At Sangrampora
they picked seven sleeping men
from their homes
in the stealth of night,
seven Pandits
seventeen to seventy
from five families,
gleefully shot them dead
out in the open
before they fled.
They spared the females
and the children,
spared their lives
for the small price
of being widowed
and orphaned!
Who dares say now
that the militants
wielding the gun
don’t have a religion?