The Beating of War Drums – Badri Raina

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Indian Army personnel patrolling along the Line of Control. PHOTO: AFP
Indian Army personnel patrolling along the Line of Control. AFP

The Beating of Drums

PROF BADRI RAINA

 

These are the days of beating drums,

Of proclaiming an iron state;

Words are fired from motor mouths

Like bullets of  fatal hate.

 

Gone are the namby pamby days

When diffidence betokened thought;

At last we own the truth of things—

A privilege with power bought.

 

God help the dithering humanists

Who listen to the other side;

The other side is always wrong,

And we will have their hide.

 

 

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