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The VIP culture in India

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About 20-25 years ago if a journalist wanted to interview a politician(MP) in India, he couldn't do it in Delhi as they had a super busy schedule and they had a full court along with them. All the party members, the bodyguards and hundreds of followers. So they used to meet them on their tours. The main objective of this was that these MPs had a habit of holding a court sessions(seminar) and speak in front of crowds and they would sometimes spill the beans in front of crowds. So they are very much habitual to being pampered, followed treated like royal family above everyone else. In such case what if they are told to remove the red light from their car? Told that even their special cars will be taken away and they have to travel like a common man as other people in India travel which is via trains, metros, buses? They will be flabbergasted at the audacity of such suggestion by a human. They are after all the "MP". Before continuing, I would just like to share a ...

A Nasty Tale: 1

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A teenager, Johnny Fontane in his father's SUV, arrives home after committing a hit-and-run on a pregnant woman. Before Johnny could muster courage to tell his parents about this accident, every local news channel covers this news which states that both the woman and child are dead and her husband swears vengeance. Vito and Caroline Fontane cannot bear to give up their son. Being rich they hire a high profile lawyer and form a plan to have their caretaker Jose take the blame for half a million dollars. The local prosecutor Gleeson Hedge sees through the plan because the investigation reports state that the mirrors were not adjusted for the caretaker. The prosecutor knows that the Fontanes are a very rich family and rather than informing the widower he goes to the defending lawyer. The Fontane's lawyer thinks it is prudent to include the lawyer in the scheme if they want to close the case fast. So the Fontanes lose another half million. Jose sees this and his greed increas...