I Cannot Be A Ph.D. Guide, But A Simple University Teacher Can Be, This Is India, You See Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

Instead of my researches, paper publications,
I am not a Ph.D. guide
As lie I in a college,
But the inferior candidates at the varsity
Are guides
And many are still doing Ph.D.,
But are not,
This is India,
You see.

Even after twenty years’ of intensive research
And poetry-writing,
I am not a Ph.D. guide
Nor a poet
As my c.v. tells it not,
Bluffs it not,
My bio-profile I myself do not
As have not tidied up my chits and bits
To enter into.

But what I have, this much I can assure you,
That you will not even
In the varsity professors
Of Allahabad, Patna, Hyderabad, Delhi,
Lucknow, Ahmedabad, Chennai, Vishakhapatnam,
Shillong, Gauhati, Itanagar,
This much I can assure you,
This much I can say to you
And the rest into the hands of your
To judge it right.