Notes
1 I am not your data, nor am I your vote bank,
I am not your project, or any exotic museum object
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Nor I am the lab where your theories are tested,
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I am not your field, your crowd, your history,
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I refuse, reject, resist your labels,
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Because they deny me my existence, my vision, my space,
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So I draw my own picture, and invent my own grammar,
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For me, my people, my world, my Adivasi self!