Wednesday, November 09, 2005

See no Evil, Hear no Evil , Speak no Evil !


Epitomised by Gandhiji through his 3 monkeys,who see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil ,this tenet stills holds good even after a good five decades post Independence. Topping the list are our beloved internal agencies,political honchos and bureaucrats , who have made it a point to follow Gandhiji's philiosophy at all costs.

The rate at which scams are being exposed today is phenomenal.(Ripley's might as well add it to their list).Well the most recent one is the Volcker Report , which suggests that the major beneficiaries in the payoffs related to the UN oil for food program include the Congress party and our Foreign Minister Mr. Natwar Singh. The list is unending, Mitrokhin archives which again had the Congress and Left parties under the scanner, the infamous Hawala scams, Bofors etc etc, the list is unending. As a matter of fact the above list only includes scams initiated in deals and arrangements with foreign entities, if we sit and count the internal scams, we have to start a new department.

But there is a certain change post 2000, most of these scams are being reported by foreign instituted panels, which as i see is pretty surprising. Is this a ploy by foreign countries to ruffle the political environment in India or its just that our agencies and a few responsible persons are following the aforementioned policy of see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil.Kudos to our daredevil news channels like AAJTAK , who have taken it on themselves to expose these scams.
In lighter vein i suggest that we outsource our scam investigation and enquiry to a department abroad.

2 comments:

Deoraj said...

Its high time something is done against scams and corruption. The mindset of politicians has to be changed. In india most of the ministers has criminal records. They don't need education or degrees to be a minister.

If phoolan devi can become a minister then what can we expect from the politicians. Crores of money will go down the drain and into the pockest of influential politicians every year.

The recent launch of numerous TV news channes is doing a good job of exposing the scams. i hope people are getting more aware now a days.

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