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Does a nation have a conscience?
In the land of Rama,
Ravana rules,
In a land where goddesses,
Are worshiped,
Where is Kali?
The slayer of demons,
Where is Rama the protector?
Ravana of the yore,
With ten heads and twenty arms,
As he bore Sita away,
Sita’s cries was heard by Jatayu,
No one heard you,
The mob- the modern Ravana,
With hundred heads and two hundred arms,
Bore you away too,
Your cry went unheard,
Fields wept,
Nature screamed,
Clouds covered the sun,
To shut the shame,
Your blood shall reverberate,
Into thousand voices,
Vultures pick on the dead,
In the blood soaked field,
Fear not-my daughter,
Your blood,
Shall fertilize the field,
And sprout a hundred Kali’s,
And swords shall bloom,
And slay the perpetrators,
You shall live to retell,
That Rama did not save Sita then,
And hence Rama this day,
Could not save you from the mob,
When Draupadi was disrobed,
Her husbands were mute,
Krishna’s grace saved her honour,
India needs a Krishna,
Who is the protector?
Who is the abductor?
Where is dharma?
In that instant,
India died a thousand deaths.
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