"Before the by-elections of 2009, I travelled about 5000 KMs across Bihar. I saw the pathetic conditions of people in Bihar, I felt their pain, heard the noises of hunger and poverty. I witnessed that there is no one to look after the old people, their son had to elude from Bihar for earning livelihood. I met the helpless youths of Bihar always facing dejection,rejection and negligence. They must get out of their caste which has wrapped them around and blinded their thoughts for future. Whatever came to my mind during that long tour, I wrote them as poems with the hope that my thoughts will get duplicated and will help the Youths of Bihar in their fight for rights."-Jagdish Tytler, Incharge Bihar.

WAKE UP! YOUTH OF BIHAR!

Wake Up! Wake Up! Young Bihar! Wake Up!

Wake up from the caste mould

You have wrapped yourself in! You are sleeping

But soon, sleep will not come.

Bihar is awake and calling you

To rise and wake up.

Wake Up!

Why have you become prisoners of silence?

You, who are not known to be silent

With shackles of the past.

Why are you sleeping like the dead?

Have your dreams been also drowned?

Wake Up!

Have you forgotten your strength of the past?

The present, is calling you,

Today is your day, and soon it will be over,

I remember this: Time and tide wait for no one!

Wake Up! Wake Up!

LISTEN

Listen! I have the right to know

I am sitting idle, and I want to know

Why my hands have no work?

Why my fields are dry?

I want to know

Why my crops don't get water?

I want to know

Why my work-place remains closed?

I want to know

Why there is no power, no roads, no water?

I want to know

I am thirsty!

I want to know

Where have all the promises gone?

I want to know. I want to live!

This is the right of my children

And I have the right to know!

Why has my life no value? I have the right

To know, and I want to know.

My children are hungry

I want to know

My daughters want to know

Why have the teachers forsaken us?

My mother is dying and she too wants

Wants to know.

I have no answer and I want to know

Why no tears come when I cry?

My soul is crying! Why? I want to know

Why has God forsaken us?

I want to know!

WHAT'S HAPPENING TODAY IN BIHAR?

In every town, in every village and

In every market crossing:

There is this hush of silence

waiting for the unknown.

Why are you quiet! This quietness,

This silence is a crime!

Cast away your caste mould!

Wake Up! Wake Up!

The time has come

To shout and state

Bihar belongs to us!

Bihar belongs to us!!

Look around you, and you will hear

Your soul speaking;

Your state speaking

"O! Sleeping youth, I call on you

Come, make your future bright,

Wake Up! Your future beckons you

Your country is calling you!

Join me, Young Bihar, Wake Up! Wake Up!"

ALL FOR THE SAKE OF POWER

They divided you from the roots of Bihar

They separated you from your Mother

They weakened her and divided her

Into small bits. So that they could

Easily rule her! For power and votes!

The Mother's voice - a strong inner voice says:

I too have the right to live

And since you live in me, you must

Fight for me, my children.

If you say you are weak, then let me sleep

But, I tell you, you can never sleep

For you are the Bihar of the Present

You are my garden, you are my flowers

And in you is my hope.

Arise! Wake up! Young men

And fight the system of caste

For all my children are, and bring me

Truly, faithfully and consciously Bihar.

OPEN YOUR EYES YOUNG BIHAR!

I am searching for my roots, my children, my sons

I am searching for my people, my family

My eyes are filled with bitter tears, for

I find not my children, nor my fulfillment

I am blinded by my tears.

I want to see the full moon shine on me

And awaken my soul, because

My soul has been lost, marred and scarred.

I have to answer one day, they were my sons,

Now you are my sons, young enough to fight

For me, for us, for a better life

I am Bihar, I cry and yet I have my hopes in you:

I called on you, my sons. Wake Up!

Young sons of mine, Wake Up!

And set right the wrongs done to me!

Bihar is crying and calling you

Save me!