Durga Shakti Nagpals are Exceptions Not the Rule!!!!
When the conscience is coarsened over the treatment meted out to an exceptionally brave young IAS officer who dared to expose the dirty Indian politicians, I have a question troubling me. Is she an exception? I tend to believe she is. You may come down heavily on Mulayam, Akilesh and their tribe but what about a good number of our bureaucrats who have reduced themselves to the status of slaves!!! I remember very vividly the woeful tale of one of my very close relatives who once courted trouble by being very honest and conscientious in discharge of his duties. The fact of the matter was a deal involving leasing of government-owned fishing trawlers bought at a huge cost to the exchequer. As is very natural and common, in no time these trawlers were most inefficiently run by the corporation entrusted with the job and a corrupt minister quickly sensed his chance to engage a multi-national company to lease them. When my relative who was offered all kinds of material baits to buy his silence, repeatedly drew the attention of the departmental secretary to defaults on the part of the company to pay lease rent which was obviously a deliberate act, at the behest of the minister, the secretary threatened him with dire consequence if he persisted in his stand. I need not relate what happened to my relative at the end of his career. He was a 'condemned' functionary forced to spend his time in his small chamber till the last of his career and this corrupt minister deftly managed to keep himself afloat by joining Mulayam's bandwagon. He has cleverly managed to be a member of the Rajya Sabha member of Samajbadi Party although he hails from West Bengal!!!