! Gandhi - Experiment With Truth Poem by Rema Prasanaa

! Gandhi - Experiment With Truth

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Dandi....
Boiling sea water, lumps of salt
salt of freedom,
flavor of decades

Freedom
sixty years plus... aged and tired
free not in mind
incredible

Gandhi
Do you know?

Yes.. Yes..Yes..!

Gandhi my father
Munnabhai
Richard Attenborough’s Gandhi....

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Who?
Mahatma Gandhi father of the Nation
Mohandas.... Gandhi.. who?

Gandhi...
half naked fakir in loin drape
struggle, salt
non cooperation
non violence
Yerwada Jail,
division, bloodshed
midnight’s freedom
fruit – bitter sweet

At the end
a fanatic
shot and killed Gandhi
Hey Ram, a prayer...

Experiment with truth- bitter?

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
rohit sapra 24 July 2008

Experimentation with truth is a continuous process which can't change the impact of truth even if one isn't alive in flesh and blood and the fanatic who killed Gandhiji wasn't able to kill the philosophy of Truth which holds true till today. Lovely topic to write about. It feels so nice to know that people in today's world still do remember things he achieved.

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Sulaiman Mohd Yusof 21 July 2008

the gandhi i know is 'the man of all'........great man..........and great indian!

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Ramesh T A 21 July 2008

Yet, even now Gandhi smiles in the Currency Notes seeing all these things! Indeed Gandhi spirit is needed everywhere now!

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premji premji 20 July 2008

Gandhi is an embodiment of pain and stoic endurance. please read my poem 2020, and compare ramarajya and a nation after the nuclear deal.

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Sathyanarayana M V S 20 July 2008

Your poem & the reminiscences of Mahathma....my heart is filled with pain and vulnerability. What can I say? except shed a tear for that great man

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Ranjit Ravindran 17 October 2009

Gandhiji and you selected this title very carefully....Not at all misleading... Touching composition.

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Ashraful Musaddeq 06 October 2008

A moving composition on Gandhi. Love it.

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Ivan Donn Carswell 30 July 2008

If ever a person was worth his 'salt' it was Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. His belief in non-violence and truth whilst living a modest and self-sufficient life must be a worthy beacon to all. Indeed a fitting tribute to a great man. Rgds, Ivan

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Sivan P.G Menon 27 July 2008

rema... atimely intervention! ! I am dejected..frustrated..seing happpening s in Bangaluru..karnavati ...... the stealth of human flesh is yet to be blown away.. in Bangaluru...& Karnavati... (Ahmedabad- Gujarat) a place sanctified by HIS touch... regret dear Sabarmati... we have been experimenting with PEACE for last sixty... we are clueless..... topical...& thought provoking... sivan..

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Indira Babbellapati 24 July 2008

truth is bitter n the experiments naturally are more bitter...doesn't 'my experiments...' reveal that?

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