Sistership Poems | Examples

Hindu Anarchy Coming To India: Canto Ii- Two States Begin Fighting

Which is the easiest way to make two
Indian states to fight?
One is to throw power, language, water-
Issues on their face.

So you’ll have got two Dravid states
Fighting eternally,
O’er slight and petite things for decades
Meaningless, mundane,

So that your Aryan Empire in the
North will have its way
Of flourishing and bringing in caste and
Sect-bred troops set free.

Not one but multiple such issues
Let loose on the south
On the twin sister-states of Tamil Nadu
And Kerala have worn

Out sistership, brotherhood and good-
Will among these two
Peoples, and eroded their history
Of a common past.

Mullapperiyar Dam Water Issue,
Imposing Hindi,
And Koodankülam Atomic Power
Plants are but a few,

Devised by central government to
Keep them warring on
And smoth’ring each other instead of
Pooling their resources.

We will examine each and weigh how
Hampered they progress,
Before we’re onto the treachery of the
Telengana State.

(Written and first published on: 08 December 2020)

Can also be read in full here: https://sahyadribooks-remesh.blogspot.com/2020/12/224-hindu-anarchy-coming-to-india.html