Bolsonaro has declared

“God is Brazillian,”

When here we thought God to be

Hindu-Sanatan.

 

Does God speak in the Hebrew tongue,

Or does He speak in Greek?

Or, does he descant in Sanskrit,

Latin, Arabic?

 

Is God a polyglot,

And a democrat to boot?

Or do syllables of a dominant sound

His supremacy suit?

 

Alas, neither war, nor seminar

Has made a decisive break

To sort out the conundrum—

Time for God to speak?

 

If God be not a nationalist,

He better tell us why

In His name the nationalists

Our human kidneys fry.


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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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