LIE begets TrUtH

Imagine how the world would react to the announcement of The DOW Chmicals’ spokesperson that the company is going to pay its liabilities of US $12 billion towards the world’s worst industrial disaster ~Bhopal.How the victims would feel? No need for that visual modality actually,one just needs to go to the news archives of the 20th “anniversary”(for DOW it certainly is one delighting moment,for it got away un-liabilitated ) of the tragedy.

It was pulled off by “THE YES MEN-FIX THE WORLD” , a loose-knit association of some 300 impostors worldwide,with a single moto:”Impersonating big-time “criminals” in order to publicly humiliate them.Targets are leaders and big corporations who put profits ahead of everything else.”

I cant say how much I liked and enjoyed the idea.After the announcement was made on BBC-World TV ,to some 300 million viewers worldwide,every news channel could be seen with analysts and experts saying that what needed to be done has been done,a very very rightful thing to do,better late than never…..

And after it was realised it was all a hoax about 2 hrs later ,what was on was that how the imposters had hurt the feelings of the victims by creating false hope.The two “imposters” CAME TO India to try to find out if that had been the case.To their surprise,after interacting with a lot of victims ,they found out that they were rather happy that someone had raised the issue that the world seemed to have long forgotten."Sometimes it takes a lie to expose the truth.”-they say.

Just so that u know,DOW paid all Union Carbide’s liabilities in the US- courtesy a robust judiciary,but didnt bother about more than 5 lakh victims in Bhopal.And coutesy to the snail’s pace of trials in our country-the verdict of the Supreme Court of India came 25 years later.What is even more hilarious is the charges the culprits have been convicted with ~same one gets for a traffic incident.

This kind of mockery of the value of life and citizens create an environment where corporates think they can do anything,and actually start doing so-in the name of collateral damage for the sake of development and greater good.

Take TATA Communications,e.g.,which has been shitting us for months now with its service,parting us from our hardly-ever-enough money.I even need to hurry writing this piece out for I dont know when the connection will die again. Had it been the US I would have had them sued at least 10 times by now.This frustration is the reason I went on to detail aaaaalllllllllllllll that,by the way.

Oh..am really slow with the keys.

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