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Dear Readers,
While going through some world famous novels and poems for my book, I came across with the following immortal poem by Late Kazi Nazrul Islam (national poet of Bangladesh).
Hope you all would like it
Barangana (Prostitute)
Who calls you a Prostitute Oh Mother?
Who spits on you?
Perhaps you were suckled by someone
as chaste as Seeta.
You may not be chaste,
yet you are one of the family
of all our mothers and sisters.
Your sons are like any of us sons,
as capable of achieving fame and honour
as any of us,
as capable of entering heaven.
The great hero Drona
was the son of Ghritachi,
A prostitute in heaven.
Khrishna-Daipayan,
Who was universally respected,
was the son of an unmarried girl.
Karna the Benevolent
Was born of a maiden.
Ganga, expelled from heaven,
was married to Shiva.
King Shantanu too
offered her his love.
Their son was the immortal Bheeshma,
to whom Krishna paid homage!
The sage Satyakama
was the illegitimate son of Jabala.
The conception of the great lover of humanity, Jesus,
remains a mystery.
None is stained with sin here,
none is an object of hatred.
Millions of beautiful lilies
blossom in the lake of lust!
Listen to this message of humanity:
After birth all humans beings
are free from all impurities.
Because once I have committed a sin,
Have I no right to retun to virtue?
Hundreds of sinful acts
Did not take away the deviness of the gods.
If Ahalya was free of sin,
if Mary was canonized,
truthfully why can't you too
be worthy of worship?
Who are the bigots
Who condescendingly label your son
as an 'illegitimate' child?
To them I simply ask these questions.
How many of the 1500 million children
of this world were born
purely out of the purpose of procreation,
and not out of lust?
How many are pure and chaste?
For whose sin do millions of sucklings
die in the cradle?
Purely of carnal urge
do men and women unite.
We are children born of that lust.
Yet how proud we are!
So listen religious leaders:
There is no difference between 'illegitimate'
and 'legitimate' children!
And if the son of an unchaste mother is 'illegitimate'
so is the son of an unchaste father.
- Kazi Nazrul Islam Traslated by Sajed Kamal
Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi 2
Bade Achhe Lagte Hain
