About couple of weeks back the COO of Air India was forced to resign by the government because it did not like comments made by him. Mr Gustav Baldauf was brought in to turn around the loss making airline and is said to have remarked, " When you call someone from outside, let him work. The government should control but let him work. It should not be involved in day-to-day operations." Eminently sensible we think but not for the criminal politicians. A minister's daughter is said to have forced Air India to cancel a scheduled domestic flight and used the aircraft to take her and her friends to a cricket match. Meanwhile the Aviation Minister admitted in the Lok Sabha that Air India earns Rs 360 million/day while spending Rs 570 million a loss of Rs 210 million/day. The company owes Rs 1.9 billion to oil companies which are also owned by the government so the taxpayer is losing out because criminals and their families are using the airlines for personal junkets. Meanwhile Parminder Kaur Gulati, captain of an IndiGo flight to Goa landed her nose wheel first and, on investigation, was found to have obtained her license based on a fake mark sheet. Since then 3 others have been suspended on similar grounds. Licenses are granted by the Director General of Civil Aviation, a government body. Seems that officials change marks of failing candidates on payment of Rs 5-7 hundred thousand with touts collecting Rs 60000. Just Rs 5 hundred thousand for the lives of 300 innocent people. Hindu mythology has stories of Gods fighting demons to protect humans. Today all politicians and civil servants are demons and the Gods have given up. Can anyone save us now?