In the last few months a steady stream of high profile party goers are having a long drawn tea party in India’s and South Asia’s largest prison complex. Some have taken a while to reach the venue, but they have made it, while some more wait in the wings for the invite. A bit like the tea party that would be hosted by the Queen at Buckingham they await for the ‘Queen’s’ order to march to Tihar. Tihar has been home to India’s most notorious criminals and serial killers and is now famously hosting a stream of Ministers, MPs, a prodigal daughter, wheeler-dealers and corporate tycoons.
From Kanimozhi to Amar Singh, the toilet has become a pestilent factor and a primary reason why Amar Singh has now been shifted to the hospital. I think he wanted to escape Tihar’s toilet more than anything or anyone else in this world. What are the luminary’s expectations of the condition of a jail toilet? Are they expecting the same Italian marble flooring and Kohler fittings that they have in their palatial homes?
As the tea party in Tihar continues, one thing is certain. What goes around comes around. Life in prison for these VIPs would have been better, hygienic, safer and a bit more bearable if they had deployed taxpayer resources for the betterment of the constituencies they were responsible for. Had there been cleaner governance or had even 80% of those in the Government did what they were meant to be doing; the effects would have undoubtedly trickled all the way down to Tihar or at Chanchalguda where Janardhan Reddy is taking a bath under the trees. But, for now the price that these people are paying are a result of their own follies. So be it, let the tea party in Tihar continue.
From Kanimozhi to Amar Singh, the toilet has become a pestilent factor and a primary reason why Amar Singh has now been shifted to the hospital. I think he wanted to escape Tihar’s toilet more than anything or anyone else in this world. What are the luminary’s expectations of the condition of a jail toilet? Are they expecting the same Italian marble flooring and Kohler fittings that they have in their palatial homes?
As the tea party in Tihar continues, one thing is certain. What goes around comes around. Life in prison for these VIPs would have been better, hygienic, safer and a bit more bearable if they had deployed taxpayer resources for the betterment of the constituencies they were responsible for. Had there been cleaner governance or had even 80% of those in the Government did what they were meant to be doing; the effects would have undoubtedly trickled all the way down to Tihar or at Chanchalguda where Janardhan Reddy is taking a bath under the trees. But, for now the price that these people are paying are a result of their own follies. So be it, let the tea party in Tihar continue.
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