Nellai Suresh puts in black and white

It was a wonderful month in Paris. What I like about cities in developed nations is that they take such small and minute steps to make the life of the citizen very comfortable. For instance, the roads and pavements are laid out in such a nice fashion that one can pull a big luggage weighing even 30 kilos along the road from one's residence to the nearest railway station or bus stand. How many Indian cities can boast of that?

I don't say that corruption does not exist there. Politicians are corrupt (As Bernard Shaw said, "Politics is the last refuge of the scoundrels" even now). Officials are corrupt but not as widespread as here. Even Police may be corrupt. But the common citizen is spared of many ordeals.

Another simple innovation I noticed was in the airport which I did not find in any other airport. One aero-bridge is used for both arrival and departure at two gates one below the other in two stories by a simple contraption. The tail part of the tunnel is made movable up and down and it serves both the gates with no compromise of security. It saves cost too. A flight can arrive at one gate, off-load passengers, get readied and accept passengers for departure. A beautiful innovation which Indian airports can think of implementing. Is anybody listening?

Jesus Christ once said, "the one amongst the crowd who hath not committed a sin shall cast the first stone" on a woman charged of immorality. This applies to Indian political parties. BJP is talking of corruption. Their hands are not yet cleaned after what they did in Karnataka. Buying 3 MLAs from Congress, making them ministers and then trying to become a majority is no act of virtue. Even the one MP who has claimed to have been lured is not a paragon of virtues. He was charged with cash for question and in MPLADS corruption. BJP says that he was exonerated by a commission. Even Indira Gandhi was exonerated of all the findings of Shah Commission. Will BJP accept that?

Dr Manmohan Singh has more patriotism and the country's interest in mind than any of the MPs of today, including Advani. What he did in 1991 to uplift the country, he has repeated again.At that time also, these communists and BJP said that he was acting as an agent of World Bank and IMF. Nothing could be farther from truth. And again he is charged as caviling to US. This also cannot be farther from truth