Independence Day Special!

God didn’t create boundaries, did he?
Then there are those who guard them with their lives,
The war has been long over, insurgency its new face,
The dead solider never makes news,
Bullets and medals all the same,
And damn these Islamic buffoons,
Taliban, Al-Qaeda, ISI,
For not knowing how to read Koran!

They should learn from us,
We know patriotism as the national anthem,
Playing in a movie hall,
The tri-coloured flag swaying on top of Government buildings,
The bonnet of a minister’s car,
As a nation we are starved,
Starved of a bigger cause,
Independent in name,
Enslaved, a democracy of billion plus,
Reservation, corruption, bloody politics,
Mere words,
Endless discussions on the fate of eleven people
Chasing a cork ball,
And they call it a religion!

Yet, in the debris of a population explosion,
The world connected by a tweet,
There are those whose heart swells with pride,
Corporate jobs chucked in favour of villages,
Great wealth pledged to the poor,
To feel a kinship to the homeless rag-picker
Sixty-five years of independence,
Must mean every man can hold his head high,
Patriotism round the year for the office goer, tax payer,
Only then can India shine.