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A Poem
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>Date:A Tue, 30 Aug 1994 14:36:54 -0400 (EDT)
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by Murali Deddhu
If I say, "I am proud to be a Muslim"
They all say, "He is a man with an honest faith"
If I say, "I am proud to be a Christian"
They all say, "He is a good man with belief in his faith"
If I say, "I am proud to be a Hindu"
They all say, "He is a fundamentalist man with an ill placed faith"
So, Now I have learnt.
When they destroy a functioning temple;
"It was just a house of stones", I have learned to say.
When they destroy a non functioning mosque;
"I am ashamed to be a Hindu", I have learned to say.
When they write to ridicule people's belief in Lord Rama;
"What Lord, Did he even exist", I have learned to say.
When they write a fiction resembling a prophet of Allah;
"Ban that Goddamned book, hang that author", I have learned to say.
When they write 'Lojja' in the neighboring state;
"We are no better, so be more ashamed", I have learned to say.
When they loot and burn in reaction to death of a neighboring despot;
"They are just venting the feelings of grief and dispair",
I have learned to say.
When they want to raise the National flag on a public ground;
"Shame on them for being incosiderate to feelings of Anjuman-E-Islam",
I have learned to say.
Yes, I am ashamed for this, ashamed for that;
finally, ashamed for everything related to Hinduism,
I have learned to say
Chandan
cbando@lynx.neu.edu
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* "This life is short, the vanities of the world are transient, but they *
* alone live who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive" *
* - Vishwa Vivek *
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