The Black Swan

This is not about the movie! The Black Swan refers to the rare event that strikes in a least expected manner. And for India the Black Swan occurrence is the sudden activism that has landed quite a few punches to the Government, its spinmeisters and the Left Lib industry.

All was going well for the entire 'establishment' in India. The Queen was in her parlour eating bread and honey and counting out her money, the maids and her manservants were in the garden of the palace hanging out her laundered linen to dry, when along came the Black Swan (in the form of Radia tapes) that suddenly bit them in one of the sensitive areas of the body politic.

Forgetting sarcasm for a while, let us see it as a chance event. these things do not normally happen, and yet they do with a regularity that makes you wonder why people never learn. The Congress was in power right from the time of independence for an uninterrupted period of 30 years. There were upheavals galore for brief spells, the congress split of 1969, the emergency occasioned by the Allahabad High court judgement against Indiraji, the second split and so on. This time however, secure in the knowledge that the sycophants were in their place and all the allies had been suitably placated with their favorite avenues for securing loot or for satisfying their desires for ego massage or whatever, the Cong. went forward with its own agenda and tried to also pave the way for never getting caught by packing institutions with pliant people who would look the other way or not investigate with any vigor the crimes and misdemeanours committed by them. But black swan events are upon you suddenly without warning.

The three events that created an upheaval this time were

1. The release of the Radia tapes by Open Magazine and Outlook. Outlook always seemed a pro Congress magazine and, all of a sudden, it released what was dynamite.
2. The Supreme Court is now headed by a person who is an extremely honest and totally impartial jurist. Dissatisfied by the pace of investigation into various cases, the CBI was asked to report directly to the Court. Since then we saw the resignation of one of the Central Ministers followed by his arrest
3. Even with all this the media and press had almost decided on a policy of Omerta, silence in Italian related, ironically enough, to the Mafia. The whole affair broke out in Twitter and suddenly it erupted all over.

Everyone is aware now of loot that has taken place and nothing that the Govt. does nor the whitewash attempted by fellow travellers in the media can save the day. The Govt. looks like it is fighting with its back to the wall.

Exposure is like taking toothpaste out of a tube. Nothing can put it back again and now everyone is waiting to see the next scandal come out. But all that will be after the World Cup!