India Stories
by Mitali Perkins
You want your ancient India,
Your other India,
Your monkey-jewel-barefoot India.
Draped in a tired colonial nostalgia,
Veiled and demure, perched on elephants.
But they are a dancing India,
A changing India,
A buying-selling-reading India.
Sorry. Can't have your bleeding India.
by Mitali Perkins
You want your ancient India,
Your other India,
Your monkey-jewel-barefoot India.
Draped in a tired colonial nostalgia,
Veiled and demure, perched on elephants.
But they are a dancing India,
A changing India,
A buying-selling-reading India.
Sorry. Can't have your bleeding India.