I laughed aloud at the Headlines <br />of Kumutham-journal, a Tamil weekly <br />in this sunny morn for the first time in life. <br />How prophetic the lines are! <br />“ Every caste has a party <br />and every lane has a rowdy”. <br />The right estimate of Indian Politics! <br /> <br />The hooligans give the instant verdict <br />of cruel death to innocent people <br />by chopping off their hands, legs and heads. <br />Girls sent to schools and colleges <br />are kidnapped, raped, killed and the bodies <br />are hurled into bushes or deep wells. <br />The plumbers, electricians, drivers and students <br />slit the throat of old ladies in Taliban style <br />and decamp with gold, silver and cash. <br />Children are kidnapped to demand hefty ransoms. <br />Those who do farming work in remote places <br />are killed and the valuables of the women are snatched. <br /> <br />When the cops have the nerve to catch the criminals <br />the leaders of some caste or religion cry hoarse <br />as their innocent kin are hunted down. <br />When the courts give death penalty after five years, <br />some leaders of regional and national parties <br />quote U.N.O’s strictures against death-sentence. <br />All these leaders wouldn’t speak a word <br />if their own wives and sons and daughters are killed. <br />All of them have black-cat security in this free land. <br /> <br />A criminal who repeats a deadly crime <br />should have any right to live? <br />A convict should contest in polls again? <br />Is there scarcity for fit people to get elected? <br />When the harmless people get butchered, <br />whom to protect, do we have governments? <br />If they have guts to maintain law and order, <br />they should continue to sit on the throne or else <br />run out of the Fort to sit in penance in caves. <br />The legal experts must make the punishment severe <br />to keep these scoundrels and wild animals in fear.<br /><br />rajendran muthiah<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-headlines-of-kumutham/
