This was an email forwarded to me by my dear friend and brother Ramesh Masthipuram. It was one of the most beautiful and absolutely inspiring mails that I have ever received. The protagonist in the narrative below, embodied the truly indomitable human spirit and also emphasised that it's nothing but the 'will' that makes anybody or anything stronger. Kudos to that spirit. Cheer up and keep it up.
Yes, it is the "institution" that is always supreme rather than the "individual."
The Satyam-Ramalinga Raju saga might well prove this right, yet again.
JUST ANOTHER DIMENSION TO LOOK AT LIFE... MAKES A HUGE IMPACT. TRUTHFULNESS APART, JUST READ ON...
I (SATYAM employee) am deputed at a client location and came across a very interesting conversation in the cafeteria yesterday. One of my co-workers, also deputed with the same client through some lesser-known two-room company, mustered guts to ask me sarcastically in front of the entire team, "So, Satyam is gone! What are you guys planning to do now?" In normal circumstances, I have a habit of not replying to loose talk, but in front of the entire team....I thought I need to fix this guy's thought process. I asked him -- as my military training has imbibed in me the habit of fighting till the last breath -- "Who says Satyam is gone when I am very much alive here and committed to create value on behalf of my company?"
He shot back, "Hello Mr., your chairman has resigned, you guys are facing financial turbulence and you still have a face to say that Satyam is not gone!" At this juncture, I thought of replying to this guy in his own language. I asked him, "Tell me, what will you do and where will you go if our country India was not there?" He was not prepared for this level of thought and asked back, "What a stupid question! How can India be gone, it is a country?"
I asked him back, "Country! What makes a country? Land? Economy? Our Prime Minister? Our President? Our Geography? Or the PEOPLE? If our PM resigns, will you say India is gone? If our economy faces a slowdown, will you say India is gone? But yes, if the people of a country are lost for any reason, we may say that country has no meaning. Who cares of vast land of Antarctica today which has just one permanent resident, Father Georgy? Which country does it belong to? Why does it not have any government? Why does it not have any economy? Or, how many countries were there when humans used to hunt for food in pre-historic times? Countries, Wealth, Infrastructure and booming economies are nothing but creations of efforts of PEOPLE, and they do not have any existance on their own."
And the final blow was, "When one man can create SATYAM as an organization of 53,000 people, why cannot 53,000 committed people rebuild one SATYAM?"
HIGHLY INSPIRING, ISN'T IT?
Saturday, 24 January 2009
Friday, 23 January 2009
Annoyed YSR pulls up top cop
Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy is annoyed, first with the state police top brass and next with some of his own staff. For, their "inaction" has caused much embarrassment to his government and also let the opposition parties attack him personally in the Satyam Computers scandal. With news doing rounds in New Delhi that the top cops in the state were going rather slow on the Satyam scandal and also with opposition parties in the state mounting criticism that he was trying to shield Satyam ex-chief B Ramalinga Raju, the Chief Minister reportedly gave an earful to the state Director General of Police and other top brass of the police. Besides, the Chief Minister also reportedly pulled up his own principal secretary Jannat Hussain for not immediately translating his words into action on the case against Ramalinga Raju, highly-placed official sources said. The Chief Minister has now directed the DGP to go ahead with the case "in full steam" and nail the accused. "A two-day delay in the state police swinging into action in the case had done a lot of damage to the state and caught the Chief Minister in a defensive position. Later, the Chief Minister was forced to do a lot of answering on the issue which was otherwise avoidable," the sources pointed out. It was on January 7 that Ramalinga Raju admitted to fraud in Satyam Computers and the same afternoon the Chief Minister, who was camping in New Delhi, announced that the state Crime Investigation Department would launch a probe into the case. However, a clear two days have elapsed till the CID was actually asked to take up the investigation into the case. This, official sources said, was a lapse on part of the Chief Minister's principal secretary in charge of law and order affairs. By the time, there were too many adverse reports in the media that the state government was going slow on the probe as the Chief Minister and his son Jagan Mohan Reddy had "vested interests" in Satyam as well as its sister concern Maytas. The opposition too lost no time in launching a vitriolic attack against the Chief Minister as well as the government on the Satyam issue, leaving Rajasekhara Reddy embarrassed. Upon his return from Chennai on January 9, the Chief Minister gave just "half-an-hour" to the DGP to "go and arrest" Ramalinga Raju. Again, the police took more than three hours to execute the Chief Minister's Order. Besides, the Chief Minister was reportedly not properly briefed about the arrest and the basis for it. This made him announce that Raju and his brother were arrested based on Ramalinga's letter to the Satyam Board of Directors. This too left the Chief Minister furious as the fact was different. The entire issue also exposed yet again the growing "ego clashes and groupism" and also the lack of co-ordination among the top ranks of state police. This was said to be one reason why the state police additional DGP and official spokesman A K Khan remained in communicado since the arrest of Raju brothers and no authentic information was communicated to the media on the case. "This led to a lot of speculation in the media on the whole issue related to the police and battered the image of the state. This angered the Chief Minister forcing him to pull up the DGP," a top-ranking official in the Chief Minister's Office said on condition of anonymity.
Monday, 12 January 2009
Logical questions, tricky answers!
Desaraju Surya
Hyderabad: "Satyam" (truth) lies clearly buried in the Ramalinga Raju saga.
Was Ramalinga Raju, along with his brother Rama Raju, "picked up" by the police or did the brothers "give themselves up?" What formed the basis for their "arrest?" Why were the Rajus "hidden" from the media and why was there a two-day delay in CID taking up the Satyam Computers financial scandal case for investigation? Was there any attempt to bail out the Rajus? While there are contradicting answers for some of these questions, there are no answers for some other.
The police said something about Ramalinga Raju's "arrest" while state Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy revealed something else. There is also no coherence between what the police claimed and what the Chief Minister spoke on what basis has Raju indeed been arrested.
Moreover, the two-day delay in the Crime Investigation Department swinging into action has not only invited sharp criticism from opposition parties but has also left enough room for doubt over the actual motive.
The Chief Minister said today that he was informed by the state Director General of Police S S P Yadav around 9 pm on Friday that a team of CID sleuths has been dispatched to "pick up" Ramalinga Raju from his house.
But, events on Friday night told a different story. Ramalinga Raju and his brother Rama Raju drove in a convoy of luxury cars to the State Police Headquarters to submit themselves before the DGP. Police immediately claimed that the Raju brothers were "arrested."
Around 1 am that night, CID Inspector General (Economic Offences Wing) V S K Kaumudi told a frenzied media group – his statement was, of course, not clearly audible – that the ex-bosses of Satyam Computers were arrested when they came to the Police Headquarters.
Kaumudi also explained that the arrest was based on a complaint lodged by a Satyam investor under various sections of the Indian Penal Code.
But the Chief Minister announced today that it was a suo moto action on part of the police based on the "confessional letter" written by Ramalinga Raju to the Satyam Computers Board.
Interestingly, around 9.15 pm on Friday, the so-called police spokesman A K Khan, who is of the rank of Additional DGP, denied any case has been registered against the Rajus and the CID was "merely enquiring" into the Satyam affair. Subsequently, he remained in communicado while other top police brass refused to take any calls. "Contact the police spokesman," was their constant refrain.
It was on January 7 that Ramalinga Raju came out with disclosure of a mind-boggling Rs 7800 crore financial bungling in Satyam Computers. The same afternoon, Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, camping in New Delhi, announced that the CID would take up investigation into the Satyam case.
But the CID was formally asked to take up the case only on January 9, a clear two days after the scandal saw the light.
Things, however, moved at a brisk pace on Friday even as the Chief Minister camped in Chennai.
The state DGP held a top-level meeting with the CID Additional DGP A Sivanarayana and IG (EOW) V S K Kaumudi and chalked out the course of action. Immediately thereafter the DGP briefed the state Chief Secretary P Ramakanth Reddy about the police plan and subsequently the matter was conveyed to the Chief Minister who returned in the evening. And, around 9.30 pm the Rajus were "arrested." The Chief Minister, however, flatly denied there was any "delay" in launching police action against the tainted Rajus. CID officials, on their part, maintained that they swung into action as soon as they got necessary "directions" from the government.
Of course, the directions came two days late as was obvious.
The police took all pains to shield Ramalinga Raju from the prying media.
"Why was Raju hidden from the media," the Chief Minister was asked.
As is his wont, Rajasekhara Reddy did not care to answer this query.
Hyderabad: "Satyam" (truth) lies clearly buried in the Ramalinga Raju saga.
Was Ramalinga Raju, along with his brother Rama Raju, "picked up" by the police or did the brothers "give themselves up?" What formed the basis for their "arrest?" Why were the Rajus "hidden" from the media and why was there a two-day delay in CID taking up the Satyam Computers financial scandal case for investigation? Was there any attempt to bail out the Rajus? While there are contradicting answers for some of these questions, there are no answers for some other.
The police said something about Ramalinga Raju's "arrest" while state Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy revealed something else. There is also no coherence between what the police claimed and what the Chief Minister spoke on what basis has Raju indeed been arrested.
Moreover, the two-day delay in the Crime Investigation Department swinging into action has not only invited sharp criticism from opposition parties but has also left enough room for doubt over the actual motive.
The Chief Minister said today that he was informed by the state Director General of Police S S P Yadav around 9 pm on Friday that a team of CID sleuths has been dispatched to "pick up" Ramalinga Raju from his house.
But, events on Friday night told a different story. Ramalinga Raju and his brother Rama Raju drove in a convoy of luxury cars to the State Police Headquarters to submit themselves before the DGP. Police immediately claimed that the Raju brothers were "arrested."
Around 1 am that night, CID Inspector General (Economic Offences Wing) V S K Kaumudi told a frenzied media group – his statement was, of course, not clearly audible – that the ex-bosses of Satyam Computers were arrested when they came to the Police Headquarters.
Kaumudi also explained that the arrest was based on a complaint lodged by a Satyam investor under various sections of the Indian Penal Code.
But the Chief Minister announced today that it was a suo moto action on part of the police based on the "confessional letter" written by Ramalinga Raju to the Satyam Computers Board.
Interestingly, around 9.15 pm on Friday, the so-called police spokesman A K Khan, who is of the rank of Additional DGP, denied any case has been registered against the Rajus and the CID was "merely enquiring" into the Satyam affair. Subsequently, he remained in communicado while other top police brass refused to take any calls. "Contact the police spokesman," was their constant refrain.
It was on January 7 that Ramalinga Raju came out with disclosure of a mind-boggling Rs 7800 crore financial bungling in Satyam Computers. The same afternoon, Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, camping in New Delhi, announced that the CID would take up investigation into the Satyam case.
But the CID was formally asked to take up the case only on January 9, a clear two days after the scandal saw the light.
Things, however, moved at a brisk pace on Friday even as the Chief Minister camped in Chennai.
The state DGP held a top-level meeting with the CID Additional DGP A Sivanarayana and IG (EOW) V S K Kaumudi and chalked out the course of action. Immediately thereafter the DGP briefed the state Chief Secretary P Ramakanth Reddy about the police plan and subsequently the matter was conveyed to the Chief Minister who returned in the evening. And, around 9.30 pm the Rajus were "arrested." The Chief Minister, however, flatly denied there was any "delay" in launching police action against the tainted Rajus. CID officials, on their part, maintained that they swung into action as soon as they got necessary "directions" from the government.
Of course, the directions came two days late as was obvious.
The police took all pains to shield Ramalinga Raju from the prying media.
"Why was Raju hidden from the media," the Chief Minister was asked.
As is his wont, Rajasekhara Reddy did not care to answer this query.
Ramalinga Raju's game plan
Desaraju Surya
Hyderabad: It was a smart move to dodge the long arm of the law on part of the disgraced Satyam Computers' ex-chief B Ramalinga Raju to "submit himself" before the Crime Investigation Department officials here. In the process, however, he committed yet another grave offence by evading the SEBI authorities, legal experts point out. The SEBI summoned Ramalinga Raju to appear in person before its investigating officials and present the records related to the Satyam scandal. By sending his lawyer on behalf to the SEBI investigating team, Ramalinga Raju violated provisions of the SEBI Act, 1992, by which he has now become liable for a one-year jail term and a fine of Rs one crore, legal sources said. "His lawyer can appear only before the Appellate Tribunal and not the investigating authorities," they added. Had he appeared before the SEBI investigating team, Raju would have escaped arrest as the SEBI Act has no provision for arrest of a person. But, Raju chose to get "arrested" by the police and get charged under various provisions of the Indian Penal Code in what is being described by legal luminaries as a "legal match-fixing." "Now that he has been arrested and charged under the Indian Penal Code, Raju has secured immunity for himself from possible extradition to the United States where too he is facing criminal charges. Similarly, under what is known as 'double jeopardy' he can escape prosecution by any other agency as law bars prosecution of an accused twice for a same crime," leading lawyer Bhuvanagiri Chandrasekhar pointed out. "By surrendering before the police, Ramalinga Raju has purchased the liberty from facing billion dollar questions, that were to be answered, from various other quarters. In a way the government has saved him from the SEBI and also from extradition to the US," Chandrasekhar added. However, Ramalinga Raju could be convicted and awarded a life-term in jail under Section 409 of IPC. This could be a distant possibility as charges under the Section are tried by a magistrate who can award a jail term of only three years. "As per Section 409 of Criminal Procedure Code, a sessions court may suo moto withdraw the case from a magistrate court and try and punish an accused under 409 IPC and award a life-term. But such things have seldom happened so far," Chandrasekhar noted.
Hyderabad: It was a smart move to dodge the long arm of the law on part of the disgraced Satyam Computers' ex-chief B Ramalinga Raju to "submit himself" before the Crime Investigation Department officials here. In the process, however, he committed yet another grave offence by evading the SEBI authorities, legal experts point out. The SEBI summoned Ramalinga Raju to appear in person before its investigating officials and present the records related to the Satyam scandal. By sending his lawyer on behalf to the SEBI investigating team, Ramalinga Raju violated provisions of the SEBI Act, 1992, by which he has now become liable for a one-year jail term and a fine of Rs one crore, legal sources said. "His lawyer can appear only before the Appellate Tribunal and not the investigating authorities," they added. Had he appeared before the SEBI investigating team, Raju would have escaped arrest as the SEBI Act has no provision for arrest of a person. But, Raju chose to get "arrested" by the police and get charged under various provisions of the Indian Penal Code in what is being described by legal luminaries as a "legal match-fixing." "Now that he has been arrested and charged under the Indian Penal Code, Raju has secured immunity for himself from possible extradition to the United States where too he is facing criminal charges. Similarly, under what is known as 'double jeopardy' he can escape prosecution by any other agency as law bars prosecution of an accused twice for a same crime," leading lawyer Bhuvanagiri Chandrasekhar pointed out. "By surrendering before the police, Ramalinga Raju has purchased the liberty from facing billion dollar questions, that were to be answered, from various other quarters. In a way the government has saved him from the SEBI and also from extradition to the US," Chandrasekhar added. However, Ramalinga Raju could be convicted and awarded a life-term in jail under Section 409 of IPC. This could be a distant possibility as charges under the Section are tried by a magistrate who can award a jail term of only three years. "As per Section 409 of Criminal Procedure Code, a sessions court may suo moto withdraw the case from a magistrate court and try and punish an accused under 409 IPC and award a life-term. But such things have seldom happened so far," Chandrasekhar noted.
Thursday, 1 January 2009
GREETINGS & BEST WISHES
My heartfelt GREETINGS & BEST WISHES to all my blog readers and my dear friends for a HAPPY, PEACEFUL, PROSPEROUS & EVENTFUL NEW YEAR -- 2009.
with lots of love,
DESARAJU SURYA.
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