Fiction: So, you want to be a leader?

When everyone around you thinks you can save the country, it becomes difficult not to believe them.

Whenever the Chasmey Poet posted his creations on Facebook, speculation brewed in Deshbhumi. The general public would applaud how the poet had stabbed the leaders with his sharp and witty words. Leaders and their loyalists would scrunch their noses in utter disgust. For a day or two, the poem overtook the political gossip in teashops and chautaris.