Don't insult the whore

(Sorry, have been travelling. Here's what I wrote in the Mirror today in the meantime.)


Good work, NDTV. Assuming the tapes are accurate (there’s no reason to believe otherwise), that was a cool sting operation in the Sanjeev Nanda hit and flee case. It has yet again reminded us of the rot in the criminal justice system in this country. But will anything change after the great expose? No, you guys have simply wasted footage. May as well have given that much television time to your party reporter Ms Anisha Baig, at least she brings in some cheer into our dull and dreary lives. We are an intensely corrupt nation, and our lawyers are one of us, they haven’t come from another planet. There is corruption in the army, in the police, in politics, in the bureaucracy, you name it. So why should the lawyers behave themselves? We Indians eat ghoos, we drink ghoos, we burp ghoos, we shit ghoos. Apart from nations in the sub-continent, I cannot think of a single country where the prosecution and defence lawyers hunt in pairs. The only entity I implicitly trust is the street hooker. Because there is no deceit, no hypocrisy, no fraud with her. What you see is what you get. She must be the most honest worker in this country today. So please, let’s not insult her by saying our lawyers are prostituting their profession. Instead, let’s idolise her.