Monday, March 7, 2011

n rams and p sainaths orgy

young readers of the hindu who had not heard of the word orgy were introduced to the word today.

http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-opinion/article1515930.ece

p sainath earns the label of crony journalist today, joining siddharth varadarajan, in the list of over-wise and over-foolish at the same time journalists, who think they know better than the people whose interests they are supposedly forwarding.

at the very opening of his article, p sainath makes it clear to us that he is a crony who has wasted our time, and all the respect that he has accumulated in the past, is smashed to smithereens.

the crony writes that," In six years from 2005-06, the Government of India wrote off corporate income tax worth Rs.3,74,937 crore — more than twice the 2G fraud — in successive Union budgets.

this crony reveals that he has the same thinking of j jayalalithaa of the aiadmk, when he imputes about a 2g fraud being 176000 crores. the common folk of our country have by now realised that 176000 is a number thrown up by an unthinking bureauctic exercise, which is now being milked by the opposition parties, and disrupted an entire session of parliament.

will n ram write an editorial about how his taking up of the bofors investigation has benefited the country, except conferring a halo on his newspaper, and gaining it some respectability. the same game is on again, with p sainath having stirred back to life, with his wise articles again.

the crony writes further," Also fascinating is that the same classes benefit in multiple ways from all three write-offs. But how much does revenue foregone under corporate income tax, excise and customs duty add up to across the years? We have baldly stated budget figures for six years starting 2005-06, when the total was Rs.2,29,108 crore. To the current budget where it is more than double that sum at Rs.4,60,972 crore. Add up the figures since 2005-06 and the grand total is Rs.21,25,023 crore. Or close to half a trillion U.S. dollars. That is not merely 12 times the 2G scam losses."

we are led to confirming that whatever the crony has written is notional and presumptive, as are the losses from the 2g spectrum allocation.

the crony also tells,"Sounds more like the argument now making the rounds in some Tamil Nadu villages that nothing was looted in the 2G scam — that's the money translating into cheaper calls for the public."

this sad crony is a one-sided buffoon, that is the conclusion. he cannot write about average revenue per user before A Raja took over and ARPU  now. but, he surely can   avoid writing that the people do not know as mush as he does.

the crony will come up with more, let us await the evolution of the cronies.

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