🥀🍁 New Anthem of India 🍁🥀

(With apologies to the soul of Iqbal)

India is better than the entire world,

But our garden is now being desolated.

Even while living in our homeland, we have become strangers,

They now search for our trace even in our food.

Mountains of deceit now stand in every direction,

All the ministers are liars, and so is our ruler.

Only hatred is being nurtured now in our country,

They have turned our garden of paradise into a hell.

O water of the River Ganges! Now people are saying,

That our caravan had never landed here.

Taking the name of religion, they keep malice in their hearts,

How much our India has changed!

Inflation, corruption, lynching, and riots all the time,

In all of these, our India is leading.

Disgrace and humiliation are happening in every direction,

The current era has become our enemy.

O Iqbal! What can we possibly tell you now?

Our hidden pain has now become public knowledge.

(✍️: Abdul Ghaffar Zahid, Banaras)