Heaven today is subjugated by merciless tyrants.
God’s children are getting whipped, heroic youth-hanged.
India today is a butchery-when will you arrive, O Destroyer?
God’s soldiers are serving terms of hard labor exiled to desolate islands.
Who will come to the battlefield
unless you come with your sword in your hand?
[Translation: Sajed Kamal]
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