Triveni Journal
1927 | 11,233,916 words
Triveni is a journal dedicated to ancient Indian culture, history, philosophy, art, spirituality, music and all sorts of literature. Triveni was founded at Madras in 1927 and since that time various authors have donated their creativity in the form of articles, covering many aspects of public life....
JUST A BARDtc "JUST A BARD"
Urchins as well as good-for-nothings
listened to him attentively
The clumsy man in agitation
talked in fear rapidly �-
The eastern quarter of the town
had no water to drink
The elite paid to build rockets
to explore the space and reach the moon.
The pious chairman distributed
one grain of wheat every night
For hungry youth in western slums
who failed to get work-n-wages
A hundred people, dark-complexioned,
died in flood, but nothing happened
The town did mourn the next week
when eight fair-skinned got swept away
The town-hall held a grand function
to distribute among the innocent folk
proud posters with a screaming phrase
‘hatred, Religion, (and) murder’�-
Whence has this stranger come?
Do such things happen here?
People asked, and laughed at him:
‘A mad man is he, or just a bard�.