For, honest people like Satyendra Dubey and Manju Nathan paid the price for it - they died. Or rather, they were brutally murdered. What you see in the movies, and what our puranas say, and the tales our grandmothers told us - everything is a sham; a lie. In India, only MIGHT matters. Good does not win over evil in India, as these untimely deaths show us. And we aspire to be a superpower. Wah!
It is sad that the media has not taken up the case of this young IIML graduate, who chose to work with IOC instead of a multinational and paid for it with his life. And to those 'intellectuals' who complain about bran-drain, I have just this to say: SCREW YOU. If you cannot, at the very minimum, guarantee the personal safety of honest officials working in the public sector, do not even open your mouth to talk about brain-drain. I, and thousands of others, wouldn't be caught dead working in the Indian public sector, and you have no right to point fingers at us. Especially after this.
Gaurav has a poignant post about his senior here.
Rashmi has a brief tribute here.
DesiPundit reports that Mridula has compiled a list of links paying tribute to Manju Nathan. It is indeed an thoroughgoing list.
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Honesty is not that good a policy anywhere, but it is much more difficult to be honest in India than in other places. My relative is a building inspector in USA and during one of his inspections, he found a building which did not meet the safety standards and failed the approval certification. The next day when he was returning home, he was waylaid and attacked by goons and he was crippled due to the attack for more than one year. The only silver lining was that though the goons were not caught the builder was sent to jail after fighting in court for more than 6 months. Of course India is worse as the petrol pump owners will not even be tried and will go scot free, but just trying to set right the perception that it is very easy to do one duty in other countries. It is much easier than India but not all that easy.
RedRajesh,
Point accepted. I do hope that the perpetrators are convicted this time, though.
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