Journalist and author of “A View from the Raisina Hill” PP Balachandran put it succinctly on his Facebook page, “Speak no evil of the dead. So I kept quiet while watching the news of J&K Chief Minister Mufti Mohd Sayeed’s death yesterday. What got me was the syrupy eulogy to someone who was nothing more than a run-of-the mill, crafty, sectarian politician who used the Kashmiriyat identity politics as and when it suited him. He was called outragous things like a statesman, a thinker etc. etc. Mufti a statesman!!!!??? A thinker!!!??? Give yourself a break guys. Mufti in the same league as Gandhi, Mandela and Lincoln to be called a statesman? Mufti a thinker as in a Socratese or Confusious or Voltaire? I expected Mufti to jump out of the coffin and shout: Bastards, give me the right obit, will you?”