We  just proved that in the end

It is not the economy, stupid.

Hindutva armed with war-like purpose

Is a more potent Cupid.

 

What if investment is zero now,

And manufacture slightlessly lesser;

So long as inspiring  Hindutva icons

Adorn the national Dresser.

 

Consumption, that third driving force

Of the Economy’s GDP growth,

May also have lost some appetite,

And gone into the sloth;

 

And unemployment may be ubiquitous

And farmer’s suicides at all-time high;

All is well so long we say

“Bharat Mata Ki Jai.”

 

Exports may now be paralyzed,

And growth, in truth, at a one percent sum;

We will yet outstrip the growth leaders

Should we with vigour chant “Vande  Mataram.”

 

After all, in glorious Vedic times

We had the Internet,

In-Vitro know-how, and apothecaries

Who carried the plastic-surgery kit.

 

We had the internal-combustion engine,

We  flew the aeroplane–

All that and more, till the Saracen  invaders

Dampened our elan.

 

That teaches us why our economy

Is inseparable from Hindutva nationhood—

A  fact that our electoral victories now

Make much better understood.

 

Decades of secular hobnobbing

Brought our country low;

We now have come into our own,

All things will now improve.

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