The poor girl-child of India
Describe and delineate I,
She taking stale food
And the left-overs
Even after feeding her small brother.

Half-fed and half-clothed,
In a loose and torn frock
Smiles she
A country girl,
Quite neglected and ignored
In patriarchal homes.

Bijay Kant Dubey

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