A land of
villages, religions,
Festivals,
shrines and youth.
From Narendra
Modi to Rahul Gandhi
Pompous politics and piercing poverty
Everything you
can find here
None can you
fail to spot.
Bustling
Bhojpuri to Kannadigas
To vulnerable
Meithei and Mizo
Eight hundred and
eighty languages
In twenty-nine
states, packed with
Beliefs,
attitudes, norms and karma.
From rooted
misogyny to fierce feminism
Women politics
and CEOs to glorified dowry
Everything was
cultivated here
Things merged
into sub-things
Goddesses worshipped, devadasis dismissed.
On caste
commotion, Aryans blamed
Superior to
suppress, fear of flame, exposure
These days,
Brahmins also loud-speaker
Reservations,
and more reservations
Youth only to
sit back and bleat?
Lauded startups to screeching schools
Grinning faces
of children, incandescent
Hope, hope do we
There subsists
so many mores and folks
Who, when,
where, and what do you
Find elsewhere
which is so much here?
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