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Nice one-
Santosh
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Absolutely true. The satire is devastating. The proverb should now be like this : He is a politician but honest.....
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Thanks all for reading, reviewing and commenting.
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It's a good satire- politicians let everyone including children lie for them- a corrupt breed!
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10 October, 2012
TO: Mr. Rajender Krishan
There was a knock at the main door. Somebody was looking for the head of the family. The man asked his son to go and tell the visitor, "Go and tell the man that father is not at home". The boy rushed to the main door and told the visitor, "Father asked me to tell you that father is not at home".
This is naivete.
Rajat Das Gupta.
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very timely
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Good One. Whether Politics or diplomacy, we cannot part it
PGR
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Well! This is good..and emphasizes VALUE of moment to moment alertness..and composure...
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I have no idea how a poetry is composed. But I know the satires well. What sounded like an ideal grandparent turned the tables to throw the blame on the politicians was indeed a satire that hit very well.
Keep it up bhai, I think you are giving a new direction to satirical poetry!
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I am not an avid reader of english poems . But enjoy reading kannada poems. For the first time I relished this simple english poem which describes politics and politicians in very simple words. Good job sir.
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While i agree honesty is the best policy, there is also a need for white lies in this crazily illogical, twisting, challenging journey of life. Often , it causes less harm than the immediate truth! I could be wrong and people are free to disagree/ argue with me, but i guess a subtle understanding of what is white lies and what is not, are the cues you should be allowing kids at home to pick up!
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Sure, the moral is made poetic. But...is it prose sentences cut into stanzas? A fable in verse!
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A good satire on today's politicians. Tha last line of the poem took me by surprise.
Prem Verma
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Beautiful!
Sums up the politics so well. Evasive, dishonest politics that is leading to distorted facts and dis-content. Well done, Rajenderji!
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HONESTY IS THE BEST KEY WHICH STRATS FROM HOME
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good..she has dared to speak the truth
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You have hit the nail on the head and more pertinently on Indian Politics. Dishonesty is the Mantra constantly on display in the shop windows and backrooms of Indian Politics.
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Raj has invited comment on what he brands 'this new form of poetry': well, at least it has punctuation and obeys grammatical rules unlike the poems, say, of e e cummings, who refered to himself as 'i'. Whatever its form the prime requirement of poetry is conveyance of something that, given the parameters of meaning it adopts, is not addled by bad sense or bad taste.
Even nonsense verse is redeemed by the understanding that it is nonsense verse; however, verse that is talking sense is addled by a nonsense phrase. This is the most common fault of poetry, and it varies in its off-putting effect as the intelligence of the reader discerns or rates as significant in the context of the whole poem.
Being who you are, a popular figure, anything structured as a poem is immediately warmly received, and a lot of warts are glossed over in the general tone of the poem. I'm sure. Thus success of a poem is also an indicator of its popular appeal on less than strictly literary grounds a critic might employ.
The form you employ is readily comprehensiblle and simple, even though verses are separated by '...' It is innocent in its affectation. But you have set out to talk sense, so sense has to be sustained, even to sustain the wit. I think your regular readers will have become fine-tuned to the quality of your wit, and so it will be a good read.
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