! Gandhi - Experiment With Truth Poem by Rema Prasanaa

! Gandhi - Experiment With Truth

Rating: 3.3


Dandi....
Boiling sea water, lumps of salt
salt of freedom,
flavor of decades

Freedom
sixty years plus... aged and tired
free not in mind
incredible

Gandhi
Do you know?

Yes.. Yes..Yes..!

Gandhi my father
Munnabhai
Richard Attenborough’s Gandhi....

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Who?
Mahatma Gandhi father of the Nation
Mohandas.... Gandhi.. who?

Gandhi...
half naked fakir in loin drape
struggle, salt
non cooperation
non violence
Yerwada Jail,
division, bloodshed
midnight’s freedom
fruit – bitter sweet

At the end
a fanatic
shot and killed Gandhi
Hey Ram, a prayer...

Experiment with truth- bitter?

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Tsira Goge 18 July 2008

Experiment with truth- bitter ........................................... The truth is bitter but is fine write... 10.... Thanks for sharing... Best wishes, Tsira

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Vidyadhar Durgekar 19 July 2008

Bitter..........but for those who experiment have different taste bud It is sweet for them.for materialistic it is bitter.good reminder to those who have forgotten whatis truth..good write

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Mamta Agarwal 19 July 2008

those who take the path less travelled, have strength of their convictions. Gandhi's experiments with truth lead to his death, but i guess he had no regrets. people on a mission do not care about consequences. Rema good reminder of his life and travails. Mamta

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Emancipation Planz 19 July 2008

Rema, I love your write.. Gandhi gave and as so will expontentially grow for decades more.. ideologies and hope for truth... experimental or otherwise - it is a leading pathway.. aroha Deana xx

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Abha Sharma 19 July 2008

End is inevitable, sweetness is hackneyed, those who taste bitter stand away from crowd, here the experiment though bitter is paradoxically sweet…thought provoking piece …. Abha

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Ranjit Ravindran 17 October 2009

Gandhiji and you selected this title very carefully....Not at all misleading... Touching composition.

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Ashraful Musaddeq 06 October 2008

A moving composition on Gandhi. Love it.

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Ivan Donn Carswell 30 July 2008

If ever a person was worth his 'salt' it was Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. His belief in non-violence and truth whilst living a modest and self-sufficient life must be a worthy beacon to all. Indeed a fitting tribute to a great man. Rgds, Ivan

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Sivan P.G Menon 27 July 2008

rema... atimely intervention! ! I am dejected..frustrated..seing happpening s in Bangaluru..karnavati ...... the stealth of human flesh is yet to be blown away.. in Bangaluru...& Karnavati... (Ahmedabad- Gujarat) a place sanctified by HIS touch... regret dear Sabarmati... we have been experimenting with PEACE for last sixty... we are clueless..... topical...& thought provoking... sivan..

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Indira Babbellapati 24 July 2008

truth is bitter n the experiments naturally are more bitter...doesn't 'my experiments...' reveal that?

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