Misplaced Emphases — Badri Raina

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Misplaced Emphases

BADRI RAINA | Caravan Daily

I ask you, how do you judge

An expansive nation?—

By the number of people out of work,

Or the numbers having fun?

 

Do you say we are down to hundred

In the global hunger index,

Or that we are up by thirty

In the ease of doing business?

Do you say we have vigilante violence,

Surveillance and rape?

Or do you note how loyal men

Are protected or escape?

 

Do you say we talk too much,

And deliver rather little?

Or do you say our propaganda

Scores over disgruntled chattel?

 

Do you say we die each day

From lies, damn lies, and pollution?

Or do you say in the bullet train

Resides our solution?

 

Should we the scavenger mourn,

Or note his life at all?

Or laud the one who the anthem sings

In a patriotic cinema hall?

 

Indeed, what should a true nationalist do—

Just sidestep or scratch his head?

Or contest the cussed misleaders,

And snore in a nice, warm bed?

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