Come one and come all,
Join the call, join the call.
The call of Homeland – for one and all !
Join the call, join the call.
Be it the ‘satellite city’ or a ‘twin-city’,
One fails to comprehend the nitty-gritty.
Come one and come all,
Join the call, join the call.
The seventh exodus is to be put for barter?
And, the exiled community to accept that
they left behind in 1989/’90 on a platter?
Come one and come all,
Join the call, join the call.
The loot and destruction of Pandit households,
Desecration of religious places and their lords;
Forget the history, and “move on”?
Just to become, once again, a pawn ?
Come one and come all,
Join the call, join the call.
The Pandits-butchered selectively in
Sangraampora, Wondhaama, Naadimarg
And at other places across the valley,
Are watching in silence from the sky,
And badger for answers and want to cry.
Join the call, join the call.
The call of Homeland – for one and all !
Has the mindset of the ‘majority’ in
the valley changed ? And, the Pandits
been given any ‘welcome’ call ?
Come one and come all,
Join the call, join the call.
For some, the call of Homeland may be tall.
Why should the morale be allowed to fall?
Come one and come all,
Join the call, join the call.
The ‘elected’ and the ‘selected’ need to sit;
And bury their snooty attitude in the pit.
For the community they represent at all.
Come one and come all,
Join the call, join the call.
All are accountable to their ancestors,
progeny and the desecrated Gods;
To all the martyrs- infants and old, including,
Devki , Sarla Bhatt, Lassa Kaul, ‘Premi’ and Tikalal.
Come one and come all,
Join the call, join the call.
The call of Homeland – for one and all !
Join the call, join the call.
(Published in April-2012 issue of Koshur Samachar)