There were a couple of blog posts by HF and yours truly recently about how Siddharth Varadarajan panders to the UPA government while vaguely placing the blame of corruption on corporate India.
Sainath in what is a blistering editorial on the culture of corruption and inaction of the UPA literally lamblasts Sidd V's theories to atoms.
He raises the issue of subsidies in the last budget being given a free pass by the Government.
This the same PM who has been claimed by LiC and Sidd V as a paragon of virtue of integrity.
Sainath in what is a blistering editorial on the culture of corruption and inaction of the UPA literally lamblasts Sidd V's theories to atoms.
That is, electronic media chiefs and editors who have mostly adored Dr. Singh for nearly two decades. If even the largely free ride they gave him left him unnerved and defensive, it's a measure of how much things have changed. Not that the editors emerged looking better. If asking the right questions is at the heart of journalism, then somebody had a bypass. At no point did it occur to them that the corruption they questioned him on with some passion, flowed entirely out of policies and from a policy altar at which they have worshipped for years.
He raises the issue of subsidies in the last budget being given a free pass by the Government.
The dominant media have never once raised a peep of protest against the corporate plunder of public money, thanks to the government Dr. Singh presides over. Nor did they in this conference with the Prime Minister. So Dr. Singh is understandably peeved when asked about the petty cash transfers of the 2G scam to a handful of hucksters.
This the same PM who has been claimed by LiC and Sidd V as a paragon of virtue of integrity.
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Good article by Sainath. for some reason, he has not been writing often enough on chindu. his views are not palatable to the editor-in-chief, i suppose.
Sainath is like token voice of reason, like Krishna Iyer is the voice of senility.
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