Thank heavens we now know what is wrong

With this nation of nations—

Too damn much of everything—

Parties, languages, religions.

 

After seventy years of dispersal,

Our unities have gone bust;

Caught between militants and democrats,

We have lost our destined thrust.

 

The good doctor having diagnosed

The what, how, and why;

A formula is underway

To hit the bull’s malignant  eye.

 

A bipoly system will sort out the first,

Namely, needless political cacophony;

Hindi will shut the Babel down,

And “Jai Shri Ram” eliminate religious polyphony.

 

Next the people will elect

The leader straightaway;

Parties, parliament will realize

They have had their pointless day.

 

The world will see a power rise—

A  Vishwa Guru on high;

Where every citizen will a soldier be,

And every nation a devotee.

 

For millennia has this ordained agenda

Been stymied by semitic races;

But now with stringent laws in place,

The future will switch its faces.


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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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