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| Malashri Lal |
Come join me.
This frugal meal of porridge
in a wooden bowl
defies the opulence of my hosts in London.
My homespun dhoti
Is my answer to bow-ties and tails.
India has people who linger in poverty,
The nation’s wealth plundered by these
British.
Quit India.
Resistance is simple Satyagraha,
We are used to fasting
Resistance is abjuring foreign cloth,
Charkha khadi is ample for draping our body,
Resistance is women and men casting jewels and coins
into the coffers of our nationalist yatra.
A handful of goras
have tried erasing our heritage,
Hypnotised our own people into attacking their peers.
What misrule is this gouging, grating brutality?
We are not helpless
We are not slaves
Raktabeej and demons have been destroyed by Shakti before.
The weapon against violence is
Our veracity
My body may be silenced but not my spirit
Which will prevail eternally in the vision of an
equitable and
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