PRATAP KOTAMRAJU

(19??-- ) Symbolic head of the International Corps of Diploets
(diplomatic poets serving as ambassadors of peace)
sponsored by Meeting the Muse Chapter of Missouri State Poetry Society
Was blessed by Mahatma Gandhi during infancy in India.
Student activist in Gandhi's non-violent, peaceful resistance of British rule
Ambassador for India to Tunisia and Indonesia Journalist, writer, public speaker
Honorary Member of Meeting the Muse Chapter of MSPS (b.) India (l.) Springfield, Missouri

SHANTI SHALOM

(Based on philosophy offered by Pratap)

The spirit (soul)
within me
greets the spirit (soul)
within you.
Shanti.
Shanti Shalom.

A diplomat does not preach.
A diplomat does not try to convert.
A diplomat accepts others as they are.

Shanti.
Shanti Shalom.

Look at me now.
I AM
a disappearing
kind of man.

Shanti.
Shanti Shalom.

Peace.


Pratap Kotamraju
Springfield, MO