Bollywood or Hathras -which is more important

 

The ramshackle UP town of Hathras is miles away from Bollywood. While the glittering lights of tinseltown captivate us, we wish grimy Hathras didn’t exist to spoil our fantasies of ‘New India’. Yet it is a nondescript Hathras village which today reveals the abyss between real India and escapist India.

For weeks, middle-class India has been stupefied by the TV circus on movie star Sushant Singh Rajput’s death. But it’s now time to pause the politically manufactured TV drama. After weeks of vacuous voyeurism, it’s time for genuine anger.

A 19-year-old Dalit woman from Hathras was brutally assaulted and languished in hospital for two weeks. Not immediately shifted to emergency care, she died of her terrible wounds. The police took over her body, transported it to her village and conducted an immediate late-night cremation, refusing to let the family even see her. Astoundingly, police rushed her to the cremation ground and burnt her at 2 AM as if she was nothing but a pile of “evidence” to be destroyed. She burnt in a lonely pyre, her mother still weeping for a last glimpse of her daughter. Could this atrocious cremation have ever been forced on upper castes?

We can call it an ‘encounter cremation’, parallel to an encounter killing, aimed to destroy evidence and bury justice. Police burnt not only the victim’s body but Lady Justice herself.

In sharp contrast, after Sushant Singh Rajput’s death, a range of top federal agencies from ED, CBI to even NCB — generally tasked with investigating large-scale narcotics trafficking — swooped down to examine personal bank accounts and the recreational weed trail. Zealous investigations by these multiple agencies have yielded only three incontrovertible facts so far: the late actor was suffering from depression, was a habitual drug user and as per AIIMS expert, he had committed suicide.

What happened to the Hathras victim is on a different scale altogether. She was educated only up to Class III, lived with her parents hemmed in by social exclusion among a small group of very poor Valmiki Dalit families in a Thakur dominated village. They have little social contact with upper castes and are routinely shunned. On September 14, while collecting fodder for animals, the girl was dragged into a field, violently assaulted, her spinal cord was severely injured, and her tongue slashed. Paralysed, disrobed and bleeding, she lay in the field. Her devastated parents rushed to file a complaint but were turned away from the local kotwali. They then took her to Aligarh, finally admitting her to Delhi’s Safdarjung hospital. For eight days, the local police refused to even register rape charges and a top UP official initially called the crime “fake news”.

However, our people are more interested in following the death of a bollywood actor. Women die gory deaths, but it’s the death of a successful male actor which becomes primetime focus. That bastion of sarkari feminism — NCW — jumped into action over the complaints voiced by actor Kangana Ranaut over BMC actions on her property. Cases filed in High Court on how can Kangana be called ‘haramkhor’, while on other hand, heinous crime is committed and life of a young girl is lost. Union minister Ramdas Athawale — a former fiery Dalit Panther — has rushed to Ranaut’s defence. Neither the NCW nor Athawale were immediately heard on the Hathras victim. After all, Dalits are not ‘people like us’, a poor Valmiki family has no TRP potential and brutal attacks on women have been horribly normalised. Who cares if yet another unknown woman is torn apart and left to die? Let’s focus on the thrilling novelty of a celebrity actor’s death instead.

But if we remain sunk in escapist fantasies, we will only harm ourselves. While we can demand administrative accountability, professional policing and destruction of caste prejudice, etc., it is our idiocy that they will play with. Politicians know exactly what people are interested in -they know that citizens are not interested in sinking economy, crime against women, rising unemployment, hostile neighbours, rampant corruptions etc. Politicians know that diverting attention is easy, by switching to some juicy bollywood story. No uncomfortable/unsavoury questions on any of the above topic will then be asked.

Unless we raise above bollywood fantasy, celebrity crush, following tidbits of tinsel world and start understanding the reality around us, we will be continuously used by politicians for their political gains.

What is more worrisome than coronavirus?

Did you know why the Indian lockdowns have created so much human suffering, even though we did relatively well on the Covid case numbers, atleast initially? Why is ours the only major country in the world where citizens walked hundreds of kilometres home, going hungry and being lathicharged and tear gassed by the police? Or why is our government unable to provide a large fiscal support package like dozens of countries across the world?  The answer, which you may not like to hear, is this: We are poor and do not value human lives.

Despite all our past glory, the “potential” India has, the love you have for your country, that answer won’t change. We don’t have money. Our people are poor. Our government is poor and have large number of mouths to feed. Hence, when we carry out a lockdown like Europe or the US, we suffer more. For them, the lockdown creates an itch. For us, we bleed.

We might find it convenient to blame the coronavirus for our current woes, but if we are totally honest about it, the lockdown hit us harder because we are poor. And we are poor not because of corona in 2020, but for all that we have been doing for the last decade or two. We have played identity politics, attempted a misplaced socialism, never bothered to control the spiralling population and gone after India’s entrepreneurial zeal with a butcher’s knife, gouging whatever we can out of it. A noted Indian billionaire once told me – India is poor because we are habituated to being poor. It’s true, we almost seem to love it.

Our morality or value systems are at the heart of this problem. Hence the solution lies not in recommending policy measures – which plenty of well-meaning Indian experts are doing – but in attacking the obsolete, idiotic and self-harming beliefs that are keeping our nation poor. I am not really sure about the origins of our current values, but here is what Indians implicitly classify as good and bad.

First, the bad: Chasing money is bad. People who chase money are bad. People who chase the good life are bad (tax good hotels and air tickets like crazy). People who consume are bad. People who want new phones, new cars, new clothes are bad. People who drink wine or beer are bad (tax the living hell out of them). People who want to become rich are bad (assume they are all black money hoarding crooks). People who like air-conditioning are bad.

Second, population growth. While our government talks about two child policy, we never enforce same. Well, we do not want to antagonize people sentiments and also, remember they are our vote banks. In fact, we ensure they do not get educated as well, else they may question our policies.

Here’s what we think is good: Living a simple life (and hence GDP contracting, consumption reducing behaviour is great), respecting elders (including their obsolete ideas about India, which kept it abysmally poor), being proud of your religious or caste identity (and therefore focussing on it over anything else in elections), letting the government regulate and take care of everything (particularly those business guys who are all bad and therefore a sarkari babu needs to control them) and worshipping politicians like leaders of religious cults (and therefore not holding them accountable).

With this mindset, where we neither understand nor celebrate wealth creation; where we allow the government to finger, control and dominate all businesses and where we let Hindu-Muslim issues become the most important issue, a nation can never prosper. Not that India does not have money, just that we do not have to spend on improving our depleting/over burdened health care or infrastructure.

The current lockdown is a great chance to reflect on what we did wrong, not just during corona time, but in the decade or two preceding it. It is not vulgar to pursue being rich. It is vulgar to see hungry labourers walking for days with little kids on their heads. It is not good for the government to control businesses. It simply kills wealth creation and makes foreign investors run away to other places where they are respected and cared for.

Believe it or not, India is not the centre of the universe. The world will move on and go about its business. It is up to India to now go and bring in investments in the post-Covid world. They won’t come from Incredible India posters or Make in India ads. They will come if we truly create a change in our mindset, which then reflects in our wealth creating policies and behaviours.

We have to say it “It was sickening to be so poor that we couldn’t handle an outbreak of a disease with dignity.” We have to accept: Money may not be everything in life, but it is pretty darn important – for an individual or for a nation.

In the post-corona phase our economy won’t just slow down, it will be a total mess. The good news is the rest of the world will be in a whirl too. Chaos and disorder can be scary, but it can also create wonderful opportunities.

People want to move out of China. However, it is up to us to cajole, beg, attract and do whatever it takes to bring people here instead of other places. We have to make business free from the clutches of ten-circulars-a-day babus, else nobody will come here.

Corona has taught us a lot of things. Investment in public health, personal hygiene are the obvious ones. However, there is one other big lesson. That it sucks to be poor, particularly during a crisis. Don’t let our obsolete mindsets keep India poor. It is time we shift our national priorities from all the nonsense we focus on to one, and only one goal – making India rich.

Money in isolation will not solve problems but having money will.

Where have we lost our aspirations?

In a mood of the nation survey reported last month (Jul 2020), the government and the top leadership secured record high ratings. Over 77% of the respondents are happy with the government. Ratings on the government’s handling of key issues — coronavirus, China, Ram temple, Article 370 — are excellent.

Many experts were left scratching their heads about what exactly is going on. At a time when an already weak economy is in a tailspin due to Covid-19, there isn’t even a ripple of dissatisfaction, at least according to this survey. So what happened to the theory that people ultimately want jobs and growth?

Many experts attribute the survey results to an almost a cult-like, blind following of Modi. That is not true. All the experts are missing a crucial point. That is, we are simply not that economically aspirational anymore and/or do not have an alternative. The assumption that Indians ultimately want jobs and growth is massively flawed. The truth is that we do need jobs and growth, but we care about other things a lot more. How is that possible? How can a society not want growth, a better standard of living and more money?

To understand why this is the case, let’s go back to the 1980s. Per capita incomes of India then were around $300, translating to less than $1/day. Life becomes a dread at that low level of income. Even food security becomes an issue. In 1991, we liberalised the economy to get a bailout from the IMF. At that time, India had aspirations, as we were really poor. What followed was a period of massive growth and development, with everyone working hard for the next 25 years. Per capita incomes shot up to $2,000, translating to $5.5/day. It’s still not a lot of money (the developed world is at $60,000 annual per capita, or $165/day. China is at $27/day). However, $5.5/day is a lot more than $1/day, which is how Indians used to live. $5.5/day means good food is no longer an issue. Local Indian food, whichever region you are in, is affordable and seriously delicious. A plate of chhole bhature in the north, or ghee dosas in the south cost much less than a dollar. Ditto for vada pav in Maharashtra and kachoris in Rajasthan.

Another cheap item is 4G data. Almost every Indian can afford several gigabytes a month, opening up a magical world on people’s phones for just a few cents a day. From WhatsApp groups to online shopping to porn to video games to movies, data for Indians is frankly ecstasy. $5.5/day also means you can buy clothes, afford travel by taxi (AC preferably), have the occasional outing and even have a roof on your head. What is the need for growth, really?

The Indian social structure and culture also puts relatively low pressure for people to keep rising higher and higher. Yes, people want a job, but a ‘choti-moti naukri’ is okay. Buy a car? Well, it would be nice, but autos are also okay, right?

Indians have also culturally shunned materialism. Staying content, living with less is appreciated. The Chinese and Americans, for example, have far more hunger to rise up in life and make more money. I am not judging which lifestyle is better, but to grow, you need a population which has a fire in its belly. We, frankly, don’t. We are quite happy — and who is to judge?

Indians may want jobs, but it is okay if your brother has a job and you don’t – because brother will support us. Indians don’t ask kids to leave home at 18, in fact, staying with your parents at 28 or even 48 is okay, maybe even encouraged. Where is the need for more then?

Indians aspired and achieved per capita income growth, and then suddenly shifted priorities. Things became comfortable, and now Indians want to focus on other important issues. Ensuring past Hindu injustices get sorted, solving Bollywood cases, making temples, nationalism — we think these things are far more important than growth. What’s more, we have a government that’s so responsive to exactly these priorities. What’s not to love about it?

Where will all this lead us? Like I said, who are we to judge, if people don’t want growth? If people are happy with $5.5/day, or don’t mind going to $4/day but have some social agendas sorted, then it’s their choice. However, there will be some issues. Current income levels are not enough for good healthcare, education and infrastructure.

Indian politicians understood this shift in mindset of Indians quite well. And used it to their advantage. Lot of TV soaps were offered, apart from more news channels (some noisy ones too who are sort of quasi judiciary ‘Trial by Media’), more OTT platforms - to ensure that people do not start to think and become aspirational again. Basically keep them occupied.

Countries like Australia and Sweden aren’t exactly super aspirational or growth hungry. However, they are already at a high income level. They have excellent health, education and infrastructure. Without growth, we will never have that. Our standard of living also won’t rise further. Our youth will remain in low-end jobs. We will become a nation of clerks, support staff and low-level employees.

However, we will always have ghee dosa. Try them with coconut chutney, tomato chutney, pudina chutney & hot sambar. You will forget economic woes, I promise.

Main factor hindering growth of India

I had blogged in past on, does population growth leads to corruption growth? And I had concluded it stating, population growth should be used as a factor for development. That blog was in 2013, and I was probably naïve then. Now when I look back post my recent visit to US, I am seriously questioning my own belief of 2013.

Every nook and corner of India is a clear display of increasing population. Whether you are in a metro station, airport, railway station, road, highway, bus stop, hospital, shopping mall, market, temple, or even in a social/ religious gathering, we see all these places are overcrowded at any time of the day. This is a clear indication of overpopulation in the country.

According to the 2017 revision of World Population Prospects, the population of India was at 1,324,171,354. This is the second most populous country of the world after China and the various studies have projected that India will be world’s number-1 populous country, surpassing China, by 2024. It is expected to become the first political entity in history to be home to more than 1.5 billion people by 2030, and its population is set to reach 1.7 billion by 2050. This, inspite of the fact that the population policies, family planning and welfare programmes undertaken by the Govt. of India.

Causes of Over Population

The two main common causes leading to over population in India are:

• The birth rate is still higher than the death rate. We have been successful in declining the death rates but the same cannot be said for birth rates.
• The fertility rate due to the population policies and other measures has been falling but even then it is much higher compared to other countries.

The above causes are interrelated to the various social issues in our country which are leading to over population.

• Poverty and Illiteracy: Another factor for the rapid growth of population is poverty. Impoverished families have this notion that more the number of members in the family, more will be the numbers to earn income. Some feel that more children are needed to look after them in their old age. Also hunger can be cause of death of their children and hence the need for more children. Strange but true, Indian still lag behind the use of contraceptives and birth control methods. Many of them are not willing to discuss or are totally unaware about them. Illiteracy is thus another cause of over population
• Age old cultural norm: Sons are the bread earners of the families in India. This age old thought puts considerable pressure on the parents to produce children till a male child is born. More the better.
• Illegal migration: Last but not the least, we cannot ignore the fact that illegal migration is continuously taking place from Bangladesh, Nepal leading to increased population density.

Effects of Over Population

Even after 71 years of independence, the scenario of our country is not good, due to over population. Some major impacts of high population are as follows:

• Density: India has 382 persons per sq.km as against 33.27 persons per sq.km in US, which is alarmingly 11+ times. Imagine 11 persons standing in a space of 1 person.
• Unemployment: Generating employment for a huge population in a country like India is very difficult. The number of illiterate persons increases every year. Unemployment rate is thus showing an increasing trend.
• Manpower utilisation: The number of jobless people is on the rise in India due to economic depression and slow business development and expansion activities.
• Pressure on infrastructure: Development of infrastructural facilities is unfortunately not keeping pace with the growth of population. The result is lack of transportation, communication, housing, education, healthcare etc. There has been an increase in the number of slums, overcrowded houses, traffic congestion etc.
• Resource utilization & Inflation: Land areas, water resources, forests are over exploited. There is also scarcity of resources. Food production and distribution have not been able to catch up with the increasing population and hence the costs of production have increased. Inflation is the major consequence of over population.
• Inequitable income distribution: In the face of an increasing population, there is an unequal distribution of income and inequalities within the country widen.
• Corruption & Crime: Inflation and corruption grows hand in hand, when demand is more than supply. Law & order continue to collapse, for government can enforce only so much, and with so much population, all sort of crimes –small, medium, big all thrive.

Steps to Control Population in India

The Government of India, politicians, policy makers should initiate a bold and strong population policy so that the economic growth of the country can keep pace with the demands of a growing population. Major steps which have been already implemented but still need to be emphasised more to control population. Increasing the welfare and status of women and girls, spread of education, increasing awareness for the use of contraceptives and family planning methods, sex education, encouraging male sterilisation and spacing births, free distribution of contraceptives and condoms among the poor, encouraging female empowerment, more health care centres for the poor, to name a few, can play a major role in controlling population.

India’s strengths in the global world in various fields cannot be ignored, whether in science & technology, medicine and health care, business and industry, military, communication, entertainment, literature and many more.

Failure of democracy

Whatever may have been the vision of India’s founding fathers, Indian democracy has not lived up to their expectations. As a matter of fact, it has done far worse. Let us face the fact, all one sees in India is opposition to anything and everything. There is a latin phrase when converted means, “Man proposes, God disposes”, however in case of India, it is of “Government proposes, opposition disposes”. For everything that is proposed, there are opposition and eventually the proposal is either watered down or not taken forward. If Congress party is in power and proposes something, then BJP in opposition will oppose, and if BJP is in power, then Congress will oppose. The name of party in power changes, be it in central or state, but the role seldom change.

Additionally, there are delays in execution of every social welfare project, either bureaucratic or due to opposition. So, by the time any social welfare project is eventually completed, the world would have moved forward and the outcome of the project becomes inadequate.

Democracy is good, where everyone is consulted and decisions are to be taken in the best interest of the country & its people, but it is important to have:

a.       Right set of persons at helm of affair,

b.      Decisions are expedited and

c.       Actions are executed on faster pace.

Only if these happens, then people will be able to see the effect of it.

Vote bank politics

While above is absolute must, the truth is far from this. And if we think of the basic reason for above not happening, then it is largely attributed to vote bank politics. In the current scenario, vote bank politics has become a method to exploit the prejudiced emotions of masses either in name of religion, caste, rich vs poor and cater more votes.

Here politicians see people as votes for them, and do not want to initiate any actions or projects that may deprive them of votes. Measure to controlling population could be one of them –they fear losing votes of communities that are not in favour of population control. So growth be damned, politicians only want to remain in power and enjoy the perks of same without caring to implement projects/plans that will country to course correct & grow.

Conclusion

For India to really grow and be seen as developed nation, couple of bold and strong steps needs to be taken:

1. Control population –if need be, implement one child per family. Bring down the population from 1.3 Billion to under 1 Billion. If this can be done by 2030, then it will be wonderful.
2. Develop infrastructure at faster pace –More metros, more highways, coastal roads, widening of current roads etc. are urgently needed. If this means, few set of people will be disrupted due to construction activities, then so be it.
3. President rule –The parliamentarian form of government whereby people elect the government and its head is not helping due to vote bank politics. If President rule will help, then let us get it done.

Hilarious experience with ‘Kaatru Veliyidai’

While I had watched hundreds of films, probably thousands in my life, watching Kaatru Veliyidai has been the most hilarious experience ever. There were high expectations from the film, coming from the stable of Mani Ratnam & A R Rahman, who are two of my favourite film industry persons in Tamil film industry & their films/combination are always classic for me. And I had not missed watching any of Mani Ratnam’s film so far, even if some of them had not lived up to the expectations that they had set for themselves.

This film had released on 14^th April and I wanted to watch it in theater to get the feel & enjoy the experience. Decided to watch 7:30 PM show couple of days later in Mumbai suburb theater. Plans were all in place, went to theater, bought ticket and entered the cinema hall on time. The cinema hall was largely empty, with probably not more than 15-20 persons. By the time I entered the screen/hall, national anthem was getting over and the next image that came on screen was of Censor board certificate for the film. This was followed by the mandatory anti-tobacco video clip/message, gory and gut wrenching. So, I thought I am on time for the film, took a comfortable seat at back and sat down to watch the film.

The film started with Hero sitting in a seat somewhere in Kashmir reacting to a TV news, with his team and heroine commenting on hero’s views. Thought this is the opening scene of film, however, one scene after another followed with hero arguing with heroine, heroine walking off, hero going behind her to pacify her, couple of nicely pictured songs etc. Cut in between, scenes of hero trying to escape from Pakistan, chase sequence, hero returning to India, getting heroes worship etc, went on. And I kept thinking, there may be either flashback scenes or hero/heroine will break-up and story moving forward. But not to be, and in about 60-70 minutes, hero searches the heroine and patches up with her. I was still thinking & waiting for an interval block, to take the film to 2^nd half. However, it is not to be and the screen suddenly mentioned END, and title cards started rolling.

It was still dark theater, with no lights getting switched on either. And I was still sitting in my seat, wondering what happened and what am I supposed to do now. After couple of minutes, when it was clear that the film has indeed ended, and there is no more interval block or suspense and no 2^nd half to look forward to, got up from my seat and made my way out of the hall/screen. And here I was, out of the theater premises & was on the mall floor.

Started walking towards mall exit, thinking now on whether I had come later for the movie and started watching the 2^nd half, probably a 6:00 PM movie, for which I had come in at 7:30 PM. And decided to check the show for next day and come in on time and watch the film properly. Then, thought to myself, let me check the ticket about the show timing. There it went, it was written 7:30 PM show. And I had walked in at 7:30 PM only, that means, I was not late and it was clear then that the theater guys had played 2^nd half first, rather than 1^st half.

Decided to confront the theater guys and walked back to the theater. Thankfully, I was not too far away from the theater and had just about exited the mall. The security at the entrance was clueless and he did not know what to answer for my points about 2^nd half played first etc.. However, another guy from the multiplex theater office walked out and listened to what I had to say. Took me inside and asked questions to couple of their staff. He then came out and explained stating that, their operator had goofed up in playing the cassette of the film and played 2^nd half first. He then refunded the price of ticket in cash.

Now, while it was easy for him to refund, I was in dilemma and what to do next:

·         Should I look for another day (probably the next day itself) to watch the film?

·         Do I have the mind strength to watch the film again, what with having the seen the 2^nd half already?

·         How would I manage to come to theatre by 7:30 PM, what with next day being a working day?

The week has gone by since then, and the film is not running in Mumbai in 2^nd week now. So, no way to watch the film in a theater over the weekend and eventually, not watching the film –may go on to watch the film when its DVD gets released. Though, there are regrets on this count, the experience of watching the 2^nd half first and walking out confused is an experience that I will remember probably for life.

Amazing & hilarious experience it is, for sure!!

Meaning of life

Why blogging? Why now? Some may ask – well, forget the asking part, I still want to give you the answer damn it! The second question has a straightforward answer – my mind is wandering and letting my steam out through blogging. And what better way of achieving that high purpose in life than to immerse this whole wide world in the sea of my thoughts? “Yaam petra inbam peruga ivvaiyagam” - Let this world bequeath the pearls of my wisdom.

Come to think of it, what is the purpose of life?! Isn’t the purpose to live that very life? Which in its most trivial form is to kill time? Are we not living for the sake of living, till death takes us away. Wow, I guess I have inadvertently stumbled upon perhaps the greatest revelation in life that people have been searching for all over the place for ages together!

‘The calling from the inside’ – is what I would like to call the subject matters or rather the content of these blogs. Over the years, this calling has gone unanswered. I remember those numerous occasions when I wanted to vent out the steam from the conference room or those lobbies lined with cubicles. Those moments when I was at the receiving end of those endless words of advice. I kept hoping that I will get answers, but I remain confused, inspite of talking to many. Some find it silly and some believe these are wasteful thoughts. What about those life changing ideas that my brain dares to conceive? Or just those colorful pastures of my dream land? Where do I paint them all? Right here in my blogs!! For those who want more variety, don’t you worry, you will get them all, if not already through my previous blogs.

As I sit, believing that I have it in me to be the next big thing in the writing world, I realize its about time I dove in. I do have a penchant for writing you see, which may or may not be much appreciated in this morbid world. But that’s beside the point. After all, it’s my birth right to express my thoughts on anything and everything. And being born in the world’s largest socialist republic, it would be injustice if I don’t give form to that very right. So world, I remain what I am and will write whatever random thoughts that occupy my mind. For now, I can live with your hats, the brick bats be saved!

Who really killed Kingfisher Airlines & made Vijay Mallya a 'willful' defaulter?

A big article on who killed Kingfisher Airlines and made Vijay Mallya the fallen guy. This was sourced from Internet. But could not disagree on the content. Hence, reproducing same.

Everybody, even most of my learned friends want Vijay Mallya arrested. They say he had fun at the cost of Public Money, he should be punished. They say he is a fraud, he lives a rich and luxurious life, while not paying salaries to his staff and not paying his lenders and vendors.

Who killed Kingfisher Airlines? Have you given a thought? As a citizen of India you should know. As an entrepreneur you should definitely know this. I am sharing below a sequence of media reports from the days of the fall of KingFisher Airlines began. I hope to construct the sequence right, so that you can understand how it was killed. and by whom.. A little, backdrop would be, if you recall, or perhaps can google to verify my statement, Most Airlines across the world were doing bad those days. Many were in the verge of collapse.

 economictimes

You may note Jet Airways stocks had plunged around the same time in Jan 2012.

You may notice, Kingfisher was doing better than Jet Airways.

Kingfisher desperately had to infuse funds and this was the best thing Vijay Mallya and his team could have done.

It was very well placed. But what went wrong?

It appeared to be a done deal, what went wrong?

Not just me, everybody seem to think / say so... then.

It was obviously not similar thoughts towards Jet Airways.. then.. what went wrong?

Same SBI had hopes on Kingfisher Airlines.. then..

This is the beginning..

Government agency thinks contrary to Market and Banks... why?

Kingfisher Airlines team does, what any serious enterprise does..

Why is Kingfisher targeted, while all Indian Airlines were in similar situation then?

Why stop an Airlines from flying?

How will an enterprise pay salaries, when agency meant to support the player is keeping it away from raising funds..

Does this help you understand better, what happened?

Its important to understand the share holder details of Jet, particularly, foreign and Indian Share holders.

Note the percentage of General Public & Foreign promoters as share holders in Kingfisher.

Note the general public in Jet Airways and also foreign promoters.

Etihad was still interested in Kingfisher and not Jet Airways..

Kingfisher tried things Legally, but what was at play??

Why every possible government machinery tried to scuttle Kingfisher Airlines?

Is this the final nail..??

Etihad comes around and agrees to go with Jet Airways. Anand Sharma was the Commerce Minister.

Then met Finance Minister.. Why, all this to help a company held by majority of foreign promoters?

Why was Indian Government stretching to do this for Jet Airways, while Squeezing Kingfisher Airlines?

This was perhaps the last nail but we know, what else is happening with the (Once) King of Good times..

Who killed Kingfisher Airlines? Who got Vijay Malaya to this state? Who were the beneficiaries? Can an Indian Entrepreneur dare to do things in his own Country again? Will Indian government support her/him, or lead to what happened to Kingfisher Airlines and Vijay Mallya?

I have never had Kingfisher Airlines or any of Vijay Mallya's company shares. I have neither been his Associate nor employee. I am writing this to share with my learned friends, this is the truth I saw. I feel bad for Kingfisher Airlines and Vijay Mallya as an entrepreneur. I don't want such a thing to happen to any entrepreneur.