GOVERNANCE
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Who’s afraid of ‘Vinod Rai’?
Vinod
Rai and Digvijay Singh have raised and responded contrastingly to two
very critical issues directly related to democracy and democratic
accountability
In
the mid-sixties, there was a popular play titled ‘Who’s afraid of
Virginia Woolf’?’, a parody of the song ‘Who’s Afraid of Big Bad Wolf?’
from Walt Disney’s The Three Little Pigs. The story revolves
around two couples trying to suppress certain truths, which to their
consternation manage to come out leading to thunder and fury. In her
writing, Virginia Woolf attempted to reveal the truth. When the couples
sing the song together, they make a mockery of their own fear of the
truth and attempt to project a false image.
The song is a witty joke, but it also represents the very real, though also very petty, fear so common in intellectual circles.
Do we see a parallel in this
with Vinod Rai, the Comptroller and Auditor General, and the present
scenario? Indeed, we should. More than the CAG’s horrid exposure of
humongous scams – Commonwealth Games, 2G Spectrum, Coalgate, to mention a
few – it is what Vinod Rai said in a speech on ‘Social Obligation of
Public Auditors’ at Harvard Kennedy School the other day that saw the
ruling ‘intellectual’ cabal going to town mocking him!...Read More
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