Karnataka: Daughter of the KPSC Chairman got selected after declaring family’s annual income as ₹40K while her father, the Chairman himself, earns ₹2.17 L a month!
Justice Nagaprasanna tears apart the defence’s arguments!
One of the finest judges Karnataka has ever had! 🔥
Namaste, Ma'am...Aapko 1 story sunata hoon....
In the summer of 1980, a distraught 7th grade boy stood in the courtyard of a modest house in Mylapore, watching his father toss his cricket bat down a deep well. A fast bouncer had shattered the boy's spectacles during a local match & his father, a renowned Sanskrit logician, was terrified for his son's sight.
"Your cricket days are done," his father declared, handing him a violin. "If you want to master precision, master this."
The boy did not throw a tantrum. He directed his focus toward the strings, training until he was performing alongside musical legends, even taking direct corrections from Bharat Ratna M.S. Subbulakshmi.
5 yrs later, he suffered another blow: he failed to clear the IIT-JEE examination.
He did not give up. He enrolled in a regional engineering college, quietly mastering computer science logic gates. He eventually worked his way into IIT Madras as a postgrad researcher, earned a PhD, joined as a prof & eventually became the Director of the very institute that had once turned him away.
By 2011, while the world was building consumer mobile apps, this prof was looking at a hidden national vulnerability: every radar, fighter jet, banking server & defense system in India was running on foreign-designed microprocessors.
He had a single question in his mind: "We can test that a foreign chip does what we WANT it to do. But can we guarantee it does not do something we DO NOT want it to do when a war starts?"
He proposed building a completely indigenous, industrial-grade microprocessor from scratch. Global tech giants insisted it could not be done w/o billions of dollars in infrastructure & massive foreign patents.
He did not care. Working out of cramped labs on long shifts, he & his team adopted the open source RISC-V instruction set. They hand-coded logic gates, mapped silicon layouts & verified billions of instruction cycles.
In July 2018, a tiny 16mm² piece of silicon codenamed Risecreek arrived back at the lab. The team wired it up, flipped the switch & watched a flickering monitor as the Linux operating system booted on 100% Indian-designed silicon for the 1st time in history.
Today, his SHAKTI processor architecture powers everything from defense communications to space grade controllers built in collaboration with ISRO.
That young boy whose father threw his cricket bat down a well...
The student who missed the JEE list in 1985...
The violinist who turned down the official IIT Director's mansion to stay in his family home & protect his late father's Sanskrit library...
His name is Prof. Veezhinathan Kamakoti.
An MLA in my district has set a target for each Mandal Revenue Officer: Rs 30 lakh per month. There are 5 MROs. That is Rs 1.5 crore a month from MROs alone. Rs 18 crore a year. Rs 90 crore over a five-year term. Just from one department.
Now add the Sub-Registrar offices. The PWD contracts. The Health department. Irrigation. Police postings and transfers. Each one has its own monthly target flowing upward. Do the math and you are staring at an MLA generating at least Rs 1,000 crore over a five-year term. A thousand crore. From a single constituency. There are constituencies where it would be a multiple of this.
This is not a public servant. This is a business enterprise.
The economics are straightforward. To win an assembly election in Andhra today, a candidate spends roughly Rs 50 crore. That is the investment. The Rs 1,000 crore over five years is the return. Some of it flows up the chain to party bosses. Some is distributed to supporters. A significant portion is set aside for the next election. And what remains is profit.
The business has its own marketing department. Travel through any constituency in Andhra and the biggest advertisements you see are not for soap or smartphones. They are for the MLA. Massive hoardings wishing him on his birthday. His son's birthday plastered across the town with firecrackers to mark the occasion. His daughter's wedding celebrated like a state event. Every other car has a sticker that says "MLA." His face is on more surfaces than any consumer brand. This is not politics. This is brand building for a franchise.
And here is the part that makes the whole system self-sustaining: vote buying.
During elections, most voters in these constituencies sell their vote for a few thousand rupees. Rs 2,000. Rs 5,000. Sometimes Rs 10,000. It is openly done. Everyone knows. Once you accept that money, something fundamental shifts. You lose any moral or ethical standing to question the MLA on his corruption. You were part of the transaction. You took the upfront payment. He is now collecting the returns on his investment. You cannot complain about the toll when you sold him the road.
This is the behavioral trap that locks the system in place. The voter knows the MLA is corrupt. The MLA knows the voter knows. But the transaction at the time of the election creates a mutual complicity that silences accountability for five years. It is not fear. It is not ignorance. It is moral disarmament through participation. You cannot be the victim of a system you voluntarily entered.
The scale of this is difficult to comprehend. We are not talking about petty corruption. We are not talking about a bureaucrat taking a few thousand rupees to process a file. We are talking about a systematic, industrialized extraction machine that generates thousands of crores per constituency per term. Multiply that across 175 assembly constituencies in Andhra Pradesh alone and you begin to see the magnitude.
And yet no one makes a noise about it.
Not the opposition, because they run the same enterprise when they are in power. Not the media, because the MLA is often the biggest advertiser in the local market. Not the bureaucracy, because the MRO is in on it. Not civil society, because the NGOs need the MLA's goodwill to operate. And not the voters, because they took the money.
The entire ecosystem has reached an equilibrium where corruption is not a deviation from the system. It is the system. The MLA is not a corrupt politician. He is a businessman who invested Rs 50 crore and expects a return. The MRO is not a corrupt officer. He is a franchise operator who pays a monthly fee to keep his posting. The voter is not a victim of corruption. He is a participant who sold his leverage for Rs 5,000.
Today, an MLA generating a thousand crore in a single term barely registers as news. It is not hidden. It is not denied. It is simply accepted, the way you accept that water flows downhill. It is the operating system.
And that acceptance is the most dangerous part. Not the corruption itself, but the complete normalization of it. When a society stops being outraged by extraction on this scale, when it treats a thousand crore in systematic theft as just how things work, it has not just tolerated corruption. It has internalized it. It has made peace with it. And that peace is the hardest thing to undo.
यही चूतियापा मेरी समझ से बाहर है! यह वही बात हुई कि मैंने एक मिनट में 50 थप्पड़ खा लिए, हिला भी नहीं, रिकॉर्ड बन गया है!
तुम्हारे सबसे बड़े नेता को तीन नल्लों ने रात के बारह बजे वीडियो बनाने पर विवश कर दिया और तुम उसके व्यू गिन रहे हो? यह कोई उपलब्धि नहीं है! यह एक संख्या है जिसका कोई विशेष अर्थ नहीं है।
ईश्वर इन मूर्खों को सद्बुद्धि दे! Genius has its limits, idiocy has none.
Arnab makes a terrific point - that he is following social media marketing companies and there’s a money trail.
Influencers with <100k followers are being paid 40-50k per reel and 30k per story. Their books should be examined. Should be brought under PMLA.
@Souuurab@theskindoctor13 Did you really follow protests? Other than asking questions to govt, there was so much other things were going on which were not related to protests at all.
“Modi is a dictator.” Dude, he hasn’t even reached the “D” of dictatorship. Try doing in China, Iran, or the Middle East what you’ve done in Delhi. They’ll give you a real taste of what dictatorship actually looks like. Don’t abuse the leniency!
Prime Minister Modi should be assassinated. If it were up to me, I would do it myself ~ A Peaceful Protestor at CJP Protest
This shows the level of retardation of these cockroaches
Disgusting