Is todays Indian Politics ever remind you of the story “Alibaba & 40 Thieves”?
It not only reminds one of “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves” but the whole 16 volumes of Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton’s unexpurgated translation of one of the greatest classics of English Literature viz.” One Thousand and One Nights ” which later came to be commonly called as ‘Arabian Nights’ and which contains and depicts every type and variety of crook imaginable.Today’s politician will be considered a piker compared to the brigands and thugs of yore.Maybe they are taking lessons from the A N and refining the strategies and scheming to a fine art. The result is there for all of us to see in Raja,Kalmadi and everyone of the participants,brokers,defence personnel,politicos and all their near and dear ones who jointly and severally contributed to one of the recent and best known and orchestrated scams ever,to wit,the Adarsh Society Scam.I am still poring over Sir Richard’s tomes to see whether I can find a parallel for the Anderson escap(ad)e, including the latest where the governm
