Acharya Kriipalani-- eternal vigilance is the price of freedom

Acharya Kriipalani - eternal vigilance is the price of freedom

1. The concluding para of this article evokes some memories of the past. It also reinforces what I heard from Acharya Kriipalani that eternal vigilance is the price of freedom.

 2.Around 1992 I had a Bihari friend who was very close to Chandra Shekhar, then the PM  of India.We would often taunt him about their political clan. One day he gave a befitting rejoinder:

Jis desh ka voter he corrupt ho to politician kaise nahin na  hoga. Ab dekhiye... purane zamane mein ek thho kambal dete the to pakka bhote milta tha. Aur aaj to sasura 500 rupaya le leta hai par bhote phir bhi kisi aur ko deta hai. Aisa beimaan janta ka neta beimaan nahin hoga to aur kya hoga.

We had no answer. Do you have?

3. I have a strange feeling that this article is a hoax. Several months ago I received a similar email raising similar issues and referring to  panel discussion in Europe. This suspicion is reinforced by the fact that The Hindu online  is not the first publisher of this article. The same article also appeared  on 30/5/2010  ( a day before The Hindu) at  

http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewnewspaged/articleid/4165126/pageid/1 

I therefore suspect if  the genuine Mohan Murti, a resident director of reliance in europe, etc., would like to rub Indian leaders on the wrong side.

Wonder how I should go about cross checking on this piece.