"Neither we possess licenses for weapons
Nor have the strength to go and fight the enemies of the Turks
But we do curse them from the core of our hearts
That God may spike the Italian guns
- Indian poet Akbar Illahabadi on Italian atrocities in Libya in 1911 - in a war that saw the first bomb dropped from an aeroplane.
Nor have the strength to go and fight the enemies of the Turks
But we do curse them from the core of our hearts
That God may spike the Italian guns
- Indian poet Akbar Illahabadi on Italian atrocities in Libya in 1911 - in a war that saw the first bomb dropped from an aeroplane.