India’s Children
POETRY FORMAT, 22 Jul 2013
S.P. Udayakumar – TRANSCEND Media Service
Our Children
Born malnourished and underweight
Get hopeless education
Eat mid-day meals and even get killed
Suffer un- and under-employment
Become coolies and clerks
Live and die poor
Our Leaders’ Children
Born with a silver spoon in their mouths
Get world-class education
Eat sumptuous meals and live very well
Assured powerful and profitable employment
Become MLAs, MPs, Ministers, CMs and even PM
Become rich and famous and powerful
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S.P. Udayakumar, Ph.D. – Tamil Nadu, India:
* SACCER-South Asian Community Center for Education and Research (promoting life-long, life-wide and life-deep education)
* TRANSCEND Network, South Asia Convener (TSA) (For Rethinking South Asia)
* People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE)
* National Alliance of Anti-nuclear Movements (NAAM) (For a Nuclear-Free India that has No Deals, No Mines, No Reactors, No Dumps, and No Bombs).
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