India: A banana Republic? [Apr 27, 2016]

With every passing day, the incidents of scams, grafts, corruption involving politicians of every colour and ideology, resulting to loss of lives or siphoning of money of incredulous and unheard of proportions, makes you gradually resolve to the fact that we reside in a banana republic and the fate of India is entrusted into wrong group of hands, who do not cringe even when their acts compromise the security of the nation.
Cutting across political lines they defend their ilk. That is the reason that, beyond the rhetoric and the brouhaha, no political bigwig has ever been convicted in any of the high profile scams.. They do a bit of rabble rousing and when the lemon has no more juice to be extracted, shove it under the carpet and pounce on the next juicy and meaty headline grabbing item..