This is India
Of bluff-masters,
Bogus and blunt men,
Those who had not to be Ph.D. guides are
And those who had to be
Are not.
My expertise is lying useless
Though they are using in my papers
On Jayanta Mahapatra, Keki N.Daruwalla,
Contemporary Indian English poetry
And D.H.Lawrence,
But I am yet not
A Ph.D. expert,
An external examiner of the thesis.
The men in the ladder go up to
And get promoted to the rank of the professor
And turn into guides and experts
And doctoral external examiners.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem