Dear Aditya, Tomorrow is my birthday and the headlines nowadays make me glad I'm not celebrating. In UP, the police is delivering on Chief Minister Baba Yogi's threat to thoko anyone committing a crime. Boy, am I glad I'm not leading the Dandi March and breaking the law anymore.

Just see how things flip in a second. Baba Yogi is seen as a tough Hindu chief minister, helping Prime Minister Narendra Modi revive our glorious civilisation, perhaps even succeeding Modiji one day. Now his police are helping disintegrate his voters. The victim this weekend was an upper middle-class executive working for Apple, humanity's first trillion-dollar company, and a Brahmin. Brahmins are 14 per cent of UP's population. They may start thinking that Baba Yogi is nothing more than a vengeful Thakur. Dalits are seething as it is. Such are the vagaries of political fortune. What surprises me most is former CMs Mayawati and Akhilesh Yadav's silence on the killing. Perhaps it's too early to take to the streets.