October 2nd
I salute you Gandhi, Mahatma!
On your birthday, your authentic dogma:
Truthfulness, tolerance and ahimsa,
Principles that changed the nation's Naksha...!
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You moved, like Indian saints, half-naked,
Though, to serve you, each Indian soul ached;
Against immoral like mountain you stood,
Any well or ill - your ways understood...!
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Of your going cloth-less, myths many said,
Clothlessness of Indian poor, you led;
Till all have clothes to wear, I'll go cloth-less -
This principle kept you; you're not hopeless...!
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A boy, story says, told you so fondly:
I'll ask dad to stitch clothes for you; gently;
Tell him to stitch cloth for all like me, lo!
You seemed to have said, hence, I love you, so...!
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You, a wizard, understood the nation.
You knew forms and shapes of God's creation;
God's in us, we're in God, why division?
Division of love needs abolition...!
02 October 2022
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