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“They call us now, before they drop the bombs. The phone rings and someone who knows my first name calls and says in perfect Arabic “This is David.” And in my stupor of sonic booms and glass-shattering symphonies still smashing around in my head I think, Do I know any Davids in Gaza? They call us now to say Run. You have 58 seconds from the end of this message. Your house is next. They think of it as some kind of war-time courtesy. It doesn’t matter that there is nowhere to run to. It means nothing that the borders are closed and your papers are worthless and mark you only for a life sentence in this prison by the sea and the alleyways are narrow and there are more human lives packed one against the other more than any other place on earth Just run. We aren’t trying to kill you. It doesn’t matter that you can’t call us back to tell us the people we claim to want aren’t in your house that there’s no one here except you and your children who were cheering for Argentina sharing the last loaf of bread for this week counting candles left in case the power goes out. It doesn’t matter that you have children. You live in the wrong place and now is your chance to run to nowhere. It doesn’t matter that 58 seconds isn’t long enough to find your wedding album or your son’s favorite blanket or your daughter’s almost completed college application or your shoes or to gather everyone in the house. It doesn’t matter what you had planned. It doesn’t matter who you are. Prove you’re human. Prove you stand on two legs. Run.”

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Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Running Orders                                            

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/143255/running-orders

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Indian 60’s girl bands

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‘Losers Weepers’: Lata Chandy, Kumari Koshy (on the drums) Shubha Sathyendranath, Sheila Chandrasekharan and Sheila Mammen

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STRIKE UP THE BAND Top The all-girl band,’ Missing Links’, with Shalet and Rita Paul, Sunila and Anila Mathew

The show must go on but it did not. Somewhere down the way the all-girl bands of Kochi wound up by the mid- seventies. Let the music play on… . But it did not.

Were the all-woman band groups in Kochi ahead of their times? And was being a woman not in tune? Whatever the reasons `those were the days my friend… We thought would never end,’ recalls Pamela Anna Mathew, MD, OEN, who was a guest singer with the all-girl band group, `Missing Links’. This was not only one of her favourite numbers that she sang but is also a sentiment she shares. “By the time the band had got going, in which my two sisters, Anila as rhythm guitarist and Sunila as the drummer were part of, I had joined the family business,” said Ms. Mathew, who went on to be the president of the Cochin Chamber of Commerce, of KMA and of CII, Kerala Council. Music had given way to work and the show had come to an end at least for her.

The first chord

But then it was `Losers Weepers’ (1969-'72) that struck the first chord in this trend. It was a time when women on stage were frowned upon. Recalls Lata Verghese nee Chandy, lead guitarist of the group, “It was unheard of for girls to rock in those days. People could not accept this so we thought we were losers and we would weep at our plight. That’s why we named our group Loosers and Weepers. If we knew we could get so far and play outside St. Teresa’s College and in other cities we would have given it a different name.”

Shalet John, lead guitarist and singer of `Missing Links’ says, “I don’t remember who coined this name but then we believed music to be the missing link in the evolution of man. We used to play the introductory piece called the `Link Connector’ just as the curtains would go up. Emile Isaacs of Elite Aces was the person who groomed us . We had music lessons with him but then all of us came from families, which were inherently musical. I remember that there was opposition from our relatives but my mother and Anila and Sunila’s mother would come with us for the shows. We had complete parental support.”

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