October 2nd

I salute you Gandhi, Mahatma! On your birthday, your authentic dogma: Truthfulness, tolerance and ahimsa, Principles that changed the nation's Naksha...! ===== === 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...! ===== === 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...! ===== === 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...! ===== === 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