we are a fashionable caste
or tribe you may call:
our forefather Mayo Dhed
had a shirt of 3 sleeves,
his father had a shroud as his shirt
and his father wore a shirt of his own skin.
i am no less fashionable –
just got a pocketless, sleeveless, buttonless
Peter England, the second
from the mall road pavements i sweep.
or tribe you may call:
our forefather Mayo Dhed
had a shirt of 3 sleeves,
his father had a shroud as his shirt
and his father wore a shirt of his own skin.
i am no less fashionable –
just got a pocketless, sleeveless, buttonless
Peter England, the second
from the mall road pavements i sweep.
i flaunt it like Salman
Khan,
the bare chested
Bollywood hero.
every high caste girl is tempted to pay her respects
to the label of the
lords,
but without touching my collar-bone.
Our shirt has a song to sing
of bizarre fashions.
(note: In medieval Gujarat, untouchables, now known as dalits, were forced to wear 3-sleeved shirt so that caste-Hindus can identify them and keep away from them. The local dalit folklore has a hero called Mayo Dhed who sacrificed his life for doing away with such humiliating practice.)
but without touching my collar-bone.
Our shirt has a song to sing
of bizarre fashions.
(note: In medieval Gujarat, untouchables, now known as dalits, were forced to wear 3-sleeved shirt so that caste-Hindus can identify them and keep away from them. The local dalit folklore has a hero called Mayo Dhed who sacrificed his life for doing away with such humiliating practice.)
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