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Friday, July 16, 2010

It Happens Only in India !

I happen to have a very unfortunate habit, I write on topics after they have faded away from the headlines. As usual I am starting with a disclaimer: though I am writing on the Bhopal Gas Incident but have tried to refrain from writing what has already been written, and secondly the ideas expressed through this Blog are not entirely my own, they are slightly abridged but i am quite rest assured that there would be no accusation of plagiarism here :)

there is a famous adage that says " A society of sheep gets in time a Government of wolves" How astute does it sound in today's context ! Three  facets emerge from the Union carbide Tragedy : the role of the Legislature, Executive and the Judiciary. I have spent the entire Primary School and the Middle School learning how they co ordinate to run the country. for the first time I discerned that they co ordinate, to run the country NO ! For this particular incident, they were in complete sync with each other, all three lacked sensitivity, they all lacked allegiance to their duty, honesty and resolve, they just didn't feel the need for it, they are not accountable to this country or its people.
The Information Media provided a platform to awaken and instigate the "civil " society, and what came out was a brazen display of swindling, infidelity and treachery. All efforts were made to defer the the fingers pointing to the obvious miscreant. By doing so they are only demonstrating their adherence to the ruling lady and her family. The kind of arguments that have come in support are incongruous, outlandish and repugnant all at the same time.
Lets go through them for a good laugh and my apologies if you are disgusted simultaneously !
Arun Nehru : Rajiv Gandhi cannot be involved, his expression at the press conference didn't look like those of a guilty man ! Incredulous !!!
Another Politician: Rajiv Gandhi was barely in power for two months when the aforesaid incident happened, he didn't know much about the country, he was guided by others on the incident.
Mr. Dhavan, the loyalist says : That Mr. P C Alexander at the PMO  was responsible as he was antagonized for not being made the president.

What gives me some food for thought here is that Government of India has rendered Union carbide Inculpable, here we are assuming that someone did that without consulting the then foreign Minister or the Prime Minister, well iff thats true " It Happens only in India".

Now coming to the then Chief Minister Arjun Singh.: his silence to this incident is of significance, here the comment of the Finance Minister is noteable: to prevent the situation from becoming bad to worse Waren Anderson was allowed to leave the State. One wonders which situation is being referred to here: Country's/Anderson's/or Arjun Singh's.

Well this begs the question why are we trying Kasab here, he should have also been sent to Pakistan for a trial.

to be continued.......

1 comment:

  1. Very strongly written...would love to read the promised continuation.

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