The Stink Goes to the Top


And now it's the coal scam. Expect the same outcome as the 2G scam: denial of any wrongdoing, no convictions, a new auction, endless delays. In other words, nothing will change.

But there is one difference about this scam: it can be laid directly at the doorstep of that “honest” person in the UPA, Manmohan Singh. Because he was in charge of the coal department for years together, including the period when these coal block allocations were made.

This either proves politics corrupts everyone, or that Manmohan was never honest to begin with or that he doesn't even have the power to run even a single ministry, let alone the country. And yet, he shamelessly insists on hanging on as the “honest” face of Sonia’s band of thieves.

Despite all these scams, will the UPA come back to power in the next election? Possibly, yes. Because India's electorate is “secular”. So the most corrupt politician is preferable to the communal administrator, even if the latter is honest. Sad. And also because the definition of that term “secular” in our citizens’ and the UPA’s allies minds has this exception clause: killing Sikhs based on their religion still qualifies you to be a secular person. Even more sad.

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  1. KumarAugust 27, 2012 at 12:15 PM

    I felt very sad reading this blog. Yes, we as a nation are in terrible shape today.

    The politicians simply ride on the unthinking masses, who cannot think for the nation or society, and what is more, they cannot even think for themselves. (This is indeed the delight of the politicians who are ever ready to whip the masses up for their own ends!) The masses will vote, based on their whims and fancies and also their ignorance. And the people who can think better and do things right have, more or less, no say our society, because their votes get completely outnumbered by the votes of the masses. For the politicians, the elite/cultured middle class is nothing beyond nuisance which they have to put up with, whenever the middle class cannot be ignored and sidelined.

    We, as a nation, seem to be sinking. More than two millenniums back, the Greek thinkers, who had a visualization of democracy unbelievably ahead of their time, felt disillusionment with democracy, when the saw mob mentality brutalizing that nation's elite and cultured ways. The same truth confronts us here in India now, and we the elite and cultured, feel totally helpless. A time has come for us to demand the opposite of what an American presidential candidate once said, "Do not ask what the nation can do for you; ask what you can do for the nation". In India, we have to raise our voice asserting, "Do not pester us with how much more we have to give the nation; we have given plenty thus far. Tell us, here and now, what the nation can give us." Actually this is patriotism in our context, not what the American said, entirely because of the deplorable political and administrative state of affairs that we are in.

    The decadence, despite looking formidable, still gives me a ray of hope for future: We can't be sinking lower and lower; we will reach the rock-bottom sooner than we may believe, and then, ascendance for a nation having better attitude and a better grade ethical caliber has to occur. Nature has not made the humans to be "spherical rats" meaning "being rats whichever way one may look at the humans"!.

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