Mad Truth..... Poem by PARTHA SARATHI PAUL

A man, nearly 40, in rags with matted hair, standing near to a tea-stall at one crossroads, mumbles and grumbles to his mind…. Sometimes loud enough to be heard by the humans and dogs standing or passing by afar! At some pauses the shabby man is looking around with the bloodshot eyes and scratching his bushy beard! He just turned down the offer of a free cup of tea by one kind human. It's around 10-30 a.m. and some small humans on foot or on bicycles are heading towards the nearby high-school with their heavy bags. The man, evidently insane, calls out to each of them by no name! He then shouts, "Do try to learn something…..learn really…." Suddenly rather very frantically he pointed his index finger to all and yelled his lungs out, " You better spoil your rods but never spoil these good heads! Don`t make them poor lab rats! Don`t make them as worthy as next to unworthy! They are born as good, help them to be better at least, if not the best! "…..His feeble throat cried resounding voice. One young human walked up to him with a glass of water and tried to calm the nutty man down. He introduced himself as a tutor while handing him the glass. The mad man threw away the glass and went frenzied in a moment……. "You bunch of asses ….Your class is now just a pack of paid assistants with little authority. You follow the sheep students and their zebra parents; they follow moron schools and hell syllabus! You all are grazing in the same stupid pasture! And those at the helm of such education factories are like Minotaur with a litter of mules at their beck and call! Get hell off with yourself! " The young human came back to the stall hanging his head down. He grew darn curious to know about such a unique insane, who speaks so fluent English and above all speaks the pungent truth. The tea-stall keeper while attending on his waiting customers, answered to the query…." He is a freak. Many in India and abroad, who love English and write creative stuffs, know him well by his name! He wanted and loved to be a true teacher but…… He has gone off his mind yet not stopped speaking the naked truth in the King`s English! "In a while, the man in rags with matted hair left the place and walked ahead mumbling and grumbling to him and………… The callous road bears his feet and takes him just straight and very straight!

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