Khadi Gramodyoga
And getting it sold
From the Khadi Bhawan
Hand-loom made clothes
From the Charkha
Purely Indian and rural.
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Don’t,
BreakMy heart,MyHeartAs I am,IAmSo weak,So weak,My love,MyLove,Don’t,Don’tBreak,BreakMy heart,Heart,My love,Love,It is you,It is youWhomI love,I love youSo,So, so much,So much,My love,Love!
Indian democracy is a govt. of the fools, by the fools, for the fools.
A govt. of the people, by the people, for the people.The ballot boxes are rigged and changed,Proxy votes are cast forAnd Murkhamantri comes out victorious.
Satchidanandan as a poet
Its history and movements,Reeling under the loomOf political ideologues and think-tanks,The pressures of the communist regimes,Where lies it bannedThe freedom of the press,The tongue under restraint,Freedom of speech and expression censured,Living under threat and pressure,The proletariat the masterBut how to do away with all thatColour in all,Red colour in allHistory, language, culture, song, choreography,Script, text…
I see the petty poets,
The journal editorsIndulging in mutual admiration and self-praise,One calling another Virgil or HoraceOr Homer,But where Aeneid, where Odes,Where Iliad and Odyssey?The small-small versifiers and rhymers editing journalsCalling themselves great poets and poetesses,Even some have managed to bring out collectionsAs for to be poets or critics somehow,But the common public know not these duplicate fellows,How false…
I is not important,
Green earthFull of greeneryAnd vegetation,Rocks, rivers, mountains and hills,Valleys and marshes,What it is important is ecology,Environment, human co-existenceWith birds, beats and flowers,Exotic flora and fauna.
Both of them crossing each other
Horn for a few seconds,Crossing,Crossing over and passing,One in one directionAnother in the otherOn the highlandat day endWith the wagons,Wagons so manyLike the boxes,Matchboxes taggedAnd joinedGoing,Going, but where?Where to shunt and wait for,Where to station,Where the halt,Where the stationAs similar the goods train of life,No rest is in,When will the journey end,To keep goingAnd going?