What are you?

Of what colour are you?

And of what race?

What religion do you follow,

If you at all do so?

Of what tongue are you?

And belong to which caste?

And if you opine about things,

Which is your school of thought?

How much fortune

Have you to your name?

What is your status in society,

Your lineage, your fame?

What are your gotra,

Your kula?

Do you understand it when I say,

mala and tula?

Where have you come from?

And where do you want to be?

Answer only the last question of mine.

The rest should and shall

Be flushed out of my memory.

For you are what you are.

You are, what you want to be.