Dedicated to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: By Ayan Adak e-mail: [email protected] Poem - Meeting Netaji Ayan If I could meet you today, From behind the curtain sheer, What would you say? The Gumnaami voice may speak, Would you be proud? Would you be pleased? We need to fulfill our own part Or would you say nothing – in sheer dismay Before we answers seek Would you still say, this fight Matters not what had happened then, Was worth every soul that cried, That time has long since gone, Eight decades since, our growth has earned What matters is where we are now – Your sacrifice some pride? Hind – azad, reborn Would you still march, if you could For, in every era, nations will rise From the edge of faraway lands? Kingdoms will also fall Would you still charge to Delhi’s gates A new Netaji needs to rise To deliver us from ignoble hands? When the nation gives a call Subhas Chandra Bose in Germany A TO Z INDIA ● MAY 2023 ● PAGE 16