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Mainstream, VOL LII, No 41, October 4, 2014 Empire Talks Back Monday 6 October 2014, by Badri Raina <http://www.mainstreamweekly.net/auteur84.html> *Go back a thousand years or so,* *And you will find a golden bird;* *She chirps aloft the Himalayas,* *And spreads her wing so wide* *That a nation forms from head* *To foot, and from side to side,* *Drawn with streaks of molten gold* *And rivers of golden tide. * *There the radiant Brahmin rehearses* *His uncanny yogic stroke,* *Connecting by Vedic *mantra *The earth with *swarg-lok. *Alas, but nothing he could do* *Held back the marauders;* *They rampaged down each golden* *Town, and filled their foreign coffers.* *The golden bird was wise to the time,* *And took off where things were better;* *Thus all the gold left Bharat desh,* *And settled among the latter. * *But, *yada yada dharmasya, *Comes forth a new *avatar; *And the golden bird will sure return--* *The day is not too far.* *The bugle sounded from Garden* *Square reverberates like thunder;* *Penurious Indians, spread your sheets* *For the golden rain, and wonder* *That six decades were sacrificed* *In laborious, rational thrall. * *When all one needed was to find* *Magic at mere tea stall. * -- Peace Is Doable -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
