Nissim Ezekiel's Gandhian Patriot And His Pidgin-Indian English Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

Nissim Ezekiel's Gandhian Patriot And His Pidgin-Indian English



Why don't you understand,
What did it Bapu say to,
I saying and saying,
But you understanding,
Understanding it not,
What did it Bapu,
The Father of all,
My Father, your Father,
His Father, their Father,
Why don't, don't you,
The Father of all,
Of the whole nation?

I am saying,
But you taking it not,
I am saying and saying,
But you hearing it not, ,
What Gandhi is for,
What his teachings,
A votary of peace,
World peace was he,
A living god of ahimsa,
Satya and shanti,
But you taking meat,
Eggs and omlette,
Believing me not.

Forbade I to take meat,
But took you
As cannot from,
You a modern boy
Rather than lassi
Like you drinking
Cold drinks,
Earthen pitcher water not,
But fridge water,
Suggested I to take goat milk
As Gandhi took he
Refused you to take
As felt you vomiting
To hear of it.

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