An Under Secretary at the Home Ministry was caught by the CBI for stealing files related to a NGO run by Teesta Setalvad. He claimed that his boss was putting pressure on him to favor Ford Foundation which is an American organisation based in New York, with assets of $12.4 billion, which is $1,240 crore in Indian terms. With that kind of money you can do an awful lot of damage. As is usual in India, the official has since gone missing. We love a good mystery, don't we? When the present government came into office it suspended activities of several foreign funded NGOs. We have every right to say that we are not beggars and we do not want funds from abroad, thank you very much. The Ford Foundation lobbied the US government to be allowed to carry on its activities in India. If someone refuses your help will you shove it down his throat? Mystery. The US government twisted arms of our government until it surrendered and allowed Ford Foundation to carry on doing whatever it was up to. Why? What has the US government to gain from the Foundation's activities? We know that the ISI handed over Osama bin Laden to the US in 2011 so that Barack Obama could win his re-election in 2012, following which Obama rewarded Pakistan with loads of sophisticated weapons. So, his government forcing ours to allow Ford to carry on here reeks of a foul stink. Our government has decided to register all babies born in government hospitals, which means poor people, with the Unique Identification Authority of India, or UIDAI, so that every baby has an Aadhar number. " Enrolling children immediately after birth will ensure better delivery of entitlements and services under Integrated Child Development Scheme and various government-run programmes," said the Director General of UIDAI. It will also help in tracking missing children said another official. Oh, goody. It is for the benefit of people, just like Ford Foundation. The only problem is that babies cannot give informed consent to such an intrusive procedure and parents are willing conspirators because they will benefit from handouts. It takes time to check fingerprints and retinal scans so why not just tattoo a number on the forearm or plant a chip under the skin, which can be read by a RFID scanner from the outside. After all, babies cannot object. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court has rejected the idea of free speech and held that defamation will remain a criminal offence. This is only natural since contempt of court is the most serious crime in India. So Ramalinga Raju has to pay a fine of Rs 50 million for stealing Rs 71.36 billion and causing losses to shareholders of Rs 140 billion but when Times Now mistakenly used a picture of a judge in cheating case, for which the channel apologised profusely, but apparently not sincerely enough, it was fined Rs 1 billion. India is the 3rd most dangerous country in the world for journalists. Wonder why?
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