Quatrain XXXVI -- RANG DE BASANTI

For them, it's always been so easy to kill
They've had the bullet, a uniform and will
And you've had some flesh to be seared, some blood to spill
But, yesterday* you conquered a police station, today** you torched another one.


* JEHANABAD: Several persons have died when 1,000 Naxalities on Sunday night attacked the Jehanabad police station in Bihar which is facing the last stage of polls to the state Assembly. According to reports, the police retaliated by firing hack at the Naxalites who had stormed the Jehanabad police station and the Jehanabad jail. (THE TIMES OF INDIA) http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1294090.cms

** NEW DELHI: A police station in Ghaziabad near Delhi was attacked on Monday by a mob suspecting that a person had died in police custody. After the mob attack lasting an hour, three villagers were arrested for assaulting people, including policemen, and destroying private and public property. (THE TIMES OF INDIA) http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1413040.cms