Adapt or Die

Madhu Koda incident is not about politics-mafia nexus but it is a sordid tale of a culture of lawless and injustice rooted deeply in India’s 60 years of post-independence history and political culture. A more important issue that emerges from this whole episode is that why have politicians in India grown rich and powerful and not the NATION as a whole?

What motivates somebody to accumulate wealth worth thousands of crores using illegal means? The hope that they could getaway with the cache. I guess in Indian politics, becoming Koda (or Mayawati or Mulayam or Lalu or anybody else) is all about survival.... adapt or die.... be corrupt and share the booty.... with other fellow politicians (irrespective of their party), Naxal leaders, beurocrates etc... or get ready to be sidelined and die as an unknown individual somewhere in the rural India where eighty percent of Indians are still living.