A Lively Dialogue With 26th January(India s Republic Day) ********************************************** MK.SHERWANI: ************ Before I pay my tribute to your dignity, Before I offer my deference to your solemnity; May I stir your conscience, Oh ! 26th January ! With a mind in turmoil, and heart sunk in purity. Are you the same, which sixty years ago, Gave a sacred script to the nations posterity; That showed to all sections, faiths and creeds, A beautiful dream of justice and equality. 26,JANUARY: *********** Like a captive, with my soul writhing in pain, I was long waiting for a person of your integrity; Your voice is pious, your emotions are clean, Open your bosom! I will show you my veracity. MK.SHERWANI: ************ The rich, with their wealth, exploiting the poor, The weak collapsing under the powers brutality; The impoverished dying of hunger and suicide, Is it all happening under your name and authority.? Behind the gorgeous display of missiles and guns, You make a vain attempt to hide your falsity; With resounding trumpets of glory and progress , You disguise the RULERS vices and criminality. 26,JANUARY: *********** Your words are truthful, your agonies are genuine, To my enemies, they may sound a rebels audacity; I am the repository of your aspirations and hopes, Beyond all doubts are my honesty and probity. Emerging from the graves and ashes of my martyrs, I was inspired by their sacrifice and humility; Those whom I believed and trusted have betrayed me, My infancy became a curse, my innocence, a fatuity; But still I confide in you, Oh The son of my soil! The secret of my birth, and the words of sagacity; It was the blood of the poor that brought my dawn, The blood of the poor will feed me till my maturity. These tremors and quakes will bring an era , For the weak and deprived to bask in sublimity; With oppression, crime and corruption gone, They will joyfully sing the song of eternal verity. Sare jahan se achchha Hindostan hamara, Ham bulbulein hein iskee, yeh gulsitan hamara. ------------ --------- --------- --------- ---- Mazhab naheen sikhata apus mein beir rakhna, Hindi hein hum, vatan hei Hindostan hamara. Iqbal ************ ********* ****** Dr. Mustafa Kamal Sherwani,LL. D. Lucknow ,India sherwanimk@yahoo +91-9919777909
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