O! India -- My India ...

O! India-- My India
poem by Dr. Ram Sharma

Where is my India?
where are the mango orchards 
we used to play in
skyscrapers are now here,  kissing the sky
looking at us disdainfully
where are the ponds and wells?
we are quenching our thirst with bottled water
where is the dust of the fragrant earth?
where is love smeared mud?
where is the banyan tree, our eternal mate?
where is the bullock cart?
speedy modern wagons beating all
where is Chaupal?
all used to sit and share
where are the zigzag muddy ways
to cross the fields?
O! India where are you?
are you in the speedy hissing wagons
or in the long queue of impatient patients
or are you in the tons of currency
or in the loud crying of self appraisal?
O! India-- my India
where are you????