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To Sabeen Mahmud – Prof Badri Raina

Sabeen Mahmud was leaving her Karachi restaurant, where she also holds exhibitions and talks, when the gunman attacked her in her car. (Pic courtesy Twitter)

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

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