On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 10:41 AM, ss <[email protected]> wrote: [snipping text from SS on which I am in agreement]
To voice some conspiratorial thoughts I've had over the elephant in the room: - The timing of this release from "unknown" sources is a little too pat. - Given the political turmoil in AP, the Governor was in line to become the leader of the state if President's rule was imposed. - In the past Governors have been rumoured to cash in heavily on such situations by selling their will to the highest bidder - The media is suspiciously not interested in locating the people behind the sting operation - The usually unscrupulous Indian media is keeping a tight lid on replaying the actual tape itself - strange behavior since they are certainly in the habit of cashing in on controversies by delivering a blow by blow *ahem* account: where's the ticker tape, the transcribed audio, the public hunt to find the women on tape, the kangaroo court of self appointed experts on sex scandals? - The stay order issued by the high court could certainly not be the reason the media is so tight lipped, especially when the Raj Bhavan rather belatedly denied it ever got a stay order issued. - Besides, it's not like the media can't get creative - I'd at least expect to see interviews of the only 10 people who ever watched that minnow of a TV channel to narrate their shock and awe - There isn't even a witch hunt by the censors to kill the TV channel for degrading the dignity of women - It is the done thing in Indian politics to not leave the stage unless dragged off of it kicking and screaming - so the rather quiet resignation is something of an anachronism of King Kong proportions My spider sense tells me Mr. Governor got too greedy and made the wrong sort of enemies. Which leads me to ask the more interesting question - who is behind all of this orchestration, if it is indeed one (not that I am in any doubt) ? If it is indeed orchestrated, then the mind boggles at the scale of the shadow network of influence. I am usually not too worried about Indian society being fundamentally crooked, because everyone acts in their self interest, and eventually this leads to a fragmentation of power. But what just seems to have happened smacks of the kind of power that only dictators are able to wield. Cheeni
