Four-hundred-and-forty-legged hope
Four-hundred-and -forty-legged hope (with original Marathi poem) Govind Vinayak 'Vindā' Karandikar (1918 - 2010) English translation: Mukta 'Asraar' Dear friend, My hope stands not on two, but on four-hundred-and-forty feet. I'll tell you how: Socrates was tried by an Athenian court for inciting the youth and sentenced to death by poisoning (ask Plato how he downed that cup - let's not digress here) but that wasn't it. Two hundred-and-twenty out of the five hundred jurors had in fact found him not guilty. (I wish to meet them sometimes, but let's not digress here) Thus, dear friend, my hope stands not on Socrates' two feet, but on the four-hundred-and-forty feet of those two-hundred-and-twenty jurors. पाया विंदा करंदीकर मित्रा, माझा आशावाद दोन पायांवर उभा नसून चारशे चाळीस पायांवर उभा आहे. कसा ते ऐक: तरुणांना भडकाविल्याच्या आरोपाखाली सोक्रेटिसवर अथेन्सच्या न्यायालयात खटला झाला आणि त्याला विषाचा प्याला घेण्याची शिक्षा झाली...