GANDHI LAMENTS... Part III

GANDHI LAMENTS

M K Gandhi is credited for leading the Indian struggle for Independence from the British rule. There is no doubt that he sacrificed greatly and suffered prison terms and persecution by the authorities. He is known for fighting against racial discrimination in South Africa before he returned to India. Gandhi practiced and preached non violence even against enemy and although India gained freedom, India was bifurcated and Pakistan was created. Gandhi was honored with titles of father of nation and Mahatma (Great soul). MK Gandhi is also severely criticized for his Muslim appeasement polices and bifurcation of India is held against his polices and consequently he was assassinated by Nathuram Vinayak Godse on 30 January 1948 at Birla Mandir while proceeding for the prayer. Sixty years have passed since gaining of independence and over these years, the politicians in India have used Gandhi’s name for acquiring power and winning elections while Gandhi is discarded into a dust bin. The moral path shown by him is discarded and the politics in the country have become a cess pool and India has earned great ill reputation as the most corrupt nation in the world. Democracy is on paper while in spirit and practice it is violated to the hilt. Dynastic rule is the order of the day. The moral fiber has dissipated. Gandhi’s soul hovering in the sky without attaining peace probably must be crying loud beating its bared chest with anguish at the fallen norms and failure of his vision. Probably, he must be repenting for getting freedom for India after seeing the downfall in India. His anguish is presented as a set of poems.

I am the Gandhi the bald and frank

Although many feel that I was a crank

Professed to people to be afraid of God

While some nuts shook their heads as buffaloes nod

I am the Gandhi with lot of guts

Many felt that I was the greatest nut

Politics in India have collected lot of rust

And many are crazy for the ever growing lust

Gandhi’s name is the gateway for duping people

While poor go hungry with rich eating rosy apple

None is bothered for the father of nation

While army guys hang around waiting at railway stations

I am the Gandhi the real hero

While the present pseudo Gandhis are a big zero

Gandhi’s name is used as a word of magic

But people have failed to use their heads and logic

I am the Gandhi of freedom movement

While pseudo Gandhis have ruined the government

Real Gandhi languished in British jails

While the present Gandhis have put nation off the rails

I am the Gandhi who can weep and then sleep

Now my deeds are buried fathoms deep

I freed India from the British shackles

While some prefer to wear again the British hackles

I feel sorry and getting mad

For peoples wisdom and the maddening fad

I pray to the God to give them some wisdom

And save India from becoming some ones kingdom

At times my statues are blasted by bombs

Some communists want my memory to be in tombs

The heads of my statues ate cut with a crude knife

In India without Gandhi congress has no political life

I wanted the congress to be closed and rolled up

While my men never wanted to give up the golden cup

Lost is my golden India of my sweet dreams

As Indian ladies run after foreign face creams

Some of my statues are without a stick in my hand

And a rum bottle is stuck in the hand by a vagabond

Strings of flags are tied to my weak neck

While urchins nearby play dice to try their luck

I am the Gandhi the most simple

And gave Britishers scores of oozing pimples

The sun that never sank on the English horizon

Finally sunk when we fought in unison

I am the Gandhi without ant teeth

Have given the nation free air to breath

People have taken me to be real mad guy

And all are buys eating roasted chicken and fish fry

I dreamt of India of being a Ram Raj

Having thrown out the British barge

India has grown to be a most corrupt nation

As army swallows tons of free rations

I was humane and loved all animals]

Some curators in India eat way caged mammals

Tigers are skinned in India zoos

These crimes are passed into police history pages

I am the Gandhi with low blood pressure

And tried to reduce communal fissures

Leaders in India create vote banks

And they in parliament play many pranks

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