I am surprised by the article,coming from Mr. Shenoy who otherwise writes some scholarly articles. What point is he trying prove by accusing or even hinting at Congress or its leaders. I doubt if anyone would ever pay crores to tap phones of somebody like Amarsingh, who is as page 3 item as Mallika Sherawat or others of her ilk. He is in news come what may, like accusing people of blocking TV access to news of somebodies' jaundice or flu or constipation and what not. So what would have one got by tapping his phones, and then why not Mulayam Singh, his party boss? And then Mr. Shenoy draws parallels between phone tapping in US with India. By that corollary we should say India is Amar and Amar is India!! (please not that so far such claims from others have not been substantiated and Amar Singh's is only "serious case"). America through its Patriotic bills and other acts, is routinely violating rights of its own people now and for other people they were never supposed to have them anyway.
And lastly, if we try to mix personal prejudices or ideologies with articles like this, rediff.com would be reduced to a just another blog site, from a good read it is currently is.
