BADRI RAINA | Caravan Daily
Begging, your honour, is a crime;
It embarrasses the nation,
Which, as everybody knows, is
Full of hype and elation.
In fact, hunger by itself
Is a most heinous crime;
Images of hungry millions
Shame those who eat all the time.
After all, between the image and
The reality, the former matters most;
The image must be the reality made
To be great at any cost.
Beggars, if beg they must,
Best beg for banking loans
That run into lofty millions
And make of beggars dons.
Good governments can hardly countenance
Beggars at traffic crossings;
When at bottom they survive
By beggar-dons blessings.
