A TRIBUTE

Dear Friend

Here is my tribute to the Delhi rape victim

Express your anguish , add your own verse ( and your name ) , at the end and forward to your “ Contact Group “ ( available in Outlook / GMail / Yahoo Mail etc )

Then request them to do likewise

Let , a million version of this tribute echo in the hearts on all Indians

  

But  Democracy  is  a  good  thing !

The Girl is dead

India’s darling daughter is dead

But democracy is alive

And democracy is a good thing.

Every year

21,000 mothers , daughters , sisters get raped,

Countless others burnt to dowry-death;

Poor starve or, shelter less

Freeze on footpath;

On each rainless day

A hundred farmers commit suicide

But democracy is alive

And democracy is a good thing

Each year , 1,600,000 children die of malnutrition

Even as millions of tons of grain

Rot under sun and rain

Thousands die of tobacco smoke

But democracy is alive

And democracy is a good thing

Hundreds die in floods

Few thousands die crossing railway tracks

A million children die working for 18 hours

In dark / dungeon slave factories

Living on a slice of bread and glass of dirty water

But democracy is alive

And democracy is a good thing

Where else but in a democracy

Do people have a right

To vote / select their own Masters

Who , for the next five years, will

Ø  Silence them

Ø  Torture them

Ø  Maim them

Ø  Loot them

Ø  Rape them

Ø  Murder them

Cry, Beloved Motherland

And don’t stop crying

Till your tears sweep these tyrants into the Arabian Sea !

Hemen Parekh