Dear Uncle Sam,

I am writing this letter of consolation realising that you might need one as the conspiracy theory of ‘Modern Art being sponsored by CIA’ has finally proven right. Though looking at your obstinate behaviour over the proven political follies of imposed wars around the world, I am convinced that you hardly need support from a poor girl. I am saying that “I am poor because my country is poor” as Manto Sb has already told you, else I am blessed with enough self-respect to weigh my worth in terms of faith, piety, enlightenment and confidence in carrying forward a rich cultural legacy of the Global South. I do admit that there too are other motifs behind this letter. Maybe, I want to make sense of my times and surroundings. Or perhaps, I need to reassure myself of certain things as I believe that the conspiracist ideations are psychologically harmful for a young female thinker like me. Hence, to avoid the risk of lower analytical thinking and intelligence, paranoia, narcissism and insecure attachments I shall........

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