India Poem by Jan Oskar Hansen

India

I looked it up on the map, India
it is a big country, and I know absolutely nothing
about its interior.
I once was in Calcutta`s airport but this
doesn`t make me an expert.
I wrote a poem about the last Bengali tiger,
but know little of its fauna,
I didn`t like when Prime Minister Modi eradicated
the smallest currency of rupee it was not fair for
the small traders.
Then again he might have had a good reason
as I know next to nothing about India other than
it is the world`s biggest democracy,
which I find surprising and have my doubts if it
is possible to practise democracy in such diverse
a country, like several states, hammered into one.