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October 9 - October 16, 2017
India, if you wear a dark suit and tie, you become respectable. You may be the biggest crook, but somehow society takes you to be a gentleman.
standard expression is ‘the law will take its own course’ or ‘the guilty, when found, will be strongly punished’. The real meaning here being that the law will be engineered to be derailed, and that no one will ever be caught.
The single most important reason why our agriculture has not developed is lack of a steady, reliable power supply in our rural areas. India sadly has not, even 70 years after independence, recognized the critical importance of reliable 24-hour power supply for development. We are unable to get the basics in position, but aspire to reach the moon.
The Parliament and the assembly are ‘of the politician, by the politician and for the politician’. Why is the EC an idle spectator, when the Constitution and the law demand of it that it does its job?
‘those who work in a honey packaging factory, would surely lick their fingers from time to time’.
No Lok Pal Bill is likely to be passed for the next 40 years, if our supreme body, the Parliament, is left to finally decide the matter on its own.
