INDIA IN RHYME

WRITTEN BY: ANURAG SAHOO

NEAR TO THE RIVER INDUS
THERE IS INDIA WHICH WAS PROSPEROUS

UNTIL THE BRITISHERS CAME
TO MAKE INDIA LAME

OF COURSE THEY GAVE US RAIL AND TELEPHONE
BUT REGULAR FAMINES SHOWED SKELETONS OF BONE

THEN CAME THE LIGHT OF INDEPENDENCE
BECAUSE GANDHIJI’S WORD MADE SOME SENSE

INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION HAPPENED
BUT THE INDO-PAK CRISIS DARKENED

THREE TIMES IN A ROW
INDIAN FORCES GAVE PAKISTAN THE BLOW

INDIRA GANDHI ORDERED TO COUNTER KHALISTANI INSURGENCY
SHE DID PUT THE NATION IN A STATE OF EMERGENCY

BUT DURING HER TERM, RAKESH SHARMA WENT TO SPACE
AND THE INDIAN CRICKET TEAM SHOWED THEIR ACE

POST LPG, INDIAN MARKET OPENED THEIR GATES
TO THE FOREIGN COMPANIES WHO PLACED THEIR BETS

IN 1992, SEBI WAS FORMED TO REGULATE STOCK EXCHANGE
AFTER WHICH STOCK TRADING IN INDIA BECAME A RAGE

IN 1999 STARTED THE KARGIL CONFLICT
IN WHICH PAKISTAN AGAIN HAS TO FACE DEFEAT

WHILE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IS BOOMING
AND PRIVATE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS ARE MUSHROOMING

SOFT DRINKS ARE FOUND WITH DEPOSITS OF PESTICIDE
AND DEBT RIDDEN FARMERS ARE COMMITTING SUICIDE

BOOM ALSO TOUCHED AVIATION AND RETAIL
WHICH LESSENED DUE TO FORAYING OF COMPANIES WITHOUT MUCH DETAIL

WHILE AVIATION THOUGHT INDIA TO BE THE JEWEL
THE THOUGHT BECAME A NIGHTMARE DUE TO RISING PRICE OF FUEL

AND RETAIL WAS IN THE UPPER HAND
BUT HIGH REAL ESTATE COST MADE IT HARD TO ACQUIRE LAND

NAXALS ARE HARRASSING INDIA WITH DILLIGENCE
AS THEY WERE FED UP WITH GOVERNMENT’S NEGLIGENCE

TELECOM BOOM SAW IN EVERY INDIAN HANDS A PHONE WHICH WAS MOBILE
IT WAS A TREND WHICH ATTRACTED OLD PEOPLE AS WELL AS JUVENILE

WHILE EDUCATION AND HEALTH IS STRIVING FOR DEVELOPMENT
DELHI METRO IS A NOBLE STEP BY THE GOVERNMENT

BRANDS HAVE GOT AMPLE SCOPE OF PENETRATION
LET ME GIVE YOU A GOOD ILLUSTRATION

INDIANS ARE DRIVING BMW, MERCEDES AND JAGUAR
WHILE TATA ALSO LAUNCHED NANO THE CHEAPEST CAR

WHILE FOREIGNERS FIND OUR DIVERSITY AS PECULIAR
BUT WE ARE PROUD BECAUSE WE ARE SECULAR

I AM STILL HOPEFUL THAT ONE DAY MY GREAT NATION
WILL BE SUCCESSFUL IN ACHIEVING ECONOMIC DOMINATION