Ramaswami: A question many people ask is why would Narendra Modi, Amit Shah and the BJP allow violence to take place at a time when they were playing host to Donald Trump. Incidentally, the Congress government had no qualms about showcasing genocide on the streets in November 1984 even as world leaders gathered in Delhi for Indira Gandhi’s funeral but it is still worth asking why Modi et al. would they rain on their own parade. The answer is quite simple. Remember the story of the scorpion and the frog? A frog is carrying a scorpion across a river as a favour but then the scorpion bites the frog. As they both drown, the frog cries out, ‘Why did you bite me? We’re both going to die now’. And the scorpion shrugs his shoulder and says, ‘What can I do? It’s in my nature.’