The TV centric media era and the changing values of the population has proved to be a boon for the corrupt Corporate--Politician-Bureaucrat- Media nexus. Those with vested interest know that all one has to do is make some right noises in the TV sets during the crisis for a week, and then sit tight. The public will lose interest and move on to the next 'sensational' news. People are not interested in the solutions, hardly do any follow up, don't bother to find out the root cause and don't ask for systemic changes. The political parties, who used to take up these issues in the past and keep it in limelight, are all compromised by the big businesss. The general public is apathetic and is hardly bothered about nation building and fighting injustice. The corrupt exploit this to the hilt and merrily go on with their behind the scene skulduggery.
There was much hue and cry about President Pratibha Patils financial impropriety in the Co-operative sector in Maharashtra and her husbands involvement in a murder case. This was when she was elected in 2007. Have you heard anything about it since?
Quottrochi, of the Bofors infamy, was allowed to go Scot free, his accounts defreezed and all charges dropped against him three years back. The issue has died down.
Justice Dinakaran, the land grabbing Chief Justice of Karnataka, continues with impunity even disregarding a transfer order issued by the Government. The Karnataka High Court is totally paralysed for the last few months. No one is bothered about it now.
Telecom Minister Raja, swindled thousands of crores of rupees in the auction of 2G spectrum. Is anyone talking about it now?
The IPL fiasco that resulted in Sashi Tharoor losing his post and the subsequent IT raids on various franchisees and Modi was in the news for a week. Do any one of us know or care about what action was taken by the Government on the errant franchisees who apparently have flouted all Foreign Exchange norms?
Do any of us.................................... Oh! forget about it. The list is endless.
Hence, let us not break our head over Bhopal Gas Tragedy or how Warren Anderson was spirited out of the Country by none other than the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi (it is ridiculous to even listen to Congress parties assertion that on the day of the biggest industrial tragedy in India, the American CEO, who was arrested and let on bail was flown from Bhopal to Delhi on a State Plane, and then out of the Country but the PM was totally ignorant of it. And this when not a leaf moves without the PMs consent in a dynastic party like Congress) or whether judicial system failed the people of Bhopal.
This too will pass.......................................
