Temples and schools.

 

 — On the premises of the school,

 No one fought here..

   And..for the temple site

 Blood is not lost here..

  — In calling my God great,

 Rivers of blood flowed…

      Gyan Ganga is drying up,

 Schools became deserted…

    — school still the same,

 Abandoned, broken wall…

     poor in my country,

 Temples are made of gold…

   — for religion, for money,

 Saw many protests…

 But for the sake of education,

  No one testified…

     — Donation box in school,

 Never seen full..

    And the donation box of the temple,

 Never seen empty…

  — School parent meeting,

 Abandoned by parents…

      In the temple stampede,

 But the man was trampled to death…

    — By imparting the knowledge of science,

 Guruji remained poor..

  And with the donation of ‘blind devotees’,

  The priest became very rich…

 — Actually a book called Dharma,

      never open in school..

 And without the name of religion,

     Not even a leaf is halal in the country..!

 “Not even a leaf is halal in the country…!!

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              The author

                  Ajay Tumme

                 Founding President

 Information Rights Sangharsh Committee Maharashtra State…