The Firangi Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

The word firangi may be one
for the ones of a different complexion and colour,
not in tune with the locals,

may be faded in colour,
a nickname for the Europeans or the English then
during the struggle for freedom

while on the other
the multi-ethnic, multi-racial and multi-lingual India,
so diverse and varied in nativity,

ethnicity and the linguistic stock
had been so much segregated and torn apart,
the white man's burden indeed.