Becoming A Brahmin Poem by Meena Kandasamy

Becoming A Brahmin

Rating: 3.1


Algorithm for converting a Shudra into a Brahmin

Begin.

Step 1: Take a beautiful Shudra girl.
Step 2: Make her marry a Brahmin.
Step 3: Let her give birth to his female child.
Step 4: Let this child marry a Brahmin.
Step 5: Repeat steps 3-4 six times.
Step 6: Display the end product. It is a Brahmin.

End.

Algorithm advocated by Father of the Nation at Tirupur.
Documented by Periyar on 20.09.1947.

Algorithm for converting a Pariah into a Brahmin

Awaiting another Father of the Nation
to produce this algorithm.

(Inconvenience caused due to inadvertent delay
is sincerely regretted.)

[First published in The Little Magazine]

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Ravindran Govindaraju 17 February 2013

I APPRECITE YOUR LATERAL THINKING; A MALE SHUDRA IS ALWAYS A SHUDRA TILL HIS DEATH. SUR NAME, SANS NO INDIAN HAS A OWN FACE FOR HIS IDENTITY.

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Upendra Upm 02 August 2017

why convert? Shudra is versatile in the battle of life..His/her hands and limbs are agile and move according to the wish of the earth and professions.They are more aligned to the heat, dust of the planet.But poem is beautifully written

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Sylvia Frances Chan 02 August 2020

Ah, Dr. Tony Brahmin of PH Poem site, is he wearing that name because he is also Brahmin? Gorgeous poem! Love to read the Tuth. I am another teller of The Truth, that's about God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit from the Bible, also The Truth. I like to read honest poems. A 10+++ Full score.

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Xxxyyyzzz 19 July 2020

Yeah it's the Shudra recipe!

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Sylvia Frances Chan 02 August 2018

As a non Indian inhabitant I am shocked very much after having read this poem full of thruth. Thank you so much for sharing. In China they only want a babyBOY and now this big country lacks girls-women with whom the men can marry. And now this in India, but I do think, this caste system can never disappear OR the Indian Government must change its law, methinks. Thank you for sharing this biggest truth.

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Lot of pain in these words. Don't know whom to blame. Caste system continues in India.

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Dr Antony Theodore 12 February 2018

may i call it the evils of the indian society........ should we follow such thinking even in this 21st. centuary. we are all loved by the Almighty. we are all his children devoid of cast, creed, and colour. tha nk you very much for this poem. tony

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