.
Your stalwart conviction
Terrified those without the courage
To argue a point, but made
A new generation tough and able.
Sabeen, even as we mourn, we
Know such as you are never gone.
Prof Badri Raina, New Delhi
