Quatrain XXIV – OF TAINT AND TEFLON

Did you know Shibu Soren’s back?

Sitting pretty on his coal stack

Strange… for he only spent months hungering in Lent

Poor Antulay took decades to swim out of sticky cement*

* Congressman A R Antulay had to step down as chief minister of Maharashtra in the early 80s, after The Indian Express exposed his role in a multi-crore cement scandal. Antulay is now a cabinet minister in the Manmohan Singh cabinet.