विनाशाय च दुष्कृताम्

Narakasura became evil, in association with another asura named baaNa. Drunk with power, as he knew himself to be unrivalled in prowess, he brought all the kingdoms on earth under his control .. All the devas, led by Indra went to Vishnu, to ask him to deliver them from Narakasura. Vishnu them that he will attend to this matter, when he will be incarnated as Krishna .. Narakasura launched his great weapon, sataghini (a thunderbolt) on Krishna. However, it made no impact whatsoever on Krishna. At last, when Narakasura tried to kill the Lord with a trident, Krishna beheaded him with his Sudarshana Chakra (discus) .. This day is celebrated as 'Naraka Chaturdashi' - the first day of Diwali. (Source:Wiki)

This year Diwali came about one-and-a-half-month earlier.
Y. Samuel Rajshekhara Reddy became evil, in association with other evangelists. Drunk with power, and unconditional support from Sonia-amma, he tried to bring all the kingdom of the seven-sacred-hills under his control. He even dared to take the religious conversions to the holiest of the holy hindu shrines - Tirupati. All the Hindus of Andhra, led by Pejawara-Shri and other saints, went to Vishnu. Vishnu promised them that he will attend to this matter. YSR had tried to attack the Vishnu on the hills, the great lord ended his story by smashing his helicopter against another hill.

When I honestly expressed my feelings on the ysr news, one of my friends commented that it is not our tradition to talk ill of the dead. I just wanted to state that this is definitely true with respect to political enemies and all, but on killing a demon, we have always celebrated festivals - be it Diwali (narakasura-krishna) or Dasara (ravana-rama or mahishasura-durga). Our Gods are merely fulfilling their promise they made in Geeta - "my job is threefold" : (1) परित्राणाय साधूनाम् - to save the good people (2) विनाशाय च दुष्कृताम् - to eliminate the bad people (3) धर्मंसंस्थापनार्थाय- to establish the dharma !!