A Virtual Procession of Scandals
Author :
John Matthew Tharakan
Blog :Indian Writer-Poet-Blogger John P Matthew on Writing and Life!
Date: 9/15/2012 2:57:00 PM
And now, ahem, Coalgate. Why call it Coalgate? Because coal fields were allocated? Can't those jaded journos find another name that could nail the coffin, such as, erm, Kholsakhol (Kholsa for coal and khol for open)? There has been a procession of scams tainting the nation and who can keep quiet when all hell is breaking loose? Has a sense of shame left us? Is there no end to this loop of corruption? Anyways, Coalgate it is. The list recent scams is endless:
Commonwealth Games (remember toilet rolls worth Rs 400?)
Adarsh (bureacrats and relatives of politicians cornering flats in a housing society meant only for former soliders)
Irrigation scam (involving billion wherein money was spent but no dams or canals were built)
The 2G spectrum scam
Why bother to rack our poor over-worked brain tottering towards senility when there is the following list of scandals on Wikipaedia.
Do the political class think that they are invincible and not answerable to anyone? We don't have the answers. Do you? We are glad the judge who adjudicated the
Aseem Trivedi case said as follows
as reported by The Times of India:
"Today you attacked a cartoonist. Tomorrow it could be a filmmaker and then a screenplay writer. We are living in a free society. Everybody has freedom of speech and expression," said a division bench of Justice Dhananjay Chandrachud and Justice Amjad Sayed.
We have full faith in the Indian judiciary and the press which time and again have come to the rescue of the nation.