In the beginning it was a small town
Now it has become big.
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This is India,
Administrators, academicians, civil servants,Doctors, teachers, officials,Common people, labourers, wage earnersWho is whose and what is whose,I cannot,Who is what and what is who,Who will become what and what it who when?
If the govt. is welfare-oriented,
Does it giveLicense to wine shops,Ale houses,Liquor stalls,BarsBy the roadside,In the market placeAnd the bazaar,SprawlingOn the highwaysTo make the drivers drinkAnd fall flatWith vehicles?
Under the starlit skies
And slowly and sadlySaw I my motherVanishing into the gloom.Sitting, wearing newAnd bathingOr rounding about,Placing on the logsAnd the fire was lit.Under the skies,She lay burningAnd they giving Hari bols,Hari bol, Hari bol, Hari bol,Bol Hari bol, Hari bol,Ram nam satya hain, yahi sabo ka gatya hain.The body burnt to ashes,The navel kept burning,The figure…
Netaji, I think about your life, the hurdles and hazards of it,
The zigzagged curves and turns of it,The crisscrosses of life,What one thinks and what it happens.Your disappearance,The people debate it blindly,As nobody is there going to believe it,How did you disappear from,A much debated, never-ending topicAnd never to be believable?None is there to make one understand the plane-crash,Te iconic image of hisDwarfing it all,The round…
The night of the jackals and foxes,
But man busy in cleaning up it all.