Down with dog position

Locust cobra standing tree

I am the motherland expanding

Pregnancy unplanned in the 21st century

More than our people our culture our country

I'm alchemy

Rhythm in raga rhythm and melody

Conceived when shivabreathe the kiss

Which died on the lips of his bride

Parvati desi blonde black

I'm every grain of rice in your basmati

Every spice in your garam masala

I'm the turmeric stain on your gandmother's hands

I'm ena mina dika dai dama nika

Red commentary flames on your penial gland

I'm the garland beads slipping through her fingers

Like display seed of sands through an hour glass

I'm the jigsaw made from the

Shattered fragments of the past

Pieced together in a way that works for us

A billion strong and uprising

And it's impossible to ignore us

The interwoven of bengali

Gujarati kannada marathi hindi kashmiri

Malayalam nepali punjabi sindhi telugu tamil urdu

Ginger chilly and garlic brahmin kshatriya dalit

Touch me for i'm no longer untouchable

Capable practically inescapable

No longer unaccountable

I'm an accountant

I programme your it

I'm the tea latte ice tea

That the tea maker stares at peanuts

He sighs on the rise of the middle class

Whispering their upwardly mobile mantra

Thank god almighty i am free at last

I sing you are mother hindustan

As i smoke beedies chew

Pageand watch bollywood dvd's

Starring akshay kumar and shahrukh khan

Remixing pranayama by whispering my mantra

I am a disco dancer under my breathe

Profound primitive and superstitious

Spread of canada to australia trinidad to mauritius

I will always be india

The impoverished child that bangs

The window of your ambassador car

The old man who instead of clapping his hands

Simply says oh wow

I am saraswati whose veena was later

Remixed into the shape of a sitar

Just like i am in padme of the tabla drum

Became the ta teri kirat kirat ta ta to turn tables and a mixer

I am the rickshawman

I have the white tiger a survivor

Rising up in the drive to progress

I am the distressed heart of delhi calcutta's cloaked streets

Bombay's blocked arteries

And an accumulation of stress yes

I am india

In the land of ustad ali akbar khan

And who wants to be a millionaire

Krishnamurthy vivekananda tagore and arundhati

And pot bellied elephant headed superhero ganapati

Om shanti

I am the monk's saffron rope

I am the scent of the cinnamon cardamom clove

I am the air

Thick with the rain and the funk of the monsoon

I am the silver moon that kurta pajama wears for hair clip

I am the unsanctioned love

Marriage between bharatanatyam and backflip

Converse trainers under kurta pajama and salwar kameez

I am the thunder of the storms on

The horizon weeping the solidified tears of rudraksh beads

I am alchemy