POEM
There were women of substance
who broke the ceiling and brought
fame, appreciation
and glory
to their respective countries.
Besides them coming
Indira Nooyi, Christina Legarde,
Arundhati
Bhatacharya,
Chanda Kochar, Kiran Majumdar Sha,
Kiran Bedi, Medha Patkar,
Arundhati Roy, Aruna Roy
who arethe glittetring
stars of the business social activists
and writers
who broke the ceiling
and for whom
rest is something alien.
But there are skinny, illiterate,
malnourished women
who can’t even dream about growing
and going up
thanks to the indifferent
selfish and greedy leaders
across the world.
These often starve
and
suffer from their husbands
who are drunkards.
They are molested,
stalked, raped even in brought day light
and even murdered
by anti-social
elements
and they fell prey
to cholrea, diahorrea, dengue
and succumb to death
who number approximately 800 millions
across the globe.
Whenever we think
about those poor
hungry, illiterate diseased ones
we heave deep sighs.
Why should we ponder about
when our beloved
rulers
who are bent upon developing
smart cities by expropriating.
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