It is you who turns a happy family into a stinking gutter
By creating an irreparable rift among brothers.

It is you, who turns siblings into warring enemies
It is you, who robs a home of all its happiness and peace.

It is you who causes the disgraceful scenario where a man consults his lawyer
About how to proceed in the case he is fighting against his own sister or brother.

It is for you that a person can not even talk to his beloved cousin sister, even when they meet face to face
As their fathers are fighting legal battles, thus turning the sweet relationship between two cousins into a mess.

When a person leaves behind you for his children, he is satisfied that he has done something for his descendents
In reality what he does is presenting them with a box full of never ending problems.

Sorry to say, but we would definitely have had a far better society
If we did not have you as a curse. Got it, Mr. Ancestral Property?

Raja Basu

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