My vision for
India:
An India where the
buffalo roam, and the cows are at home,
Where the streets
are unpaved, and made of mud
Where there is
some game…
Kabbadi, or
Carroms, a little bit of Chess there too…
A land of Ayurveda
and Shastras
A land of Indian
fashions
The dhoti and the
kurta
The skirt and the
dupatta
The jewellery and
the pageantry
The veena and the
table
The sitar and the
pagoda
The temple where
the poor can spend all night
The guru and the
shishya
Where one chooses
one’s caste
And is not born
into it
An India of
everchanging hues
Here today, and
gone tomorrow
A new India, every
day
All that I wrote
about above was what India was
But it is a new
day, and who knows what to say?
Then here I say,
“Let us walk our
land, from up to down
Around and around
And around again
Walk until we feel
we’re done
And if possible,
walk again
When we are at
peace and the need is met
Then let us eat
And bless God for
the good land that He gave us.
What do we eat?
Any herb with
seed,
Any shrub with
seed
Any tree with
fruit with seed in it.
No creepers or
climbers please…..
Those who go
further and are pure non-vegetarian can have
Animals which both
chew the cud and have cloven feet,
Both criteria, not
just one
Anything in the
waters that has fins and scales
Oh it is all a
game
Easily seen
criteria, that you can tell,
Just by looking,
at the animal
And the birds…?
It seems to me
that they can be any, just not scavengers
Define that please
Oh do it yourself
If you think a
bird is a scavenger, don’t eat it…
If you think it
eats fresh things, like worms that it hunts and kills
Then I suppose you
can eat it…
Or maybe just don’t
eat birds.
WE are humans,
made in the image of God,
Hence we eat the
best of all that is there
And the plants
which have no seeds,
Well, those are
for the animals….
Long live the
moment!
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