One of the thing that was held against the affluenct in India pre independence days were that they were totally subservient to the British.
The situation has not changed much. Today, our media crawls when asked to bend by Congress party. Their ability to conveniently give a positive twist to anything Congress does is amazing and disgusting.
Let us just take the last few days for example,
The petrol and diesel prices were hiked yesterday, just 5 days before the Budget is to be presented to the parliament and just a day before partliament is to convene for the Budget Session. With annual budget around the corner, it was blatantly unethical and totally improper to announce such a hefty hike. First, there is no imminent need for this. Oil prices are still around $ 70 and has been so for the past 2 months. I laughed when one media said, the 'small price hike'!!!. Rs 4 out of Rs 40 is 10%, which is not 'small' by any means. No peep about the unethicality of the whole issue. The Government should have announced this in the budget, but then that will take the sheen off the budget, wont it? What a fraud?
Much hue and cry has been made of Indian Students getting beaten up in Australia. A report yesterday mentions that during the past one year more than 50% of the 54 students died in Australia were Indians. These students are not Indians who have got Australian citizenship, but Indian nationals with Indian Passport. One would have expected one of our external ministers or the minister for Overseas Indians to travel to Australia and sort this out. No way! Or one would have expected the Government to read the riot act to the Australians. No way! It doesnt matter to the Government if a few Indians are bashed up overseas. What a shame! No other self respecting country will behave like this. They would have sent a fact finding team, taken up the matter with the Australian Government, put pressure on them on some other front, issued a travel advisory against visiting Australia and would have banned immigration to Australia till situation cleared. This would have hurt Australians badly as Education is one of their major foreign exchange earners and Indians constitute a good 30% of the overseas students. The media which has been overboard about these attacks is very very silent on the action taken by the government (or rather the action NOT taken by the Government).
Couple of days back a Union Minister was accused of influencing a HC judge to grant bail to two accused. See how muted the response is from the media on such a grave issue. And finally, yesterday a Congress MP in Andhra Pradesh slapped a Bank Manager in front of TV cameras and the issue is being buried under the Carpet.
Compare and contrast this with the importance given to non issues pertaining to BSP, BJP, CPM and you know what I am talking about.
