Is It Democracy Poem by Bharati Nayak
Is It Democracy
Is it Democracy
Is it democracy
When a ballot is sold for
A few hundred rupees
A free meal, or a bottle of country liquor?
Is it democracy
If after gaining free Government
For sixty-nine years
Majority can not read and write
And at election time
Wooed to voting booths
With tall promise?
What meaning it has
For a country poor
Whose stomach burns
out of hunger
Or for that farmer
Who commits suicide
As he can not pay back Bank loans.7
If democracy stands for
Liberty, equality and justice
I think we are far way behind.
Let us work to make it meaningful
Where freedom means free mind
Ballot is not sold
Equality is not in name sake
Equal opportunity to all in true sense
Let the elections be fought for human values
Where not ballot, but life counts.
Time will definitely come when people will realise the mistakes as their conditions are not going to improve in this way. Public is going to shun dishonest politicians who show their faces during election times with tall promises. Nice poem.
Brave utterances set aside for deep reflective thought. A forthright, patriotic rendition written from the heart. Remain enriched, Madam.
With weak institutions vulnerable to be exploited by elite state actors, most third world countries and some of the second worlds, continue to witness the rotation of like-minded political predators who have no qualms regulating the masses for poverty.
Is it democracy, when a person elected under the banner one political party switches sides to another party for a few crores of Rupees? Is it democracy if politicians, MPs and MLAs are bikaoo? Up for sale? This is essentially what is happening in India today…
Thank you Bharati Nayak. I am happy that I have a friend who thinks about the improper ways of politicians to come to power. Please read my poem 'Frailty thy name is democracy....10
Many thanks Parameswaran Nair Damodaran Nair ji for kindly reading and commenting on my poems.It really inspires me.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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12/5/2025 12:36:50 AM # 1.0.0
Democracy is the right of questioning why when how and what. But muscle and money in our state perspective, always guide us to acknowledge the fact who dares to question to the state authority is the terrorist. The level is cheap than to give answer of the common people. Here you have done well to make people courageous by raising your voice. It's not any slogan, a poem written by lucid words. A poem that heart speaks loud. Thank you.10+
Thank you very much for reading my poem and giving your valuable opinion on Democracy.I fully agree- -Democracy is the right of questioning why, when how and what.If this right is taken away from people, then it is no democracy.It is Dictatorship.