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Somewhere in mountains high,
It is snowing again,
In soft soundless flakes,
As the snow leopard awakes.
Somewhere where the oceans heave,
The Orca bursts in wondrous leap,
Where the waves mingle and meet,
Under a night sky glistening sweet.
Somewhere in the jungles hidden and wild,
The tuskers bathe and spray in delight,
As the eagle owls take to sky and alight
On lingering trees sleeping mild.
In the swirling wispy mists,
The butterfly in groves of trees sleeps,
Opening it’s beautiful wings in dreams
To the surge of life within.
She is a maid,
Thirty to thirty-five
years of age.
Three of her children,
She left in the village,
And the other two are here
with her, in the slum near.
They were starved,
She says
And had to get away.
From her village already
have come so many
to this suburb here,
In a slum near.
Her husband she says
works in a place
some distance away
and visits sometimes,
But mostly at night.
About a month back,
Forlorn and wane
in our service lane,
Looking half dead;
She wanted work,
As a maid.
Like shadows in lament,
Her voice is faint
And her name is Rinku;
But by god, can she argue!
Our driver, a pundit,
The first thing he did
was to find out her caste;
Which is the bit
that in this universe vast
matters to him first and last.
She is of low caste,
This he
with satisfaction informed.
But she is alright,
further he said;
As he is of a heart
of decency large.
Rinku’s baby daughter fell ill
a week back,
As when did
also our baby girl.
Both the babies recovered,
But yesterday, Rinku said
that returning home in evening,
she found her baby shivering
in vomit and urine.
Rinku is a maid,
Thirty to thirty-five
years of age.
Three of her children,
she left in the village,
And the other two are here
with her, in slum near.
If ever I die,
That will only be a reprieve,
For I shall walk again and again
In mystifying forms of Life.
Keep the sparrows alive,
Chirping from tree to balcony,
And the beautiful butterfly,
That sips the nectar honey.
Keep the eagles soaring,
Kissing the Sun high
And the tigers roaring,
That gods bow to knees nigh.
Ah, the life that runs wild
Gambols, cascades, spirits
In fascinating forms of life.
Let them be alive
For if I ever die
That will only be a reprieve
For I shall come again and again
To walk the wonderful forms of life.
It is not that I am uneducated,
In a decent subject have I graduated,
And also have a degree in law,
But these things can have their flaw
Nationalism, communism and jingoism,
And big fat books on humanism,
I don’t much know what they really say,
Even as others rage on them night and day
A mullaji is my left side neighbour,
One day, before his house, a mob did gather,
And all was in such great clamour,
Some with spear and some with dagger
Litti chokha I was eating in a dhaba nearby,
When I heard this rising cry,
Rushing back I told the mob, – hey bhai !
let’s first have litti chokha and some hot fry !
From the dhaba, the litti chokha was promptly brought,
Then with satiated bellies, some peace was sought,
They told me that mullaji was doing some converting,
I said but many starving belly too, daily he is feeding
And when the starving belly by charity is fed,
That charity more than religion it shall respect,
They left then doing nothing scary,
And mullaji still feeds many starving belly
So often now, everywhere, I hear these many,
Shouting how our country is better than any,
One day, in this hot-selling toddy shop,
I met this Mexican who was on a world hop
Soon, we were laughing, giggling and brothers in arms,
Raising toasts to god’s highest alms,
He told me of the version of toddy there in Mexico on tap,
And Mexico seems to be as good as the land here we have,
Then whether I am a nationalist or am I not ?
This question sometimes does trouble me lot
And then where I live, some go around as humanists,
And then there are others who are known as communists,
Of poverty, they would paint such pictures stark,
That often I thought how grand was their heart,
Till I learnt that inspite what they preach and say,
Their maids, drivers, cooks get the lowliest pay !
Nationalism, communism and jingoism,
And big fat books on humanism,
I don’t know much what they really say,
Even as others rage on them night and day
My name is worth a thousand sin,
Some carry and float away in the wind,
While some turn over the rosary bead
My name is worth a thousand sin,
Shall I take them to lime and gin?
Or shall I place them on the window sill?
My name is worth a thousand sin,
Some shamelessly mock and grin,
While some turn up at their whim