Big Bully

Who? Doordarshan

Why? Because they are use legislations and laws to make up for their inefficiency

What? Passed a legislation so that Nimbus (the company that runs Neo Sports Channel currently has rights to telecast all cricket matches in India till 2010) will be forced to share live telecast feed with Doordarshan for all the matches that it airs without encryption. This not only means loss of valuable revenue within India, but the lack of encryption also makes the telecast vulnerable to usage by other channels outside India.

Or take the presidents of IOA (Indian Olympic Federation) and the All-India Football Federation. The current presidents have been holding their posts for more than 15 years each. Yet, India is ranked 132 among 137 countries that play football. And we can count the number of medals India has won in Olymics in the past 15-odd years on our fingers. One wonders – do these officials ever feel accountable, if not to the country or their job, then atleast to themselves? All they have done during their tenure is to amass a disproportionate amount of wealth, and abuse their power. In my opinion, the recent Bill on reservation in educational institutions was also an effort to this end – abuse of power. The politician in question was probably thinking that this would be the sure shot way of coming back in the limelight. After all, how many of us even knew he existed before the Reservation furore?

I wholeheartedly agree with the Supreme Court judge who said “Everyone wants to loot this country. The only solution is to hang some corrupt persons from the lampost”. I would think that when it comes to politics, rather than people getting corrupted by the power in it, it is the corrupted who get attracted to the power.

Disillusionment.