NORMS HAVE CHANGED
PROF. R.S. TIWARY
Norms of assessment have changed
As times have changed
Post, money and association
With the corridors of powers
Have become the ruling norms
Of your merits and deserts.
The Veda speaks of a mansion
Standing on a thousand pillars.
Today impressive edifices are built
On this trio of pillars.
Post, may be, the strongest
Of props which makes “Vrihaspati”
Of a mediocre showered
With fulsome encomiums.
Post carries a halo around
It which draws adulators
As a flame draws a crowd of “Patangas.”
Money, the darling of the Goddess,
Consort of Vishnu, Sustainer
Of the world, will take you to
The top of the ladder.
But it seems to me,
Approach to the corridors
Of power outshines money and post,
Vying with the ‘Bhagavana’.
Investing dumbness with eloquence,
Enabling the lame to climb
The snowy dizzy heights.
The glitter of power,
The orchestra of power.