Usko koi kya kahe

jo par dar sheesh jhukae?

jisne na seekhi maa kee boli

usne sheeksha kya paee?

Hindi dekhtee reh gaee

apne ansoon rok

"mere bachay kahan gaye"

poochay uska kokh

har koee par bhaasha batiyae

jaanay isay na koyee

ma baithee hai nayan bichaye

jaane kabse nahi soyee

 

Hindi laments having lost her children to alien tongues

What education can one who can't speak his/her mother tongue

claim to have?

"where are my children now" ask her womb

She, the mother, sits waiting, sleepless since ages