Found poetry in Hindu Editor-in-Chief’s reply

You would think that it is almost impossible, but Rahul Siddharthan has managed just that — to put to metre the recent reply of Hindu Editor-in-Chief to its Readers’ Editor:

We have an arrangement with Xinhua. We
‘ve also used Western agencies and P-
T-I. The violence reported, you see,
We confirmed it all editorially.

‘Twas Tibetans done it, some hundreds of them.
The Chinese authorities, first unprepared,
Moved quickly to stop the riots and mayhem
In Lhasa and elsewhere. No effort was spared.

The violence in Lhasa, by every account,
Was done by protesters, who included monks.
No case of violence (or none that would count)
Came from the police or paramilitary bunks.

Why edit the Lama? Because he’s a splittist
And tended to justify the murderous
Riots. Other than what we published,
Letters to us were not very numerous.

Did anybody try that with the Readers’ Editor?

Tags: Found poetry