On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 07:54:24PM +0530, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: > - 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.
Supposedly the video was one of the most popular items on YouTube this last weekend, but I couldn't find a copy of it there. I did find some still scenes; they make it look like the guy was in a coma or under heavy sedation, and someone decided to bring in some pretty girls and stage some ugly scenes. I'm interested in the contradiction between Cheeni's statement, "they are certainly in the habit of cashing in on controversies by delivering a blow by blow *ahem* account," and Shiv's, "It is another matter that everyone is merrily having it off with everyone else but to be Indian (in public view) requires certain modes of behavior as part of etiquette." Maybe my guess about what "having it off" is a euphemism for is just wrong, but otherwise, what's the truth? It's certainly believable either that Indian politicians rarely commit adultery (because of the enormous social consequences), or that the media are reluctant to report it, but Cheeni and Shiv seem to be asserting separately that neither of these are true. But if that were the case, wouldn't we see a news story like this every month? > My spider sense tells me Mr. Governor got too greedy and made the > wrong sort of enemies. In politics, everyone has the wrong sort of enemies. > But what just seems to have happened smacks of the kind of power that > only dictators are able to wield. Maybe someone thought the governor would be in the way of something they want right now, and the doddering old governor was in no shape to resist. Kragen
