{"id":249519,"date":"2024-09-22T12:25:49","date_gmt":"2024-09-22T06:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=249519"},"modified":"2024-09-29T19:27:42","modified_gmt":"2024-09-29T13:57:42","slug":"many-faces-of-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2024\/09\/22\/many-faces-of-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Many Faces of Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8212; Kalyan Kumar Dutta <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>VKV Kharsang<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Money takes its different form<br \/>\nIn every place a new norm.<br \/>\nIn marriage it&#8217;s a dowry&#8217;s claim<br \/>\nA shadowed exchange, a hidden shame.<\/p>\n<p>In divorce it becomes alimony<br \/>\nParting ways, a costly irony.<br \/>\nIn temples it&#8217;s given as donation<br \/>\nAn offering of hope, a pure intention.<\/p>\n<p>In school it&#8217;s paid as the student&#8217;s fee<br \/>\nThe price for learning the future&#8217;s key.<br \/>\nIn courts, it&#8217;s a burden known as fine<br \/>\nFor wrongs committed, a costly line.<\/p>\n<p>To the government it turns to tax<br \/>\nA share of wealth to fix the cracks.<br \/>\nTo workers it&#8217;s earned as salary<br \/>\nThe fruit of toil, a dignified victory.<\/p>\n<p>In shadows dark it&#8217;s called ransom<br \/>\nA force of fear, freedom seldom.<br \/>\nFrom hands to hands it changes face<br \/>\nIn every form it leaves its trace.<\/p>\n<p>But money&#8217;s worth can we define?<br \/>\nA fleeting measure, a tangled line.<br \/>\nIt builds, it breaks, it heals, it blinds<br \/>\nYet in the heart true wealth one finds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; Kalyan Kumar Dutta VKV Kharsang Money takes its different form In every place a new norm. In marriage it&#8217;s a dowry&#8217;s claim A shadowed exchange, a hidden shame. In divorce it becomes alimony Parting ways, a costly irony. In temples it&#8217;s given as donation An offering of hope, a pure intention. In school it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-249519","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-spark"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}