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Wake Asia Wake - Part Two - 3

(Continued from Part Two - 2) While those that lay claim, nay, boast of to the largest democratic state a bi-cameral constitution simply inherited from Westminister as much as the unifying language and the soi-disant socialist stamp transported lock stock and tablier from a Cambridge freemasonic lodge by the Nehru dynasty progenitor look the other way with thumb and index closing on nostrils when their pariah cart their faeces away and still after millennia acknowledge and uphold the Brahmin the self-proclaimed superior priesthood caste those who speak for the Godhead Brahman albeit speak with Him in the only sacred Sanskrit tongue thus to be enthroned on the highest pure-blooded pedestal Can there be an Asia the cradle of quarrelling Gods which can listen to the little voice within the voice of innocence Is there an ASIA or are there asias As there were warring Euro-nations… [ to be continued ] © T.Wignesan 1996/2001 (Written between April 7th and 20th, 1996; revised February 2001/2012 and published in The Asianists’ Asia, Vol. II, March 2001, an on-line journal [from the “original version” in the collection: longhand notes (a binding of poems), 1999] Published in T. Wignesan. Rama and Ravana at the Altar of Hanuman: on Tamils, Tamil Literature and Tamil Culture. Chennai: Institute of Asian Studies, 2006.

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