Birds of Feather

Have you Kolkata friends seen the headlines in The Times of India of 11th October.
There were two headlines, coincidentally side by side. Or did the times of India put them so intentionally..
One read " Sergent turns snatcher at night" and the other read
"Retd top cop, wife tortured & robbed"
The first is about two cops who beat up and snatched Rs 20,000/- from a person who had taken the money as loan to treat his father who was in hospital.
The second is about a retired deputy commissioner of Kolkata police and his wife. They were slashed with choppers, their hands and feet tied and eight almirahs and two wall cupboards broken.
The world has gone through the whole cycle now. Cops have turned robbers and robbers have started beating up the cops.
This is the frankenstein our politicians have created in Bengal by unionizing the policemen.
Now, the policeman, instead of doing their jobs they curry favour with the politicians.
What does a policeman have to do with cricket, except see matches. But our chief minister has made him an
important office bearer in the CAB. So what does he do?
Instead of preventing crime, he encourages crime.
Is it of any surprise that people have started taking the law into their hands and lynching criminals when they catch them?
The people would have started lynching the politicians too like they are lynching the PDS agents in the rural areas, if they had not protected themselves with a wall of security forces.
What a change?
Pandit nehru used to travel in an open car and would get down every now and then to shake hands with the people.
Now, the so called "peoples representatives" are protecting themselves from the people

Cheers for Goethals

Radheshyam