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Ten Mutually-Contradictory Counterfactuals
Poem
Akhil Katyal
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11 Aug, 2022
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(Illustration: Saurabh Singh)
1. In 1959, the country’s capital moves to Bangalore.
2. Mountbatten dies of dysentery in his second week in Delhi.
3. Ambedkar lives for another thirty years.
4. Thomas Roe gets nothing from Jahangir.
5. Zia’s plane crashes in ’77 instead of ’88.
6. The RSS ban is never lifted.
7. Manto stays put in Bombay.
8. They stop Indira from declaring the Emergency.
9. Godse misses all his three shots.
10. The crowd gathering around Babri is dispersed.
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