[QUICK THREAD: 2020]
1/12
JANUARY
A "peace rally" said, "goli maro,"
And a Rambhakt complied.
Then death came from China,
And the government let it slide.

2/12
FEBRUARY
Delhi said no to Rinkiya's dad,
Then saffron painted it red.
And up went a wall in Amdavad,
To hide its wretched unfed.

In came Dolaand and his girl,
For a "hi" tea with V'munda.
On menu, India's self-esteem,
And broccoli samosa.

3/12
MARCH
Tiger turned Tommy and MP orange,
As India banged its pots.
Go corona go, Tablighi Jamaat,
And the nation lost its nuts.

The world came to a grinding halt,
To wait it out and mourn;
As India starved it took the road,
On a desperate journey home.

4/12
APRIL
COVID claimed a thousand lives,
And cancer that of Pi.
Close on heels went Bobby's beau,
With not even a goodbye.

5/12
MAY
We lost land and we lost men,
To the dragon from the North.
But that's not all we also lost,
To Amphan's ruinous wrath.

6/12
JUNE
Just to spice things up a bit,
We're visited by a swarm;
Of locusts "trained by Pakistan,"
To cause us grievous harm.

We lost more men in Galwan,
And then we lost Galwan;
Then vented it all on TikTok,
And one day lost Sushant.

7/12
JULY
More lives lost to the virus and,
A car flipped on its own.
Dubey killed and "justice" served,
Assam became a flood zone.

8/12
AUGUST
A poet, a broker, an ex-prez gone,
We offered our preamble;
As a sacrifice at the Ayodhya fest,
In a vulgar saffron scramble.

9/12
SEPTEMBER
"No one tore the masjid down,"
So Advani walked free.
The Reaper took away Jaswant Singh,
And also SPB.

10/12
OCTOBER
Paswan dead and a 100k more,
And newsroom ethics too;
As channels fudged their TRPs,
And doctored every view.

11/12
NOVEMBER
The whale belch of Republic spent,
A whiney week in jail;
For driving someone to suicide,
The irony of the tale!

Bihar did what Bihar always does,
And saffronized its face;
While Bisht being Bisht made "love jihad,"
A punishable offence.

12/12
DECEMBER
While COVID nears two million dead,
A vaccine's finally here;
And as the world prepares to heal,
Here's to a better year!