Quatrain XXI -- 'HAWK'ING HATRED

Sometime back, the Hawk* broke his beak

And with calculated innocence, came the Jinnah speak

Now harmless, the mob stoned the Hawk till he wreathed in pain

He lives yet, but limps, totters and only pecks at scattered grain

* This quatrain is an obituary to the original hawk of Indian politics L K Advani, who lived his early years by the doctrine of viciousness. As age caught up, he switched to the art of guile. And how he failed. Will be forever known to us as the inventor of the term 'pseudo secularism'. In his latter days, he literally lived up to his invention.