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Is this the India where the newly weds,
As for the dowry,Is this the IndiaWhere the wedding garlands go to the pyreTo burn with the dead bodies of the poor girl children,I mean the tearful women of India,The expecting brides married off recently?Is the India of brides burnt for money,For poverty, hunger and bad living conditions?
Kisi ke baap ka Hindustan thodi hai,
Rahat Indori Saheb,Mai apnei baap-dado ka diyaJamin ka naksha-parch aanwata hunAur panch-parmeshwar bulaa kahalwata hun.Aankh mitaka kar kucch kahana,Eshara karna aur chutki lenaAccha lagaa,Bahut accha lagaa, Indori Saheb,Shukriya!Hindustan is but not somebody’s father’s property,Yeah, it is my father’s,Rahat Indori Saheb,I am making them bring patriarchalNotes and drafts, wills and documents of land deedsAnd also calling…
The polar bear
Adapted to the colder climesIcy and snowyWalking on the snow, ice,Digging for,Playing onAnd fighting withIs their life,Their habitat and behaviour.
The myths of modernity
A world travelledAnd toured,The olden mythsOf Soviet Union,Kiev visitedAs a writerDuringAn exchange programme,Bhopal seen,Bombay ruminated.A poet of the commuter fatherAlways travelling,The old banyan tree cutFor the new mansion,The son’s hazy memory,The beaches of BombayAnd the cities and townsVisited and re-visited,He takes a note ofAll thatWith the passing comments of ownTo be transmuted as poesyRevealing, divulgingThe…
The beauty of the yakand and datura blooms
How to narrate them,The yakand blooms clusteredAnd wooden outwardly,But is not,Generally, the white but bluish inked faintlyFound in aplenty,But the whiter variety of it too is thereRarer to be seenSo is the datura flowers,Generally, whiter or mellowed,But the inkish of blue ink sprinkled faintlyNot so in a plenty.Both of these wayward flowers and bloomsDearer to…
The rape victims,
To be leftOn the footpaths of life,The crossroads of life,Are they,They for to die?The old mind-set,Mind-set of IndiaNever did I,Did I admire it,Admire it,Old Indian mentality.