Anna, Had Gandhi Been Alive…(Your Bandars, Not Gandhiji’s, But Like Jayprakash’s) Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

Anna, Had Gandhi Been Alive…(Your Bandars, Not Gandhiji’s, But Like Jayprakash’s)



Anna, what are you doing here
With your monkeys,
Not the three monkeys of gndhi,
Do not see bad,
Do not speak bad,
Do not hear bad?

Yea, in the replica,
The three sititng monkeys
With the hands on the mouth,
On the eyes
And on the ears.

But your monkeys different,
Politicizing and politicking,
All wanting to come into power,
Doing the power-politics game,
I mean
The urban fellows,
The city dwelling men and women.

Anna, had Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi been alive,
I mean your political mentor,
Whom saw you or not,
But is,
As call you,
Would have definitely snubbed you,
Scolded you for politicking
Though a politician of some sort was he too.

And lo, the pedestrians too turning into the leaders
Of the AAP Party,
The unknown citizens unfurling the flags,
A party of the common men, by the common men and for the common men!
But the common men after becoming uncommon men
Will quarrel as the stray cats and dogs do
And the enterprise will close down untimely.

Anna, your bandars I am seeing now,
Gandhiji’s have already seen,
But to me
Yours too will turn like those
Of Jayprakash Narayan,
Gnashing and chattering the teeth
To come to hold by hand and bite
Wherever it is prone to and easier
To be bitten;
Just wait and watch
What it happens.

Gandhi’s bandars saw I,
Jayprakash’s have I
And now am I seeing those of Anna,
Team India Captain
In the whites,
But those of Jayprakash were wild, tameless and unmanageable
Which Praksh too would have felt
On marking the cowboys, buffalomen and lathimen,
Students, loafers, rowdies, ruffians en masse.

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