The Law

I had long wished for cleanup in our government and in our politics and in our industry. The impunity with which we (in India) circumvent laws is difficult to digest (read: http://vbala99.blogspot.com/2011/01/capitalism-at-its-best.html).

And the DMK office was searched by CBI couple of days back. I doubt if CBI found any incriminating evidence connecting the ruling DMK party with kickbacks received for its (shall we say friendly) disbursement of 2G telecom licenses.

Nobody is above the law. Not the two pieces of s*** that have been the heads of state in this state for the last so many years. Not the industrialists like the Ambanis. Not the religious/caste minorities (with their "you cant to do this to a minority, we are entitled to misbehave. Bombing is our birthright") nor to the perpetrators of the Godhra.

We are on the right track. But, we need to speeden the verdicts. The way our processes and our courts work now, snails and tortoises overtake us. We should aim to settle the biggest of cases in about 6-12 months (as against 15-20 years now). That would mean improving the infrastructure for the legislative process, handle conflicting objectives of being provided with a lot of power while still being incorruptible. We need a mechanism for learning from our mistakes and incorporating the learnings.

When will this happen?

Cases pending in Supreme Courts: https://newsstand.google.com/articles/CAIiELzLeHnM-90FG4hLXGvuRuoqGQgEKhAIACoHCAowzrL9CjDC7vQCMK2y1gU