Indians don't care about their politician's personal lives, as long as those lives DON'T affect public decision making.
A lot of Indians whom I personally know, including very well paid senior executives are shocked & horror struck by Antilla's ostentatiousness.
Indians are upset about Bofors because they perceive their senior politicians like the late Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, P V Narasimha Rao, and the living Atal Behari Vajpayee, Manmohan Singh or Pranab Mukherjee to be well above board. When any one of them is caught on the wrong foot, it is remembered for a long time. Similarly their good deeds are also remembered, including PVN's liberalization of the Indian economy. Abhishek Manu Singhvi would likely have been forgotten the day he retired from active politics and similarly his scandal will also be soon forgotten, not because of the scandal itself, but because of the relative importance of Singhvi.
Similarly Bofors is of import in the public memory, not because of the merits of the case itself, but rather the towering personalities directly & indirectly accused thereof.
As opposed to a 2G scam, that is of import by and of itself, in the public memory.
It appears that gameplane of super rich is effectively coverup their dirtydesign in money making bussiness leaving the responsibility to paid experts and intellectuals to fight amongst the third world politicians.
The author seems to an ignoramus of first water. Indians don;t lap up sex scandals like Mr.Sethi's western masters because Indians don't care what the politicos do with their private lives and parts.
Mr.Sethi should be awarded a Nobel prize in shamelessness for clubbing together Kiran Bedia, Monica Bedia and the master crook Rajiv gandhi and his fellow Mafiosi Quattrochi.
Re: The author
by kumar kn on Apr 30, 2012 09:46 AM
Bofors will be the ghost that will haunt the Congress forever since all Indians know that one Italian helped another Italian to make money and run away to Italy.
