Weak monsoon rains have resulted in food inflation at 16%. Now there are floods in Andhra killing hundreds, destroying crops and making hundreds of thousands homeless. However not everybody is miserable in this festival season. A government survey has shown that 40% of funds under the Rs. 400 billion National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in UP and MP are being stolen. If the government survey shows 40% we can be certain that the true figure is likely to be close to 80%. The chairman of Air India/Indian Airlines is allowed any number of free tickets for himself, spouse and all family members. This when the airlines have been losing hundreds of billions every year for years. Clearly the kleptocrats are going to really enjoy. Our most honourable leader took his grown up sons, who are nothing in the government, while on a trip abroad and now it appears that the lady of the cooperative bank scam fame is going to take her relatives. Since there will be no customs check they can smuggle whatever they fancy. At our expense of course. The criminal politicians are going to have a rollicking time. We, the brain dead people of India, are so grateful that some are travelling by ' cattle class ' and eating food in dalit houses. Meanwhile our HRD minister is so proud to have refused any pay increases for IIT professors. We desperately need a school for sharam and izzat.