Raju Z Moray pens a poem on the frenzy around this so-called “Love Jihad”.
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A bachelor clad in saffron
Found it insulting and odd
That humans in his State
Were willing to defy God!
If one is born in a religion
Which has a glorious past
Why should one convert
And become an outcaste?
And it is terrible that girls
Who grew up chanting Ram
Elope with their paramours
Who convert them to Islam
He ascended the throne
And didn’t like what he saw
So he had it on his Agenda
Such conversions to outlaw
No daughter of his country
Will leave her religion for love
Conversion for marriage will be
Subject to orders from above
For all States famed as unruly
With safety records quite bad
What can be a better distraction
Than the bogey of ‘Love Jihad’?
Other control freaks shall soon
Jump in to save the Nation
And ensure that young couples
Honeymoon at a police station
The burden of proof will shift
On accused to prove it’s voluntary
The potential for gross misuse
Makes this truly very scary
Such laws will land up in courts
Where counsel shall give tuition
To Milords struggling to recall
Provisions of the Constitution
(Raju Z Moray is an advocate who practices law in the Bombay High Court when not puncturing bloated egos. He is the creator of ‘Gobble D. Gook’, his alter-ego, who figured in the ‘Court Jester’ columns of ‘The Lawyers’.)
