Speaking in English,
Enacting the drama
In the department of English,
Shakuntala not in sari
But in shirt and bell bots
Speaking impeccable English
Copying them ditto.
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Including in Shelley’s The Cloud, The Indian Serenade,
Emerson’s Brahma,Whitman’s A Passage to India,Elion’s The Waste Land,Auden’s Partition,Yeats’ Meru, The Indian to His God, The Indian Upon God,Excluding the Indian poets and poetessesWriting in EnglishAnd calling themselvesIndo-Anglian, Anglican writers of verseOf Indian English poetry, Indian poetry in English.
They asked it,
Came the reply,Poetry is songs,Sing you.Songs fromThe heart,Songs fromThe soulAnd you singing it.
Malik Muhammad Jaysi,
You telling with a parrot and a Rajput princess!Your PadmavatWritten in a Sufiana andaz,Why to debate and discuss historical facts?A Pir, a Sufi saintYou saw India, HinduismAnd tried to mingle it with Islam!Jayasi, your PadmawatAn epic historicalWith the Rajput princess of Rajpuatana!The princess of Chittor,The Rajput queen PadmavatiExquisitely beautiful.Oh, ravishingly beautiful PadmavatiWhose glimpseAlauddin would have…
The Partition of India,
And for them,Why did they suffer the people,Just for the leaders and erratic decisionsWithout thinking about the midnight childrenMaking a tryst with destinyJust fro to sit on chairThey pushed India to an unknown future,Children, widows, men and womenTo be ill-fated hapless people,Doomed to die as poor destituteAnd to be killed, tortured and thrown out,Such a…
Indian that I knew it not,
Ladakh and other far flung areas.A small Ladakhi girl, ho to greet her,Greet herIn which language?The small girl, small girl my love,Love for India and its culture,India and its regions.