Tapes, Babus and Middle Men/Women: INDILEAKS

With the madam Radia tapes covering mid segment of politicians, babus and corporates are out the story of middle men comes alive again. They had been every where, to set the 'chai pani' of the government officials, and also politicians (they have 5 years of initial service extended to life time) with no retirement age. So the middle men sets the agenda for the parties and gets the tip of the work done, Is'nt it awsome to hold the hand of power hungery politician to be allotted cabinet porfolio? Now this practise happens from city level politics (for appointment as Mayor, chairmen, committee head..) to the state and national level. The middle men would do its duty to inform the 'high command' about your good intentions. High command would never be caught and not interesting to media !!

Once you are placed on the desired setup and satisfied with the middle mens work, you may choose to oblige his subsequent clients to get 'their' job done, you take some 'cut' and give some biting to your middle men (now call them agent too). As the specialisation of the agents goes from the private industries of pity contract works, to laying roads & metro lines, defense deals, to real estate, these elements would help them get the contract to supply and extract the money as loot from government exchaquer.
There are agents for pity jobs for our 'aam janta' too say getting railway ticket, ration card, passport, visa, well, tube well, building plans, voter cards, government jobs, defense jobs, private jobs (oh! I mean limited companies) on platter. They operate from a small office near paan shops to big office near the national parliament and state assemblies.

If you happen to profile them, they are semi literate (with strong family ties with bada sahaabs), literates (ties with babus and politicians) and blue eyed (management gurus, nutty professors, elite retired officers, ex-babus both defense and otherwise) are helpful in scaling your desired heights and thoughts to the masters.. give token to them. You have to please them, stand in que, and know their door if struck for the want of 'chai pani' or 'daru-varu' or 'pataka' or gifts hampers'. You may win some like game of lottery or loose plenty of time and money in pursuing them. Some of our industrial giants or their appointed CEO waited for quarter of their life to get to the top or inside the system they are presently queitly sleeping. Post libralisation called for open deals with the system (with out official red tapes) which termed as 'yellow tapes' in corporate world. Attending to the personal functions (religious or non religious) is important ritual to be part of the middle men..may be for fixing lights, flowers and tasting the food for their clients. Add glamour part you are invited to grand openings, fashion shows, chatter parties and bingo! clients are happy to set the agenda in motion. Media avoid taking a cue from such gatherings more the better. Our leading politcians who are heading the nation -state are party to such gathering emerging subsequently in their support, opposition and supposition towards the ageda of corporates. Grand plans for investment, takeovers and launches of new products are made in these gathering. Very truly and sensibility implemented by the leaders in their state and ministries. Poor planning commission fails to attract attention of corporates in their scheme of things. None of things we acheived in recent past was outcome of the consultation at the commissions set for various plan periods or annual plans. Thats for common men doles...and clever allocation of funds. Middle men (some of them are in commission too) set the agenda of the nation and system follows it to facilitate the interest groups not worthy to attend the cause of nation building. Poor set of babus are allowed to follow them like our taxmens, legal honchos, police, vigilance offices, IB, RAW etc etc etc all tied their strings strongly with these middle men, agents and term them as informers. They need to soil their hands in order get into the merkier deals.

All was well when we are dealing in pot holed communication systems till 1990s. Post information super highway even the highly guarded US secrets are out in open (courtsey: Wikileaks) when do you think our middle men would not pass this information to hungry media. No one is spared from witch hunting...the middle men would wait for the right chances till they are not satisfied with the client base. The corporate transition of the middle profession (oouch!) preferably the 'fourth estate' now acts as birdge between serviced and un serviced class of modern India.

Getting tapes (pen drives, CD??) for the middle men are not so hard task else who would not like evesdrop on your wall, listen and rejoice till you utter..merky word like'deal' done..chalega...ho jayega...set hai...tell them...saab trusts on you and so on ...Please do not get caught now..least wait for INDILEAKS to happen...(5 million docuements, 10,000 diaries, 1 million photos et etc). BABUJI jara dhire chaloo...

Violence of Naxals: Will it End?

Its with the deep pain I find myself helpless when we talk about the poor tribals and central India. The Naxals and Maoist engaged in war with Indian establishment has been violently attacking the civil population. Either they have lost the mandate and resorted to futile effort to conduct unsuccessful revolution. In case they tend to send a message to Government of India, this is clear, they do not want any intervention in their areas, neither they are ready to negotiate. The failure of security forces in tacking with the issues is due to lack of understanding of the forces regarding the nature and terrain of the areas and people. The civil population, what so ever little support recieved from the India is being taken away by such attacks which does not match with the ideals set in free India. We know this fact those who have got benefits of growth would not like these acts of violence and should law act strictly.

Naxals or Maoist by such attack is hampering the little support the tribals were recieving from the urban middle class in eastern India. The intellectuals who were ready to participate in discussion between the parties are no longer would be interested in such a dialogue which starts from discussion on innocent blood bath from both the sides. Who assumes that demands would be heard? A huge supression from the state is awaited which would harm the larger interest of tribals in central India. The mass migration of tribals would escalate given the rising violence in the districts affected. But where this would lead the tribal population in 21st century? Will it end?

War from Jungle to Streets in Naxal Areas

The todays attack on the moving train by the Naxal elements, is an direct assault on the establishment to listen to their demands. The confrontation between the state and naxals are far from direct. While the operations are carried out in Jungles the naxals are present in main stream sections of railways and communication lines. The killing and massacare by the naxals or the maoist are serious blow to the operational preparedness of the security agencies. This act requires serious condemnation of the naxals by one and all. This not the way revolution happens, there is wrong notion of hope which comes from sudden change in the system. We need to follow the middle path of dialogue with institutions and accept the democratic set up of the country. Yes! the rights of common people needs to be provided with in the constitutional frameworks.

Why should they kill the fellow citizens? Do they want everybody to support such killing? For the sake of poor tribals, peaseants, artisans and forest dwellers, please abstain from such acts. This is unaccebtable to any citizen of free India, we will not be able to answer our future generations incase these actions by violent groups are stopped. In close reaction, many innocent lives are lost in present attack on the railway facilities, and more would loose incase government forces retaliates. God! this not what we have been looking into in the name of egalitarian societies.

Use of force to engage the ideology are now thing of past and such tactics often backfires in the modern world. Maoist, is suited to this kind of inhuman actions would never be able to achieve their idea of society. Nothing comes without a cost, but this does not go well with the governments, security agencies are not prepared except some small success, they have failed the citizens of country during last six months.