Senior members of the police have justified the ‘random shooting in the air’ during last week’s CST riots — “Our men were not firing randomly. It is just that their aim is bad. We are planning to hire bronze medallist Gagan Narang as our coach. Just watch us in 2016.”

Like most tragedies in our country, this riot too would have passed as just another event in our history, except that two deranged rioters went and destroyed the Amar Jawan Memorial. In our country, abetting arson isn’t as serious a crime as messing with patriotism. And so the hunt for the two accused began.