He says, I’m an ascetic.
Then molests a girl.
She says, gender equality.
Then whines over reservations.
He says, I want to change the world.
But he spits on the road.
She says, I’m not a faker.
But spends hours on photoshop.
They say, we want justice, peace.
They incite to break, maim, wage war.
We say, we hate liars.
We lie anyway. Everyday.
Did you say, we are a Democracy?
I say, a nation of hypocrites,
We are a Hypocrisy.
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True, we are such hypocrites and double standards be it on gender and so-called traditions!
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Absolutely! What’s really got me worked up is the religious intolerance and calls for waging war.
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Yeah and it really got to my head. I mean, soliders immediate families testified against war and how lives turned upside down but those idiots war calling…I mean why don’t they go on the border themselves. This religious intolerance irks me!
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Exactly. Logon ko tv dekh kar bas chugalkhori aur gyan baatna aata hai. Haqueeqat ka koi andaza nahin phir bhi backseat driving karne ki padi hai.
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Some powerful messaging coming off this one.
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Thanks girlie. Hope you’ve been well 🙂
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She says, gender equality.
Then whines over reservations.”–
You wrote well, very well. And these lines remind me of one thing today, I mean it may not be relevant, but I’ll just go ahead say it. People today say they want to equals, they want everything earned on their calibre, they don’t want poverty, they don’t to be named as low castes– and the list goes on, You might have understood what I want to say. And yet, the very ‘they’ want different reservations for schools, colleges, jobs!
Hypocrites indeed!
You make a great point here, Pradita!
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Fabulous post
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Thank you 🙂
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Wow beautifully expressed the reality
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Thank you 🙂
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💜🌷
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This is the “harsh reality” where peopled does have doubles standards… Very well expressed that in this beautiful poem…
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