It was waiting to happen. Cutua, a pejorative term used by Hindu communalists for Muslims, was used in the Indian Parliament recently by Ramesh Bidhuri while addressing Danish Ali. Cutua—which literally translates as the cut one or the circumcised one—has been a communal street slang and a part of the arsenal of communal mobs who commonly chant—Jab Cutue Kaate Jayenge, Ram-Ram Chillayenge (when Cutuas will get cut they scream Ram’s name). Malviya’s poem was written in response to Bidhuri’s hate speech and uses references to Hindu mythology, Parshuram’s mother, Shoorpanakha, Shambuk and Eklavya to reconfigure the violence. Like what American army officer Roddie Edmonds told POW German officers after the Second World War—we are all Jews now—Malviya takes a particular term of abuse and turns it into a word of resistance and liberation for the oppressed. We are all Cutuas now.