The freeloading, lying press built him up as a physician who was going to cure all the ills besetting this country. The good Doctor, we were told in large letters, is not a politician, was honest and a whiz in economics so India was going to lead the world. Six years on we have a Chemicals Minister who has wasted Rs. 2 million of taxpayers' money commuting to his home in Chennai. The Railways Minister uses the Railway Police as her personal servants for a political rally in Bengal. The Agriculture Minister is happy with 50000 tons of food grain rotting away without proper storage. The Telecoms Minister has been directly implicated in the 2G scam which resulted in an estimated Rs. 1 trillion loss to the exchequer. So much has been looted from the Commonwealth Games that they are now finding it difficult to somehow complete the various projects even with makeshift covers. So what is the Captain doing? Has he sacked the wrongdoers in moral outrage and asked the police to investigate them before throwing the lot into the bin? Perish the thought. He is hanging onto his seat for as long as possible and for as long as Madam allows. To tolerate crimes in silence, to tolerate the humiliation of being reduced to a spectator while others do whatever they like and to tolerate being ordered to shut up so that the gang can hang on to power is surely a sign of a man totally without honor. And what about the economy? It is a house of cards floating on a huge asset price bubble which, if it bursts, could lead to collapse. What an irony speaking on Independence Day marking the departure of white skinned British that 1 billion brown skinned Indians are still being ruled by a ' gori chamri ' or white skin.