It is devious human nature that causes us to point to others when we are in a tight spot. It’s a kind of manoeuvre as on the dance floor when a dainty lady deftly shifts her foot to avoid getting it trampled by a not so agile partner.
Here are some examples: When you are stopped for speeding, one’s first reaction is “there were others who were speeding, why only catch me?” Indira Gandhi during her term when confronted by massive scams by Congress men and women infamously retorted with “which other country is not corrupt?” As if that absolved her government of everything. So now our very own Goa minister Govind Gaude is merely following in those footsteps. When asked about the scandalous crashing of a slab of the under-construction Kala Academy, he countered by plaintively telling the accusers “why only me? No one focuses on other scams. Not even on the scandal of Atal Setu.” Wah re wah Gaude Bab, you could have been a little more clever and original too, by saying instead that never mind the Tender File for the Academy was closed to everyone else but more importantly it was passed by the CM himself. Does it not happen that in Goa, as elsewhere in India, commissions are spread from the bottom all the way to the very top and every level in between. So you would indeed have been telling the truth! Roland Francis 416-453-3371
