Saturday, December 11, 2010

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SATYAM SCAM
All those of you who love to dream and take what comes your way, as destiny. Imagine the following scenarios .

A class teacher in a school is held responsible for the conduct and performance of the students in his class. When a student is pulled up for disobedience, he not only apologizes for his mistake but also graciously admits to having committed on a regular basis offences like stealing. When the class teacher is about to punish the errant student, the headmaster appears on the scene, shields the student, publicly humiliates the teacher by preventing him from carrying out his duty. Now the question is what will be the status of the teacher in the eyes of the students? Will he ever be able to enforce discipline in the class in such an environment?

Let me bring before you another scene. A pick-pocket is caught red-handed stealing. Passers-by thrash him. The culprit for obvious reasons begs pardon, takes out a five rupee note from his shirt pocket saying that is all he has stolen. It is human nature to let him off with a warning or a few blows. But is it correct? Is it not possible that the culprit if given a sound thrashing will take out the five hundred rupee note hidden in his undergarment.

Now reflect on Satyam episode as reported in the media so far. Taking into account the global recognition that was given to his Company for Corporate Governance and in the light of the treatment meted out to the market regulator - SEBI. Don’t you feel that at the end of the day, some other development will hit the headlines and a small obituary type report may announce the release of Raju and his accomplices, putting an end to the Satyam scam for ever. Satyameva Jayate.