On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Why does the SC always have to be the adult in the room? I find this a > disturbing phenomenon not just in Indian government but it's also been > my experience when dealing with private individuals and companies in > India - there's a strong tendency to try to do things in half measures > until otherwise corrected. > > What is it about the India that makes this happen? > Because the motives for doing a thing are never what they seem. I have rarely seen anyhing done for its own sake. it is typically done with oblique motives. Sometimes they are done for effect, ie., to show that something is being done. The purity of the reasons that would guide the action are never front and center. And all of this happens because that is the way money moves in this country. The SC in fact is sick and tired of constantly being, as you put it, the adult in the room. They get panned from time to time for judicial activism. But if they don't do it then you'd never find out about, for e.g., the mining activites of the Reddy brothers or how long the Delhi giovt dithered over introducing CNG or how many lions there are in Gir or how many tigers we have. Also, withuot the SC taking the steps ittakes information/data from the private sector would rarely enter the public domain and we'd be stuck with data garnered/contorted by the executive. At the core, I think, is that our political class is never made to pay for their many faults.
