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Each day we are welcomed with the flood of reports on leaks from different parts of the world. One is WikiLeaks, which is by a whistle blower non-profit organisation founded by Julian Assange. He or his organisation could not be labelled blackmailers or armtwisters in disseminating the information contained in cables and wires sent by the diplomats the world over. It definitely makes an interesting reading as you get an access to what happens behind the cosmetic cover of the niceties and pleasantries in the diplomatic circles. Some are amusing while some are shockers of their kind. People have a right to know these form, in some cases, a trove of information to the general public. Assange and his team had to face a lot of pressure and were discouraged constantly from revealing the contents of the cables dated till 30 years back. The servers were crashed and there was hacking and he was booked on a petty case and later arrested. Then comes a story akin to a daily soap in the name of Rad...

We have our daily dose of the scams, scandals and the corruption charges. To borrow the word from my friend Srinivas, we have our preoccupation with the GAFLAs(a hindi translation to the word SCAM). So much so that our appetite for the new gaflas is increasing with each passing day and we gratify by reading and knowing about more and more scams happening in this nation. Trust our politicians, they would never let us down. They all would ensure that we do not starve and get disheartened by not giving us something new gafla to read and crib about. What is the end result, is anybody's guess. We write, talk, read, discuss, watch elaborately about the gafla till the time we find someone unearthing a new one from thin air. We hear so much about a particular scam and start counting zeros in the gafla amount. Then we start justifying, based upon our own personal affiliations, leanings and beliefs that this gafla is bigger than the previous ones and so it is worth cribbing about. Then the j...