chetak wrote:Nirav Modi has been sent to HMP Wandsworth prison in South London. Here is how the prison looks like.
HMP Wandsworth is one of the oldest prisons in UK. IIRC the logic was any criminal who was from North of the River (Thames) generally goes to Pentonville and South goes to Wandsworth. And both these prisons also had gallows which was quite frequently used.
Zynda wrote:I still don't understand how RaGa is seen as a leader by Leftists. That dude has literally zero accomplishments & track record as a politician.
, what are the "achievements" of the Leftists in the first place?
. The leftists mainly the CPI(M) and CPI are two puppet organisations perhaps allowed to run in this country with tacit Congress party support. A "larger than life" image was created out of the commie outfits, but they have now pretty much lost their relevance in Indian politics. The leftists of today - clowns like Yechuri et.al - have no other way than to support Congress. Kerala based trollers regularly refer to Yechuri as a "washing machine". That is because he is said to have been reduced to such a state of joblessness that he is actually washing the undergarments of the Ghandi-Nehru clan at No 10. Janpath.
JohnTitor wrote:Look at kujliwala.. what has he done in life? Yet IIT colleagues of mine were supportive of him after his first stint as CM..
Kujliwala survived mainly because;
1. Many middle class Indians feel that a "well educated" person is naturally honest.
2. Any body who goes to IIT, IIM are considered to be "well educated" by the middle class Indians for whom these organisations are in a high pedestal. How many businessmen of yore who actually went to such places; nobody really cares about.
3. A "well educated" person is by default considered to be "smart & gentleman-ly" by the Indian middle class. For them other politicians are corrupt and unclean (in mind & body) individuals.
4. Many of these IIT & IIM folks also have a feeling that they have some god given right to decide right & wrong for the country.
Even at independence, other than gandi and bandit, everyone was cast aside. Are you really going to tell me that after fighting for independence for over 100 years, voters had no option but a crypto and a womaniser?
Sir, we also need to understand the India of 1940s-1960s when Bandit-ji and Gandhi held sway over the country.
1. What was the level of literacy in India at that time? How many voters at that point of time even knew what was good (or bad) for them?
2. Indians always had a "hero worship" mentality and the Brits also gave a good image to Bandit-ji and Ghandi so that they were considered as demi-Gods.
3. Even radio sets were a luxury at that time, so chances of people getting different thought processes was rare. And pretty much every media outlet had some Govt. control on it.
4. Stories of "crypto" and "womaniser" etc would not have got much circulation/publicity because there were no way such thoughts could be spread across a wide range of people. Cinema would have been the only possible medium to spread such messages, but "seculars" had got their ball$ held by a cutting plyer by then.
5. We see cases of erst-while princes and kings (Scindias?) becoming "politicians" and lots of Brahmins suddenly becoming "communists". These were all simple tactics of the old privileged lot to ease in to the new way of governnance (i.e democracy).