Quatrain XX -- QURBANI QURBANI QURBANI

Republic Day… aah it’s that time of the year again

When India reminds you of sacrifice, heroic and pain

Most times, the Delhi police also adds to the kitty of patriotic odds

By ‘encountering’* a dreaded ‘militant’; probably some poor over-dressed sod

* Encounter is slang for a shoot-out executed by a police outfit. The last decade has seen a host of fake encounters, where police officers gunned down innocents to boost their kill-tally or to inject a false sense of security. ‘Encountering’ is a word hastily put together for the phrase ‘kill in an encounter’.