Why not now

Today I attended the Independence Day celebrations at the High Commission of India in Canberra and asked the High Commissioner Mr Gopal Bagle whether he could bring Independence in for us Australian-Indians as well.  No reply as yet…

How do I explain what it means to be alone to my sons, they don't know that I need a life too. Find a dream, they say, as if reading out loud from a book! How do you find a dream when all of yours have been broken, And so she smiles and then asks me whether I am a friend? How can I be a friend when all she has done is tried to take all of my dreams away? It cannot happen because they are my dreams and I will live with them till the end of time, It does not happen coz God is on my side. In this country they ask, Which God,  God is one we all learnt that when we were in school, Maybe they will recognise that here too one day. It will really help as there are people here from all cultures and  backgrounds and different religions. A secular Republic will be nice to have; One in which dreams can be formed and made and turned into something real, Where I will know that it is fine to dream and to not live with broken dreams that get turned to nought one day, Where my sons w...

I am an artist who has been made alone in Canberra, Australia, my artworks thrown away and my website delimited just because I am worried about the wellbeing of my three children who were taken away from me by my ex-husband and his family here (all Indian). I am so stressed out now that I can't even read another's blog without worrying about my own worries:) Can you help by finding me? My website is www.payalsehgal.com and my email address is payalsehgal007@gmail.com. My number is +61 414 991 197.

They say that the only thing I can do now is write a poem, And so I write here… I know not what, Just a short poem; Something that will bring the memories of the future alive, Something that will make me happy once again... But they could hurt, Why would they want me to be happy, I think... So, o gods, the preserver's people, please come and help us over here, my three children and I, We are really in need of support from those who believe in Human Rights; O you lovely men and women who I have only just read about, Where art thou? My heart really longs to meet you in a pleasance, I don't have one right now but may soon, And, they will come back to me and be free of another's will.

I used to be a social researcher as well as a philanthropist who has been turned into a refugee of sorts by some business men and their partners who have forced me to become a dependent of the State.   They have taken my identity away from me by taking my art practice away from me, which is about the links between Mental Illness and Domestic Violence.  In 2019, I approached the Vice Chancellor of the ANU, a Physicist, with my project. However, instead of the yes that I was hoping for, I received a letter in my inbox from the legal department of the ANU saying that were I to contact anyone about my project they would start a legal case against me. I got scared and went silent. I wish instead that I had been braver and told others about my project but COVID also struck after a while and I got busy with my children who had also been taken away from me by my ex-husband and his family, something that they can't do in India anymore but they did use their contacts here to make me tot...

I don't know how to know, so they tell me, However, I can know when they know coz they are my children; I can also know when he knows coz he is my ex-husband; I can also know when they know coz they were my inlaws for almost 20 years; Can you help me please then, As my three are really tired and say, please, when will we be together to me all the time, This they do by meeting me as often as they can and talking to me when they can, The MHC does know too and asks me to go to DVCS and Relationships Australia with them, Which I can't as their father won't let them. Can you help me please, I will be grateful, The NGA knows of me but won't know there for me as Mental Illness is Sacrosanct; The ANU knows too but it is the same over there too as there are finances involved; What should I do now and so I ask you,  As I hope that you will be able to open the case which was closed in 2017, By the Member for Canberra as we sit alone over here and hope once more that that which ...

I am a mother of three,  And, I live in Canberra but I am not free; I have lost four teeth asking for my Rights and lost my seventh tooth a year or two ago; I have Dementia now like a number of Musicians have in this city,  So I ask you whether you can please bring my sons back to me, I will be grateful;  And I will explain to you why in a little while; I ask you for help as all of my children and I are Autistic and low on Fe and Vit D but High Achievers; And, also as I don't know why but no one in the ACT replies to my emails now; Even Leanne, who argued for my Rights and questioned Michael, the Minister for Multicultural Affairs last year -  why my three sons were not with me, Even she has stopped writing to me; Can you please find out why this is happening coz Andrew is my ex-husband's friend's friend and he has suggested that he can't for me probably as there is not enough money with me over here in Australia as mine is all over there; I ...