Monday, October 21, 2019

bhoodevas and rest of the wretched insects




my dear invitees in  this assembly - 
Aryans, Dravidians and the rest,
Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, Shudras and the rest,
dwijas and the rest,

bhadrajans, harijans, girijans, itarjans, and the rest,
people of high castes , backward castes and the rest,
yajmans, dependents and the rest,
savarnas, avarnas, varnasankaras and the rest,
sanatanis, marajadis and the rest,

Shaivites, Vishnavites, Pranamis, Terapanthis and the rest,
red-tilakwalas, yellow-tilakwalas, and the rest,
nagars, rustics and the rest,

Kadva, Leuva, Anjana, Amin and the rest,
Hathi, Ghoda, Mankad, Machchhar and the rest,
Shahbuddin Rathod, Joseph Macwan, Milind Priyadarshi and the rest,

members of the Saurashtra-Kutchch Kshatriya Mochi Samaj and the rest, 
members of the 6-village Patidar community and the rest,
members of KHAM, members of AJGAR and the rest,

alas, i will not be able to address this congregation
of innumerable castes and communities and clans and creeds !
you made of men a circle, a triangle, a quadrangle, a pyramid
out of one Man, you made out two, three, four and 24000 men !

i will not be able to address this assembly of Indian citizens,
my dear Bhoodevatas and the rest of the wretched insects.

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