Thursday, March 29, 2012

Freedom Comments

Rating: 2.7

At times, as I watch,
it seems as though my country's body
floats down somewhere on the river.
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Jayanta Mahapatra
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Bijay Kant Dubey 13 August 2016

Freedom as a poem is George Bernard Shawing taking swerves and sides in its own stride as did it the dramatist in a radio talk entitled Freedom wherein he questions who is but a freeman and what is it freedom? As Bernard Shaw describes natural slavery and human slavery so are the things here. Jayanta Mahapatra here clutches in the notion and reverie of freedom as existent in a child's dreams in the form of desire. The meaning and opinion varies it from context to context. The hungry people may not explain it. India became free in 1947, but what have they got? What have we done for the sake of freedom? Are we still free? Is the country free from hunger, illiteracy, superstition and poverty?

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Veeraiyah Subbulakshmi 29 March 2012

Sir, I have painfully read your poem for the truth of our nation, until the last two lines. You are advised not to mess up with our religion any more in the name of secularism. Enough of slaughtering our Gods. The only factor that unites India is, the holy religion, other than this crucial factor, nothing else unites India..

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