Mother India’s Fault
Thursday, 9. July 2009 - 4:16 AM
I stopped reading this blog long ago but was directed to read a specific post by a reader. To be fair, the post is not the focus of this entry; rather, a puke-inducing poem written by some Salil Tripathi. If I got it right, the poem is written in praise of his mother who taught him certain values. More specifically, it’s about communal harmony in India and how “they” have, at regular intervals, destroyed it. No prizes for guessing who are the “they” this poem refers to.
I’m no poet but I always believe in responding in kind.
Many heartfelt thanks to a long time reader who suggested the idea for my poem.
Mother India’s Fault
You were conceived of as not a mass of land
Whose only use is to be ploughed in every way for profit;
You were the womb that fed the seed
For years countless, awaiting and weathering and allowing
Your sons and daughters to discover the fruit of an Eternal Philosophy,
That after they discovered, they found light, and
Like light, which refuses to conceal itself, they shared
And hoisted you atop the rightful pedestal of
Mother of all civilizations.
These, your noble progeny conceived of you as not an
Expanse of sand and soil and forest and water and mountains and snow;
You were Timeless, they realized when they
Found You hidden behind the veil of Time;
You taught them these lessons coddling them on your soothing lap–
One alphabet, one syllable and one note at a time and
You earned your right to their worship
As Mother, as Goddess, as Hope, as Spirit,
And as Power.
But O Mother, were you also the same womb
That fed even seeds of perversion and poison
And gave them life as your own
Sons and daughters who grew up and then disrobed you
In words, in speech, in deeds, and in pictures
While your other children fawned upon your molestation in multiple modes
While yet others stood guard at the gates of this rapine–
These, your offspring, honour your own molestation as Art
While my brothers and sisters and I weep.
Our tears nary move them but in turn incites rage and ridicule.
In their world, pictures of their naked Mother brings them glitter and fame.
They promote partiality among us, your own children–
They say some brothers and sisters are more equal than others and
They ask us to ignore their taunts and indignities.
They mock us for worshipping You everywhere, in all forms, inanimate and human,
They ridicule we are old-fashioned to not
Discern fine art when canvases rendering Your naked body are exhibited and sold
Over glasses of liquor and for gold.
It pained me much and for long Mother–
But you only listen and answer with silence
It’s for me to find the answer myself;
My quest is still on Mother but I hear your hint.
These, your sons and daughters proclaim you were born in 1947
They care nary to learn, inebriated in their ignorance,
Their conception of You is rooted in their own rootlessness,
Their virtue, in hiding the faults of the brothers and sisters they are partial to
And to look away when some of these brothers rape you.
Are these your own children O Mother,
Who are proud they turned out this way?
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9. July 2009 - 4:22 PM
A note on seculars….
My colleague often keeps telling me about aligning to BOSSES, it reminds me of seculars, if you wants know why seculars are the way they are right now, its because of alignment.
Politicians align themselves to their vote bank, seculars who enjoy govt comforts aligns to political bosses.
Its all about vote bank,its not that seculars have eternal enmity on Hindus, its mostly business and to some extent amount fear.
If you create vote bank they will on your side.
I categorize the people as follows..
Secular – One how hate Hindus.
Secular Hindu – One who proclaims that all religion stands for peace (Like our Shri Shri Ravi Shankar)
Hindu(Communal) – One speaks truth, and strip the falsehood where ever it exists (Like Sita ram goel, SL Byraapa ect… )
-Raghu
9. July 2009 - 9:50 PM
How is that a poem in the first place? Your regulation sec-lib oped broken down at random places into chunks of words doesn’t make a poem, does it. Reminds of the time when, having perused similar poetry, I felt inspired to pen the following verse:
What luxury
Hath the Poet!
Would I be rather reborn
As a Poet?
I am not
Certainly not
Definitely not
Undeniably not
Irrefutably not
Indisputably not
A Poet
I do know
What
I
Like, but
I know not poetry
Nor art
Programming
A computer, said the don,
Is aesthetic experience,
Said the don,
Much like writing,
Said the don,
Music or poetry,
Said the don,
The real don,
Oh, what a WEB he wove,
In Metafont and hi-tex,
Professor Knuth, Don
But if I took
A piece of plaintext
Slashed it, backslashed it,
And slashed it again and escaped,
And called it a program,
Compiler wouldn’t
See my genius, nor would
Agree, that it’s a program,
And spew at me abuse
Very many foul words
And just give me
No ELF binary,
But shit, plainshit
What luxury
Hath the Poet!
Would I be rather reborn
As a Poet?
((C) Oldtimer. Originally published in my anthology titled: “Raindrops on Roses, Whiskers on Sex Kitten”)
10. July 2009 - 2:42 AM
who the f is this Salil Tripathi…??
excuse the profanity here.. but in my place the response to that “poem” from Tripathi wud have been something like this..
“Muh mein aayaa.. Bak Diya.. G***d mein aayaa hug diya”…
Now thats *real* poem; Fking morons!
10. July 2009 - 8:25 AM
>>> “You marched with other seven-year-old girls,
Singing songs of freedom at dawn in rural Gujarat,
Believing that would shame the British and they would leave India.
Five years later, they did.”
Note: Seven year olds singing songs of freedom made British leave india in shame.
1 point to the british for being so sensitive and shameful.
1 point to the sven year old who ‘believed’ in such qualities in british.
None to those who fought the british.
>>>>”You smiled,
When you first saw Maqbool Fida Husain’s nude sketches of Hindu goddesses,”
Note: Husain’s sketches were smile inducing.
1 point for Hussain’s ’sense of humor’
1 point for Husain’s ability to ‘touch’ the heart and make a person ’smile’.
1 point for the person smiling.
None to those who did not smile.
>>>>”And laughed,
When I told you that some people wanted to burn his art.”
Note: Art
1 point to Husain for ‘art’
1 point to the person who laughed.
None to those who did not.
>>>>”‘Have those people seen any of our ancient sculptures? Those are far naughtier,’
You said.”
Note: Ancient indians made ‘naughty’ sculptures. How naughty!
1 point for the person who saw naughtiness in ancient sculptures.
None for those who did not.
>>>>” Your voice broke,
On December 6, 1992,
As you called me at my office in Singapore,
When they destroyed the Babri Masjid.”
Note: Masjid.
1 point to the person who calls a building in which no namaz has been made for 40 years a Masjid.
None to those who see the building erected by an invader over a temple as a shameful mark of greed, conquest and subjugation.
>>>”‘We have just killed Gandhi again,’ you said.
We had.”
Note: Demolishing a dilapidated building on which puja was carried out for years, to build a proper temple in its place is killing Gandhi.
1 point to those who can make the above connection
None to those who do not
>>>>”Can anyone do such a thing any time?
You asked, aghast,
Staring at the television,
As Hindu mobs went, house-to-house,
Looking for Muslims to kill,”
Note: TV cameras followed the ‘Hindu mobs’ as they went house-to-house.
1 point to TV channels
None to the 200 odd Hindus who dies in the riots in the hands of ‘Hindu’ mobs.
>>>”After a train compartment in Godhra burned,
Killing 58 Hindus in February 2002. ”
Note: A train compartment burned itself.
1 point to those who understand that train compartments burn by itself.
None to those who did not and got burnt foolishly.
>>>>”You were right, each time.”
Note: ‘Right’ is to be like this.
1 point to those who are ‘right’ each time
None to ‘others’
>>>”After reading what I’ve been writing over the years,
Some folks have complained that I just don’t get it.
I live abroad: what do I know of India?
But I knew you; that was enough.”
Note: If you know ‘her’ (Teetsa, Shabana, Arundhati, Angana ..) that is enough. You know India.
1 point to those like her
1 point to those who know her.
None to those who don’t
>>>”And that’s why I turned out this way.”
Lamentable.
—–
But Mother India does have some cause for consolation that some of her children do produce admirable poems like Sandeep did.
10. July 2009 - 9:22 AM
I think Salil Tripathi would applaud that only in India would they name a road in the capital after Aurangzeb. That’d be like naming a street in Tel Aviv after Hitler or Mengele.
10. July 2009 - 4:30 PM
OT saar,
ROFL saar.
My praNAms to you saar.
12. July 2009 - 7:06 PM
Wasn’t the peadophile prophet a bit naughty? Imagine the material mf hussain would find with a 9 year old prepubescent ayesha, shadow of an invisible naughty prophet, and all the art and humor that goes with it?
12. July 2009 - 9:13 PM
Hey Sandeep,
Sorry for this offtopic comment but I thought this would interest you.
I wrote a on this.
PS – How do I send you a personal email? I could not find it in your blog. May be you get too many hate emails from the sekoolars; a sign that you are doing good work.
12. July 2009 - 11:20 PM
Bhavananda,
After reading the article in the link posted by you, I could only think of one slogan
“Do you have it in you? ”
(Indian army catch phrase)
13. July 2009 - 6:00 AM
Sudhir,
As long as one is not impotent, biologically speaking, and avoid contraceptives of any kind, one doesn’t need much within to set up a baby factory. Neither is it difficult to set up a small harem with three women, as long as it has religious backing.
The bigger question is, unlike being in an army, is this worth something having at all?
13. July 2009 - 7:43 PM
Bhavananda,
I find the mentality of the person amazing. How can he even think of giving good standard of living to all his off-springs. Most of the people will be detered by the economic burden involved in the whole exercise.
If you look closes, this has continues. 21 children have produced 65 grandchildren at an average of 3 per children. What astonishes me is that children have not learnt from their own experience.
13. July 2009 - 7:44 PM
“If you look closes, this has continues” typo – If you look closely, this has continued
13. July 2009 - 10:20 PM
“What astonishes me is that children have not learnt from their own experience.” – There’s hardly anything amazing here. As it says in the punch line – its all a benediction of Allah.
13. July 2009 - 11:23 PM
Check this article in Hindu as to how media fanned the riots in Shopian in Kashmir and push it as if army (Hindus ) committed the crime.
http://www.hindu.com/2009/07/12/stories/2009071255830800.htm
“Based on the accounts of individuals claiming to be eyewitnesses, newspapers said that one victim’s forehead had been smeared with sindoor — an allegation that suggested that the rapists were Hindus, and the rape itself macabre religion-driven hate crime. However, the Commission noted, the red marks on her forehead were in fact blood from a head wound. “The flow of blood,” the report states, “was shamefully distorted and projected as a mark of sindoor.””
14. July 2009 - 9:20 PM
From the above:
“But both journalists and the Jammu and Kashmir government have maintained a stoic silence on one institution blamed by Justice Jan for spreading falsehood and inciting violence: the media itself.”
Justice Jan. How interesting.
Suppose the Commission was headed by Comrade Arundhati “More Bile Republic” Roy. What would it have concluded? It would have said that Bajrang Dal activists raped the women and carved “Om” on their foreheads with knives before stuffing their guts with burning rags.
Suppose the famous Islamic rights activist Teesta Setalvad headed the Commission. What would she have said? Naturally, that Modi’s men went to Kashmir by Sabarmathi Express to pull foetuses out of these pregnant women.
Justic SriKrishna Commission on Shopian incidents would unequivocally have declared that the victims were last seen being dragged into the woods by Shiv Sena activists on June 5th, and so Bal Thackeray is culpable. (The women were actually found dead on May 29 — but such small matters as chronological order of events don’t matter to this Commission).
The media may not be at fault after all. The Commission was not being run by the right person.
14. July 2009 - 9:23 PM
Justice Banerjee. How can anyone forget Justice Banerjee? The Banerjee Committee, after a study tour of Europe, would have declared that Varun Gandhi on the orders of LK Advani fired his revolver in Philibhit, and the bullets hit their targets in Shopian. The Committee would have scientifically proved its point.