India of 2021 - Peri Maheshwer

 It all started with fear.. Fear that hinduism will perish. Fear that outsiders will take away our jobs and locals will be jobless. Fear that those who enjoyed supremacy will lose it. Fear that those who had control over others will lose it.. Fear that others will control us, fear that our Gods are being tortured by those who place constitution over temple laws, fear that we will be stripped off our rights to preach and follow a religion of our choice. Fear was marketed and it sold well,not only in India, but across the world. Now we have reasons good enough to be scared of..The psychological impact of the fear of Covid. 

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India of 2021 - Peri Maheshwer

Where Coronil is approved in a week

And Pfizer is kept waiting for months

Where center exports vaccines

And States import the same vaccine 

Where make shift crematoriums are opened

And existent vaccination centers getting closed.

Where beef in a tiffin box can cause riots;

And human carcasses on holy river is treated normal

Where politicians speak caste and religion 

And baba's speak politics and governance 

Where people die for want of oxygen

And governments make money on oxygen concentrators

Where people are arrested for criticising the PM

And rewarded for provoking communal strife

Where testing and transparency is punished

And lesser testing and hiding death rewarded 

Where we are the pharmacy of the world

And 150 countries are sending their pharmacies.

Where India owns the IPR for Covaxin

But holds its rights against its own people

Where at WTO, we seek patent rights waiver

And argue against a waiver in Supreme Court

Where messages were mostly Happy birthday

And now wake up to messages of RIP

Where thousands die for want of health care

And we want to spread 'positivity' from death

Where we wish to start the day with a Jai Shri Ram

And are increasingly saying Ram Naam Satya Hai

- Peri Maheshwer