What in Nature is more
Horrifying than starving
Children with blank eyes, and
Mothers hugging them as
Though they still had life?
The misery of the Rohingyas
Ought to be a knife in every
Heart, including that of the
Hindu Samrat. But it is not.
You see, they are not just
Rohingyas but Muslim as well,
Bringing good Burmese Buddhists
To disrepute, as opposed to the
Good Hindu Tamils of Sri Lanka
Who may have blown up an Indian
Prime Minister but shook the
Bad Buddhists of Sri Lanka
To the root. In any event, if
The good Muslims of Saudi
Arabia full of Mecca, Medina,
And petro dollar will not fetch
Them, why should we, friends
Of the Saudis, touch them?
May I, bleeding Liberals, however,
Wish with the Bard that we could
Aanatomize the Neros of the earth
To see what in history makes
A hard heart. What makes Saudi
Muslims good Muslims and
Rohingya Muslims a bad lot.
Alas, while policymakers in
High places work out the
How and the why, desperate
Rohingyas die, die, die.
Badri Raina is a well-known commentator on politics, culture and society. His columns on the Znet have a global following. Raina taught English literature at the University of Delhi for over four decades and is the author of the much acclaimed Dickens and the Dialectic of Growth. He has several collections of poems and translations. His writings have appeared in nearly all major English dailies and journals in India.
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