In the " Russia and India " supplement in the Times of India yesterday one Alexander Yemelyanenkov, writing on Kudankulum nuclear power plant, which was built with Russian collaboration, says that people in Lithuania, Armenia, Russia, Belarus and Ukraine are puzzled by the opposition to plant when Rs 131 billion have already been spent constructing it. He gives a list of plants with similar technology operating trouble free for years in Hungary, Czech Republic and Finland and lists 7 preventive technological safety systems in place. He says that seismic background of the region has been incorporated in the design and finishes with the killer argument that during a tsunami local people sheltered behind the breakwater of the plant. Any Indian will know the reason for the recent activism against the plant. The present Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu hates the party of the previous government, the DMK. DMK is an ally of the Congress at the center so she will oppose anything that Congress does even if an uninterrupted supply of power will provide an enormous boost for industries in the state, in turn boosting employment and standard of living. For Indian politicians personal gain or petty grudges are more important than progress of the people. The more important reason is that people have total contempt for civil servants and politicians and do not believe a word of what they say. For decades we have been ordered around like serfs and given no information. Even now simple information has to be dragged out of these criminals by using the RTI Act. People see the government as their enemy and reject everything they are told. With reason.