Nine good men from the highest House
Of Constitutional guarantee
Have spoken in one ringing voice
That to be human is to be free.
To be free is not to be
Held captive in a card;
To be at the lordly beck and call
Of one or the other tinsel god.
To be free of course does not mean
To subvert the common good;
But it surely means that the common good
May be differingly understood.
That damage to the coomon good
May be less from common men
Than from those who lord the state
And questionable elections win.
Badri Raina