On the midnight of August 15 1947 when Nawab Nehru was spouting unintelligible nonsense in English in Delhi, a 60-year old man quietly sat down at his desk as usual in Bangalore and began to write.
A poem. In what's today called classical Kannada. It was a poem and a song. A stava, a stuti. To Bharatavarsha & BharatavarshA. A national song. A song celebrating freedom as a festival, as a parva.
A memorable verse from it: "Bharata Mata! May you never give birth to a son or daughter who is not a warrior, may you never give birth to a son or daughter who does not serve you."
But Bharata Mata had to still suffer the curse called Nawab Nehru for 70 Years.
The poem is titled Swatantrabharata Stava. The author is Maharshi D.V. Gundappa.
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