Poetic criticism

       The Times of India reports on an interesting story from India, where there's a Poem row: Chief secretary cautions ADGP Sandhya, as:

Chief secretary E K BharatBhushan has told additional director-general of police B Sandhya to refrain from employing her literary skills to insult others.

       (ADGP -- additional director-general of police -- is a big-time position: as Wikipedia explains, it's: "a 3 star rank, the highest ranking police officer in Indian states and territories"; Sandhya is ADGP in Kerala.)
       As noted at manoramaonline:

According to the service norms there is no need of prior permission to publish literary works.

However, a clause for obtaining prior permission was introduced by former DGP, Jacob Punnoose during his tenure to put a cap on the trend of adopting literature as a platform by some officers to speak their mind out through the media. It is alleged that Sandhya overstepped those regulations while publishing her work.

       Hey, maybe this is one way to make poetry more popular again, too !