India - What Is That? Poem by Gajanan Mishra

India - and what is that?
Tanka ghivela put counter question,
Tanka a daily labourer here.
Not fact - Tanka has not heard
The name of Modi, Sonia, Rahul.
Not fact - he knows not about
Hands and lotus.
Tanka knows not about so many
Why, what, how.
And Tanka bothers not
Anything besides his belly
And the words of his sweetie
His wife.
Tanka cares not the new,
So also cares not the old.
Tanka knows not what happens
After vote.