Friday, August 19, 2011

[Som] IIM-A students organize a candle-light procession in support of Anna Ha...

This post is aimed to showcase duplicity in superficial conduct of IIM Ahmedabad community who organized a candle-light procession in support of Anna – Jan Lokpal.  Once again wannabe Corporate Babudom cared not to miss an important photo-op to be seen on right side of right-wrong divide. After all such opportunities come but infrequently.


Do these young people really care for honesty and accountability? Look here how Chief Vigilance Officer (CVO) of IIM Ahmedabad permitted plunder (HARD cash corruption) of nearly a crore rupees. CVO is loath against recovering loss to the institute. And students would care the least to hold him accountable for plunder from fees chest. Had these LTC scam money (and there are other scams too) been saved, increase in student fees could have been avoided. Would someone believe that the same CVO (on 19/11/2010) also participated in student organized candle light vigil in memory of Manjunath? And that he even took pledge against corruption in the presence of students. 


http://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/62643646?access_key=key-20gee23jzup4n8qav0sf
Above is the whistle blower email on electronic noticeboard (ALLNB) of IIM Ahmedabad. Whistleblower on the same noticeboard also claimed absolute NIL response from faculty and students. Silence of elite faculty and students when confronted with corruption in their own backyard speak volume about their inner core value systems, their duplicity, their superficial vigils.


Arm chair intellectuals are always comfortable working with LARGER systems. Larger the better. After all, IIMA is too small and inconvenient a CANVAS for crème de la crème! And then, having made big investments (fees), there are pressing issues like research/academic pursuits, promotions, grades, conferences, placements, awards... Candle light vigils are better means to console and pamper one's conscience. 


In corporate-babudom, successful babus are those who follow the mantra - stay close to the line  dividing good-evil, moral-immoral. Sneak in to evil side to gulp down crumbs with generous helpings of moral preaching's (smokescreen). Sh*t in to brother's account. And immediately hurry back to be seen on right side of right-wrong divide. Rarely does a 'Ramalinga Raju' or 'Rajat Gupta' gets caught with bloody hands.


When a constable pays to get favorable posting, it is but natural that some stack-holder needs to payback. But here the student stack-holder is agnostic and willing to pay higher fees as long as the deal leaves him with ample on field opportunities. Bear it for 2 years. Get the 'seal' of 
approval stamped on your persona (Idiot istyle!) and push-off.


If these candle light vigils are not duplicity and superficial, what they are? QED.


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Posted By Blogger to Som at 8/19/2011 06:49:00 AM

Roberto Giori and allegations of counterfeit currency : Who Was That Special Passenger?

Fake Money : Govt. and RBI pumping Counterfeits in country
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhU7MZgf2RA



Who Was That Special Passenger?
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2053713,00.html
By MASEEH RAHMAN Monday, Jan. 17, 2000


At one point during the eight-day hijacking of Indian Airlines Flight 814, the abductors demanded $200 million from the Indian government. Little did they know that one of the hostages sitting in economy class could have effortlessly written them a check for that amount. Roberto Giori, owner of the Lausanne-based company De La Rue Giori, boarded Flight 814 after a holiday in Katmandu with his companion Cristina Calabresi. De La Rue Giori, which Giori inherited from his father, happens to control 90% of the world's currency-printing business. 

The 50-year-old Giori, who holds dual Swiss and Italian nationality, is one of Switzerland's richest men.When the plane was hijacked over northern India, Giori and other business-class passengers were herded into economy. The scariest moment came three hours later when the pilot tried to land at the airport in Lahore, Pakistan. I thought it was the end, Giori later recalled. The runway was not visible because the lights were off, the plane had no fuel and the pilot even tried to land on a brightly lit road next to the airport.

After the plane landed in Kandahar, southern Afghanistan, where it would remain for seven days, Switzerland sent a special envoy to the airport to deal with the abduction of its currency king, his companion and two other Swiss nationals. It also put pressure on New Delhi to come to a solution that ensured their safe release. Meanwhile, Giori experienced harassment and deprivation along with the rest of the passengers, including irregular rice-and-mutton-curry meals, inadequate drinking water, no tea or coffee, stinking toilets and sudden bursts of temper from the hijackers. On top of that came constant lectures from the hostage-takers on Islam and the Kashmir separatist struggle, piped through the passenger address system. According to Giori, the hijackers told the hostages: As you suffer, think of how our brothers suffer in Indian jails.

After being freed and flown to New Delhi, Giori said: I realized suddenly that these men had no problem killing or getting killed. I am one hundred thousand percent certain they would have fought until the end. They were extremely well-trained and highly motivated. Giori said he was convinced that if India hadn't released militant leader Maulana Masood Azhar, the hijackers would have forced the aircraft to take off and then deliberately crashed it into the hills around Kandahar.

The week-long ordeal had an unexpected impact on the currency tycoon. What I experienced on the plane has changed me forever, said Giori. I don't know what it is: Hinduism, the so-called fatalism of Indians. But the way the passengers stayed so calm throughout, even the children, was exemplary. I told myself, if the plane had been full of Italians or French, it would have been very different.


Thursday, August 18, 2011

The Hindu : Opinion / Editorial : Corrupt, repressive and stupid

The Hindu : Opinion / Editorial : Corrupt, repressive and stupid

Anna Hazare might have given the cause a face, but the anti-corruption movement that is now in a rapid phase of expansion across India does not depend on one man or his team. The real force that is shaking the UPA government — which is widely perceived as the most corrupt in the history of independent India — is made up of hundreds of thousands of ordinary citizens who are fed up with a system they believe is opaque, corrupt, and driven by greed.