The piety of the politic pious
Is cruelty without redress.
No reason is an antidote
To its viciousness.
God is a gambit they deploy
When other sophistries fail
To quell the truth of argument,
When cunning does not avail.
Then hate assumes the energy
Of a marauding righteous boast,
And those that love scrounge for crumbs,
While devil takes the hindmost.
Badri Raina is a well-known commentator on politics, culture and society. His columns on the Znet have a global following. Raina taught English literature at the University of Delhi for over four decades and is the author of the much acclaimed Dickens and the Dialectic of Growth. He has several collections of poems and translations. His writings have appeared in nearly all major English dailies and journals in India.
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