An excerpt from a poem on the “middle class” of India Twitter is divided. Kommune India’s video went viral on Twitter, and many said they pertained to the speaker’s excerpt, with others criticizing it as being too cliche. Furthermore, people on Twitter claimed that the piece was romanticizing some problematic values. He said the speaker was alluding to a comfortable life, but somehow seemed “sacred” about it.
The poem mentions dealings with a man who goes from house to house collecting rags, how in middle class families, children are proud of their parents and parents are given children’s “high marks”. “Proud of. “In families like mine, these little things add to our hearts,” she says. She adds: “I come from a middle-class family where we never openly say how much we love our parents. I come from a middle class family where our parents never openly say how much they love us. Or how proud they are of us.”
One Twitter user commented, “It is ironic, there are so many people everywhere to tell the pathetic stories of the ‘middle class’, but hardly anyone to tell the stories of the real existence and distress of the ‘poor’ in the country.” Is.” Another said, “It’s called slam poetry because it makes you want to bang your phone in the ground. You all have to stop glamorizing anything by calling it ‘struggle’ and ‘middle class’.” Many also pointed to casteist undertones.
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— Avneesh Sharan (@avnishsharan) 22 October 2022
Racist through and through. “high marks” “u can also a laborer bcm” lol. Of course the upper castes are cashing in on it. It fits perfectly to their awakened aesthetic + conservative pining for an imagined glorious past. Sm1 Tell Him It’s 2022-Nothing Is Better Than Emotional Constipation https://t.co/zAactHEZXd
— punnika.theri (@OmManiPadmay) 23 October 2022
Romanticizing the broken family values that the middle class is supposed to have!! I https://t.co/6jHTNqcDQQ
— vibhuti (@vibgyor1802) 23 October 2022
It’s called a slam rhyme because it makes you want to slam your phone into the ground. You all need to stop glamorizing anything by calling it “struggle” and “middle class”. https://t.co/jmIUlby8bl
— anisha (@anishastwt) 23 October 2022
It is ironic that there are so many people everywhere to tell the pitiful stories of the “middle class”, but there are hardly any to tell the stories of the real existence and distress of the “poor” in the country. https://t.co/5ohAgVkgYx
— Vijaykumar IPS (@vijaypnpa_ips) 23 October 2022
However, there were those who found the piece resonant with their experiences.
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