Mother India

Mother India am I.

Civilization of Ages have I.

The Seventh-Largest by area,

And the second-largest by population,

And the most populous democracy, in the world, am I.

My children speak a thousand tongues; a vibrant country am I.

The world could count and the computer worked

With our Number System and the Zero switch;

Trigonometry, Calculus, Algebra, and Pi;

Yoga, Chess, and Martial Arts;

Ruler, shampoo, and such sorts;

And surgeries like cataract, my children did invent.

Now they export software across the seas,

Send satellites on own rockets, at ease.

Only, next to China, and ofcourse, the US,

The world’s largest army is mine!

The prizes of the world did my people win,

Besides, twice for peace and physics;

And literature and economics

The Nobel did they receive, and many more to come….

All the religions of the world;

And traces of all races, in me, are found;

The climates, cultures, yet, as well.

If people want to see the world,

Let them come see me,

For I am the epitome of the world!

However, my heart aches, for there are in me

The poor, the sick, the sore oppressed,

Child labourers, orphans, and destitutes

Dear children take care of them too.