So a fellow gets chucked out of the plush governmental job and starts writing articles. Good. Wink wink nudge nudge Rajiv or Nehru or Gandhi was behind all the bad deeds. Drag others like Seshan as well into the pot and a heady mix is brewing to be consumed. Now if there are people who actually count something good Rajiv or Seshan has done will rediff publicize it? Or is rediff also implementing reservations - may be bhaskar ghose is a member of an "opressed" votebank??
Don't forget Seshan is the only reason that Indian Electorate is in good shape today. Regarding,calling names, only competent and efficient people have the moral right to give suggestions in other people for their improvements. I think, now a days TN Seshan has become a scape goat for many people.
If Seshan had asked the poor cameraman to be punished because he did not have VCR, it is one thing; but if his anger was because the cameraman was not organised enough to fish out an important cassette quick enough, then it is another. If the cameraman is having \"a heap of casettes\" it is all the more the reason to be more organised (nothing great- have a marker and quickly jot the the hour and day before the shoot starts). Ghose did good to stand up for his guy like any good boss must do, but like any good boss he must also have initiated measures that a cameraman to the PM in a very sensitive mission is well-organised and prepared. Seshan may be a bad-temper guy but he did lit fire under a sleepy administrative system a \"Chalta-hai\" attitude that had gone too deep into the Givernment psyche for too long. I would like to hear if other than bravely standing up to a short-tempered Seshan, did Ghose take any internal improvement measures?
RE:Seshan
by A.H. Venkatachalam on Oct 17, 2005 06:29 PM Permalink
It is not at all in good taste to run down his senior IAS colleague. It is unfortunate for Mr. Bhasker Ghose to have worked at the same time when quickwitted, capable, administratively efficient, versatile, honest, dynamic and well organised people like Mr. Seshan, Mr. M. Varadarajan and the likes also served the Central Government. They were giants and others looked like dwarfs in front of them. Apparently, Bhasker Ghose would have imbibed their spirit and emulated them if he had had the opportunity to serve under them.
Bhaksar Ghose's memory seems to be failing. The attack on Rajvi Gandhi by the Sri Lankan soldier occured in 1987 when he had gone to Colombo to sign the historic Indo-Sri Lankan Peace Agreement under which IPKF troops were deployed in that country's North-East. It was not a useless trip as Ghose wants us to believe but a very signficant one, since it set the stage for Rajiv's assassination four years later.
The IPKF was withdrawn in 1990 during the V.P. Singh government.
As for his comments about T.N. Seshan I could not agree more.
