Indian Drama

Dr. Suryaraju Mattimalla

They write beautiful words about Africa,
but it is only a show, a fake game.
They weep on paper for the old crimes,
but their real life is not the same.

Rabindranath Tagore wrote about the African chains,
he screamed against the white man's white lie.
But he married Mrinalini Devi from his own space,
and kept his family bloodline high.

Sarojini Naidu spoke to the crowds in South Africa,
she called for freedom and a global brother.
But when the politics and speeches were done,
she married Dr. Muthyala Govindarajulu Naidu, none other.

Abhay K. travels and writes his clean poems,
praising the soil and the African trees.
But he shares his real life with Ekaterina, his wife,
no African partner will ever share his keys.

Agnes Sam lived close to the Apartheid pain,
and wrote of the suffering under the sun.
But she stayed within her South Asian circle,
and did not choose an African one.

Tejaswini Niranjana claims “Africa in Me,”
using the culture to build up her name.
But she returns to Ashish Rajadhyaksha at home,
keeping her caste and her bloodline the same.

They look like heroes with a progressive mask,
but their love stays locked inside their own race.
They will bleed for the struggle in a book,
but they will never kiss an African face.

They preach about justice on a library shelf,
but police their own doors from a different race.
They hide their old rules of pure and impure,
while wearing a hollow, progressive face.

This is the great Indian drama of the pen,
where the words and the life do not meet.
They love the continent in their stanzas,
but they leave the actual people on the street.

Copyright @ Suryaraju Mattimalla 2026
Biography: Dr. Suryaraju Mattimalla is a renowned Indian poet based in Germany, a prolific human rights writer, a vegan, a refugee, a truth-seeker, and a free-speech advocate. Born into the Madiga (Untouchable Caste)-Yadav Christian family, which has historically faced caste-based and untouchability-based genocide in India, he writes poetry addressing Dalit genocide, Dalit pogroms, atrocities against untouchable castes, caste discrimination, human rights, and social justice. He has written and published hundreds of poems in the United States, Europe, Israel, France, India, Nagalim, Ghana, Somaliland, and the Federal Republic of West Papua. He has also published academic papers in prestigious academic journals and newspapers, including The Age of Human Rights Journal, Peace Chronicles, and Israel National News, Arutz Sheva. His literary works are catalogued in public libraries in the United States of America and Germany. The French-based humanitarian organization Salam has translated his poetry from English into French and published it, and the Federal Republic of West Papua-based newspaper Suara Papua has translated his English poem into Bahasa and published it in its newspaper. Through his writing, Mattimalla seeks to challenge caste/religious/ethnocentric oppression/extremism, defend human dignity, and give a voice to marginalized communities. He lives with his Ethiopian wife, Cartoonist Her Royal Highness Princess Selamawit Hailu Bezabih, and their three children: Saviour Suryaraju Mattimalla, the late Stanford Suryaraju Mattimalla, and Strathfield or Skylar Suryaraju Mattimalla. Her Royal Highness Princess Selamawit Hailu Bezabih is the great-granddaughter of His Royal Highness Emperor Yohannes IV and the immediate granddaughter of His Excellency Dejazmach Negusse Bezabih, the leader of the 1943 Woyane Rebellion. His first child was killed by Hindus in the name of honor in India in 2010, and his second son, Stanford Suryaraju Mattimalla, died following forced vaccination administered by a neo-Nazi German gynecologist on June 28, 2023, in Regensburg, Germany.