Circus at the Chakravyuh

Democracy,
Kicked to the right,
then to the left,
scoring penalties for voicing opinions,
before it is thrown off the centre stage,
politics has an accidental of humour,
and a paradoxical phobia for speech,
rallies where speeches have added preservatives,
failing to cover up the leaking corruption after the dicey win,
what NOTA are you talking about?
when all of the above is indulged in booth rigging?
scapegoats slaughtered in the name of religion,
quotas reserved for violence,
even after colonialism was pushed out,
the Economist Intelligence Unit headquartered in London,
takes the honour to inform the world, the India they ruled for 200 years
has successfully carried forward
their authentic teachings
of divide and rule,
to be recognised globally as a flawed democracy.

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