Hi Friends,

Even as I launch this today ( my 80th Birthday ), I realize that there is yet so much to say and do. There is just no time to look back, no time to wonder,"Will anyone read these pages?"

With regards,
Hemen Parekh
27 June 2013

Now as I approach my 90th birthday ( 27 June 2023 ) , I invite you to visit my Digital Avatar ( www.hemenparekh.ai ) – and continue chatting with me , even when I am no more here physically

Tuesday 1 January 2013

A TRIBUTE



Dear Friend

Here is my tribute to the Delhi rape victim

Express your anguish , add your own verse ( and your name ) , at the end and forward to your “ Contact Group “ ( available in Outlook / GMail / Yahoo Mail etc )

Then request them to do likewise

Let , a million version of this tribute echo in the hearts on all Indians
  

But  Democracy  is  a  good  thing !

The Girl is dead
India’s darling daughter is dead
But democracy is alive
And democracy is a good thing.

Every year
21,000 mothers , daughters , sisters get raped,
Countless others burnt to dowry-death;
Poor starve or, shelter less
Freeze on footpath;
On each rainless day
A hundred farmers commit suicide
But democracy is alive
And democracy is a good thing

Each year , 1,600,000 children die of malnutrition
Even as millions of tons of grain
Rot under sun and rain
Thousands die of tobacco smoke
But democracy is alive
And democracy is a good thing

Hundreds die in floods
Few thousands die crossing railway tracks
A million children die working for 18 hours
In dark / dungeon slave factories
Living on a slice of bread and glass of dirty water
But democracy is alive
And democracy is a good thing

Where else but in a democracy
Do people have a right
To vote / select their own Masters
Who , for the next five years, will

Ø  Silence them

Ø  Torture them

Ø  Maim them

Ø  Loot them

Ø  Rape them

Ø  Murder them

Cry, Beloved Motherland

And don’t stop crying

Till your tears sweep these tyrants into the Arabian Sea !


Hemen Parekh