Listen: A Song that Sums Up Our National Chaos

Jai Mata, Bharat Mata, Gau Mata, sabki tu gata

Har ma kasam khai baitha tu

Bas uske siwa, jise jala diya

Jiska Gulberg mein tune kiya tha khoon

Wah re deshbhakti, kya tu dhakti

Kyun desh prem mein gaaliyan tu bakti

Bata kitne prasann the Ram aur Sita

Valentine’s Day jab tune gher ke peeta

 

Fascist on the street, I’ve got a

Fascist on repeat, and they’ve been

Crawling at his feet, even as

Ehsan Jafri felt the heat

 

An old man in brown shorts with a hand to his chest

He’s got something to sell

He did what everyone knows he did

And he lived to tell

 

Bharat Mata ki jai

Le bol diya ab trishul waapas rakh de

Please bhai baksh de,

Bharatiya ko baksh de,

Gaye Angrez, baaki saste

 

Sankat mein jo gaayab tha lo aaya ab sankat dene

Jo bhagwan kuch na de paaya ab aaya sab lene

Maane saara Hindustan, bas teri zabaan

Aur jo na maane, jaye Pakistan, meri jaan

Tu ja Pakistan,

Theek tere jaise kattar bhi wahan bhare apni dukaan

Sab dhandhe, chhaape jhande

Saare dukhi jab tak barse na dande

 

Fascist with a flag,

A gun and a priest

And girls of eight just disappear

The day his goons squads reach

 

He’ll raze to the ground

All the things that stood before

And then he’ll lay a fascist egg

And throw the mask he wore

 

Jahan jahan tune laash bichhai

Woh national anthem pe khadi na ho paayi

Naha dhoke bole vikas par

Petrol ki bu kuch gayi na khaas aur

 

Poore samay jo neend mein tha

Phir uth ke hua gumbad pe khada

Junaid, ise pooch zara

Iske liye kya phir Bharat baap ya ma

Samar produces music under the name New Delhi Revival. 

Featured image credit: Reuters