ENGLISH POEM (new) WHAT TIMES HAVE COME?

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WHAT TIME HAS COME ? A POEM--AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF HINDI POEM

  by  rajee kushwaha in 

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Posted on 17 Sep 2008

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It is a translation of my Hindi Poem "KAISA HAI JAMAANA--YEH KAISE KAISE LOG?" The link is :-

http://rajee.sulekha.com/blog/post/2008/09/kaisa-hai-zamaana-what-times-have-come-a-song-in.htm

WHAT TIME HAS COME, WHAT PEOPLE IT HAILS?

What time has come, what people it hails?

Moralities,religion and integrity are on sale;

Imagine the times in the past and its people-

Who sacrificed their lives for these scruples.

Watch families of  today, where parents neglected;

Daughters are raped and one's sisters transacted!

What time has come, what people it hails?

Moralities,religion and integrity are on sale;

There is no rule and no law as money is the obsession!

Hence brothers kill brothers and seek solace in religion;

What time has come, what people it hails?

Moralities,religion and integrity are on sale;

Dumb and deaf form the Government, full of hooligans-

Where misrule abounds who  cares for the cries of citizens?

What time has come, what people it hails?

Moralities,religion and integrity are on sale;

Talks of hunger alleviation are false promises of fake administration,

How can  poverty be eradicated if we are not a disciplined nation?

What time has come, what people it hails?

Moralities,religion and integrity are on sale;

Corruption is in our veins, taking bribe is a matter of right-

So talk of moralities is useless when scandals fill our lives;

What time has come, what people it hails?

Moralities,religion and integrity are on sale;

How will this nation fight the rising clouds of terror?

No noise can awaken our leaders from deep slumber;

What time has come, what people it hails?

Moralities,religion and integrity are on sale;

What were those times when a lady with jewellery bedecked-

Embarked on a journey at night but without  a scratch returned!

What time has come, what people it hails?

Moralities,religion and integrity are on sale;

"Rajee" how will those days ever return when our big leaders--

Talk like parrots but rarely ever they are the promise-keepers;

What time has come, what people it hails?

Moralities,religion and integrity are on sale;