Where the mind is Without Fear (Reworked) (With apologies to Rabindranath Tagore)

Where the mind is Without Fear (Reworked) 

(With apologies to Rabindranath Tagore)

Where the mafia is without fear

Where the mafia is without fear and its political contacts are high.
Where a legislator’s perks are free and limitless.
Where the electorate has been broken up into tiny caste and creed fragments
By narrow-minded leaders.

Where sound bites come out from the depth of uninformed opinion.

Where boorish news anchors tirelessly strive towards higher ratings.
Where the filthy drain of religious superstition has drowned
every progressive idea in the dreary desert sand of dead habit.

Where the mind is led forward by sexist, racist and gutless celebrities
Into ever-increasing inadequacies and endless shopping sprees.
Into that nightmare of repression, my Father, my country now lies awake!!

(With apologies to Tagore)

 © Vijay S. Jodha 2013