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Big American Fishes and Poor Indian people

My first few days of life at PSGIM has been a promising start for what seems to be

an enjoyable, studious and a scintillating 18 months of a complete B school

experience, from midnight strolls to Fests and Role plays to projects and what not.

But what made me to write for Atulya is not only my lifelong anger anddisappointment towards our bureaucrats and the government but also the

frustration and despair that I could do nothing towards it. Let this be a start of a

small contribution which I have promised myself to give to our country.

It has been nearly 3 decades since India became a

victim of one of the worst industrial disasters (I don’t use the word accident) of the

world. The sad part being that India is going allow the sinister act to repeat but with

a small difference, that it would be totally within the law and will cause only a few

more thousands of lives this time.

After an end of a generation of peoplewho died and succumbed to injuries due to the disaster and dawn of a new

generation of their siblings who are still affected by the aftermath, our government

has just promised that it will allocate funds to start rehabilitation and

decontamination of the place. It has to be noted here that no proper compensation

has reached the victims yet. When we compare this to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill,

where a few thousand American fishes and birds died, the United States cried for

justice and received it within days. The President of USA himself is now promoting

tourism there (which involved a bath in the decontaminated beach) claiming that it

is safe(thanks to the $ 20 billion by B.P). I am not sure, as Indians, how we should

take this, when our own Government thinks we are not worthy of Justice.

At this juncture, the Indian government has put forward the nuclear ‘non’ liability

bill (the bill makes more sense when said like this) for the second time. After much

commotion the maximum liability has been raised to 1500 crores(it is a whopping

$10.5 billion in USA, though we may think it’s a small amount considering the

spectrum scam trust me it’s a lot of money!).The beauty of the bill does not stop

here, it is the fact that we can’t even file a case against the American government

or the company which will supply us. Even the current law in our country is for

unlimited liability. This bill is making an exception. The liability bill is the first in the

series of steps that are going to be taken to protect the interests of the American

big fishes at the cost of our taxpayer’s money as our government is taking moreliability than the corporations.

I don’t want my first article to revel in the negative side of our government, but

seeing the issue as an optimist and in a brighter context, maybe I should take that

our government is trying to save money in buying airline tickets, booking hotel

suites for the successors of Mr. Anderson and bearing the judicial costs for a case

that is going to last for 26 years and in the end punishing a peon for the disaster.

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The saved money can then be spent on tread mills and providing comfortable life

for pricks awaiting death sentence in jail for war against India. Let me too believe

what vimalan has said, quoting Chesterton let miracles happen in India. Jai Hind.

P.S Thank you saravanan, nirmal, vignesh, ifthikar(my inspiration) and my friends.