To the chairman and Managing director

To the chairman and Managing director

I wanted to share two interesting experiences I had with public banks.

1.        The first experience was in the year 2008. My father was a senior manager with a prominent public bank. Upon his demise in 2007, the bank closed all the loans pending and settles the monitory benefits. That was swift and timely. The events that happened after this was tiring. I had to collect the house document from the bank for which the loan has been closed. I went to the branch where he worked during his final official days – Nungambakkam – inspection centre. They asked me to come on Saturday and I went on every Saturday for next 2 months. After 8 visits, I lost my patience and asked them, where the document is. They said – they are still searching it. I was informed that it should be with the Nandanam branch. I went to the Nandanam branch and met an officer and narrated by whole story. He took my name and number and politely asked me to come on a Saturday. This time I was very confident that the job is done. Next Saturday, I was not able to find that guy and no one knows my story there. I directly went to the general manager stationed in that branch. He asked me to call after 2 hours. I called him after 2 hours and he said that the document is surely not in Nandanam branch and his scope is closed with that.

I started to search on my own. I wrote to many branches where my father worked after he bought that house. No one replied. I went back to Nungambakkam inspection centre and asked for information. They started ignoring as they said they will call me once they find it out. I was totally frustrated – I was being treated as guy who is asking for loan without any securities.

Time marched; it was 6 months after I started the “document search”. Many officers will listen to me, take my number and then forget it. It was like a weekly for loop. But one day, I happened to meet one of my father’s friends. He was really helpful. One last time, I narrated the whole story and he directly asked me to write “to the chairman and managing director of XXXXXX bank”. I did it immediately – a three page long message with my entire plight that happened in those 6 months. It’s magic – 3 days later, I was asked to go to Neyveli branch and collect the document.

2.        The second experience happened in 2014. My wife cleared the IBPS exam and interview in 2013 and she was asked to join in Dec 2013 in a reputed bank. As she was pregnant, we gave a request letter for further extension. The extension was granted till July 2014. We were blessed with a boy baby and after a joyous three months, intimation came for joining. We felt it’s too early to join and thought of requesting another month of extension. Though we sent many written request, no confirmed orders came. So, my wife used to call the HR manager of Mysore circle (the circle where she was posted initially) – he used say the same answer “You will get it this Saturday” (why bankers are obsessed with Saturdays?) and that Saturday never came. The date of joining is just a week away. My wife called him and asked him for an affirmative answer, he immediately asked her to join on July 7^th batch else, her joining will be a question as the next batch is not yet finalized (and some blah blah blah).

My wife started with the one week training that held in Bangalore. The first day itself, she submitted a letter requesting to post her in either Bangalore or Mysore as she delivered a baby just three months back (on medical grounds). They took the letter and did what they do best – forget it. The same request was given to the Union leaders too (at the end of this experience I understood that these union leaders have no scope in HR department of the bank). At the end of her training she was asked to join “Arakere” – I can’t find this in google map initially J. It’s a village 25 kilometres from Mysore. Imagine the plight of a new mother travelling 50 Kms every day in bus. I along with my father in law went to the village and did a trial travel from Mysore to Arakere and felt it is impossible task. Since I require high speed internet, we can’t shift to that village and stay there.

On date of joining, my wife called up Arakere branch manager and said that she will be reporting late as we need to meet the HR manager in person in Mysore. We went to Mysore to meet the HR and had the worst of all experience with him. The union guy is just like radio transmitting what the HR manager just said. I was fed up and convinced my family to quit the job as my wife’s and son’s wellbeing is my priority. The family members were in dilemma but they agreed that there is no other choice to quit if she has to work in that village. But I had one last idea – write a letter “to chairman and managing director of XXXXXX bank”. I wrote a three page long letter describing all that happened. It’s magic – 3 days later, a joining letter was received in my wife’s name to report in Mysore city branch.

Plutocracy - Kaasu Panam Dhuttu

Necessity is the mother of all inventions. But what necessitated the invention of money. To understand this, let us travel back in time.

Medieval England:
The first bankers are money changers. Their job is to keep safe other people's gold in their vaults and give receipts. These receipts were the first money. People were OK with this as it is easy to carry cash instead of gold everywhere. Money changers identified that only a small fraction of depositors ever came in and demanded their gold at any one time. The money changers capitalized this scenario and gave away loans far more than the gold they had with them. This is what now called Fractional Reserve Banking - The practice of lending out money than the assets in hand. This way, the money changers accumulated more money / gold out of nothing.

Money Changers:
Queen Elizabeth tried to take control of economy of Great Britain; money changers were so influential that they put UK into a series of expensive war for next 50 years. At the end, the UK government were force to contact these money changers to bail them out. In exchange the money changers were allowed to create a bank. The first modern private bank "Bank of England" was created in 1694. The name of the bank is so deceptive that one thinks it is government owned bank, but it is not. Adding mystery, it is not mandatory to reveal the real investors. The business of this bank is to loan British politicians as much as currency (just by printing papers). The British govt. is supposed to repay the loan through direct taxation of citizens. The loan and interest are 100% secured in this way. Repeat of incidents in 1791 in USA. It was initially called, the "First Bank of United States".

Rothschild:
One such money changer is Mayer Amschel Rothschild. He had five sons: Amschel "Anselm" Mayer Rothschild (base: Frankfurt), Salomon Mayer Rothschild (base: Austria), Nathan Mayer Rothschild (base: London), Calmann "Carl" Mayer (base: Naples, Jacob "James" Mayer (base: Paris). They had Rothschild houses in their respective bases and started giving loans to governments. by mid-1800, Rothschilds were the richest family in the world. If any big mansions in Europe don’t belong to the kings, it belongs to Rothschild. JP Morgan, Rockefeller, Cechil Rhodes were all "Fronts" of Rothschild family.

War is always expensive for both sides. Rothschild keeps backing both sides with loan and makes money. They did it when Austria waged a war against France in early 1800s. Earlier to March 1815, Napoleon of France was waging his final battle in Waterloo. If he wins, shares in London stock market will fall. Nathan Rothschild learnt Napoleon's defeat even before the government in London. He notoriously started selling shares to create an environment that Napoleon has won the war. Everyone sold their share and all were bought by Rothschild himself. The next day, when the news break - Nathan Rothschild proved why he was a successful businessman.

In mid-1800, they owned half the wealth of the world. They own the lion's share in Federal reserve of USA. Rothschild are into all major business, what ever we name, they will be there. But their name will not surface anywhere. Rothschild name never came in the richest of the richest list anytime - they own the media. They are the only trillionaire in the world. The secrets of Rothschild family are more as we dig in more.


If money is God, Rosthchilds are the prophet.

Secularism Stabbed - My thoughts about "Raam Ke Naam"

Disclaimer:

"Raam ke Naam" - The documentary of Anand Patwardhan (made in 1990 and released in 1997) about the attempt to demolish Babri Masjid on 30th October 1990 by 'militants' - rightly called by the documentary maker. The documentary was very impressive and this is not a review but my thoughts about it. I'm an atheist and endorse no religion.

 The documentary starts with L K Advani's rath yatra across tha nation calling Hindus to build Ram temple in the same spot. Advani's oratory skills are well captured and he is prolific in his speeches to attract people for his work. The first person to get interviewed was an oil business man wearing a red cloth over his forehead and talks about Hindu's right over Ramjanma Bhoomi. I felt wrong with a fact that was mentioned: "Babri masjid was built 1528 and 50 years later Tulsidas wrote Ramayana". Why was Valmiki's or Kambar's version of Ramayana was not mentioned here. Kambar lived circa 1180, some 340+ years back Babri masjid was built.

Chilling Facts:

British were disturbed the unity of Hindus and Muslims in India. So, they promoted a rumor that Babur destroyed a hindu temple and built the babur masjid. But with mutual compromise Hindus prayed in a Ram temple inside the compound of the masjid. Peace until 1949 when some people placed an Idol of Ram inside the masjid. The case went to district magistrate K.K.Nayar who refused to remove the idol stating security reasons. I feel this is the second biggest mistake next to the demolition itself. Temple remained opened but masjid sealed. Nayar later joined Jan sang. Mahant Shastri one of those who kept the idol inside the masjid says that Lord Ram appeared inside the mosque in his dreams and hence he did it. Does his conscience would prick him today? Haji Abdul Gafar, the imam of Babri masjid was promised by K.K.Nayar that within few fridays, things will be resolved. That friday never came.

Sarcastic views:

A law student who is a staunch supporter of VHP is interviewed. He is asked which century Ram was born. He says "I'm in first year of Law and the syllabus doesn't cover this"!! A man appearing to be saint says 1000s of years if not 100,000s of years. There were few more interviews of common man who doesn't like the demolition and construction. Common man is more worried about his social status and price rise. All the riots in the history are orchestrated by those who will be benefitted and innocents were just victims.

Rage of fire:

BJP went from 2 seats in 1984 election to 86 in 1989 by promoting hardline hindutva idealogy. This led its leaders to believe that Hindutva was the key for their success. Bricks and money were collected from international branches of VHP. Where ever Advani's rath went, lives fell, but rath never stopped. The chronology is first RSS, then VHP and then Bajrang Dal - considered to be youth wing of VHP. Bajrang dal was created more specifically for Ram Janma Bhoomi. They are all on fire to finish the task. The video also present speech by Baradhan in Patna during the same time, the veteran communist leader who fires against the chariot tour. He insists India has serious problem to deal with than building the temple. But this did not stop Advani.

The Attempt:

All roads to Ayodhya blocked. The karsevaks were stopped crossing the bridge that lead them to the site. Karsevaks with rage shouts "Bagavan ki roop hamare andhar hai". The environment is full of provocative slogans. Police lathi charges and disperse the crowd ony to gather in another spot trying to enter the compound. The vice president of VHP, S C Dixit was a former DGP and he uses his influence and speaks to the crowd using the police mega phone. He doesn't pacify them instead does the opposite. The police began to withdraw and karsevaks move ahead towards the compound. Few manages to stand tall on the domes, all of a sudden police hit back with gun shots. 4 killed, the attempt aborted. I appreciate the effort by Mulyam singh in preventing such attempts in his tenure. But Kalyan sing din't do this in 1992 which stabbed the secularism in India.

Kamal Hassan said in his movie VasoolRaja MBBS (Eng Translation):

Trust those who doesn't believe in God,

Trust those who believe in God but never trust those who say that He is God ("Bagavan ki roop hamare andhar hai"). He was right.

Bleeding theory of Ruchika

Aarushi's murder was one of the high profile murder cases (under violence against women's agenda of the news channels). One can recollect Jessica Lal murder in 1999 was also a focus of main stream media at that time. The common line between these two is that the case was almost closed without convicting the known murderer and then the media created a justified pressure to re-open or appeal against the acquittal of the accused. In the second innings of all these cases the murderer was put behind the bars. I can think of – the case of Prathibha (2005 - Bangalore BPO girl murdered by the cabby) which was under intense media pressure but the first judgement itself came against the murderer. He is serving prison till death (rare judgement next only to death penalty). Delhi rape case last year was another example of intense media coverage extreme outcry of public. So far so good. The middle class Indian convinces himself that even if the violence against women is unavoidable in few cases, the culprit is not spared from law.

We have to rewind our memory a little more – Ruchika Girhotra (1990). Ruchika who lost her mother at her young age was a budding tennis player in Haryana. SPS Rathore an IPS officer – what to say about him? Molested Ruchika (Rathore’s daughter is Ruchika’s batch mate in the same school) and had to face some initial actions with an FIR filed against him. But, he gathered some strength from his sources and started his demon-like acts against the Girhotra’s family. He then harassed the family by placing plain cloth police men in front of Ruchika’s house. He arrested the teen age brother of Ruchika, Ashu and tortured him to sign blank papers and filed cases of stolen cars on him. Her brother was paraded half naked in front of his house with hands cuffed. There were Rathore organised mobs in front of Ruchika’s home to shout slogans against them. Rathore influenced the school authorities to expel Ruchika which they did and killed the heart of the teen ager. She consumed poison and found peace. Her father lost peace with his daughter dead and his son in jail (this was two years after the complaint filed against Rathore).  (Facts collected from various internet sites)

Time marched – 19 years. Rathore was promoted to ADGP and later became the DGP. He filed cases against Aradhana (Ruchika’s friend and the only witness of the molestation), lawyers who appeared for Ruchika, Ruchika’s father and brother. All-out attack. The main difference between the cases of 2000s and 1990s is the media coverage. Hardly someone in the 90s would have known about Ruchika’s case, it in fact came to lime light in late 2000s when Rathore was bailed out ten minutes after he was sentenced and created a public uproar in media. Imagine if there was media coverage during Ruchika’s days as we have today – Rathore would have had nightmares in his prison cell.

Lately Rathore served 6 months in jail for what he did 19 years back and now out in bail. He has appealed against his conviction. However, very recently Ruchika’s family stopped their fight against him. Understandable. At 9 PM every day I feel - new channels are entertaining the viewer instead of informing them. Paid news, politically biased – such things are there but still I think wide media presence is giving the wrong doers a sense of fear that they can’t evade forever.

Stay Alive Without Talking

Albert Einstein – voted as the man of the century (last century) was remembered for many of his scientific theories, most known for his theory of relativity. In recent past his name is associated with his phrase “I fear the day technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.” – Yes, that genius indeed foresaw the future.

Evolution of Communication:
the history of communication can track back even to the date when humans evolved. Pigeons, Manuscripts, reflecting mirrors, printing press etc. i.e. those existed before the digital revolution did not stop humans from interacting. However, the above statement from Einstein has become true in recent past.  

Stay Alive without Talking:
Smart phones are devices that are changing the lifestyle of current generation and will define a new lifestyle for the next generation. Smart phone apps are helping us to find the shortest route in any city (no need to talk to auto drivers), remember birthdays (no need to wish in person – just write on the wall or whatsapp , on line transactions (no need to go to EB office, banks, book tickets or any other office where we need to pay bills / taxes or talk to officials there), online shopping (the next generation may not know what is bargaining!- which we are slowly forgetting J). We can keep adding many line items to this list – the apps are unending. With all these features one can stay alive even for a month without talking to anyone. This is annoying isn't?  

Change is inevitable:
A kid in 2020s may question why should someone write “r u der?” or “jst lyk dat?” instead of writing the full spelling. The SMSs of those days were long dead, now the feature of prediction and swipe made typing easier, the speech software are typing what we speak on our behalf these days. I May say “Happy birthday Mani” in front of the phone (!!??!!), and send the voice message to Mani who is staying just few KMs from my home. I will equally feel guilty of not wishing him in person and having some fun outing as I did in late 2000s, as I compose myself that I need to keep going and using technology is not killing my relationship.

There were days when inviting relatives to marriage through phone was considered taboo, now it is a common practice  We accepted those deviations and kept changing our life and practices. Does the same apply now, so wishing birthday in phone or some app doesn't harm the relationship? Doesn't “missing” have some to play if we don’t show up in person? Are there few left in our life to show up in person, go out and take a break from the unrelenting work schedule? Yes, there are. So, let’s keep meeting those who are important to be met in person and use technology for all others.

Smart phones are expenses that give all comfort but no “experience”. Finding the road route From Chennai to Tarangambadi is a smart phone feature. Travelling that route with my friends is an experience of lifetime. Let’s have some experiences from life.

I don’t want to be a Sachin Tendulkar.

We have equal number of Sachin lovers and non-lovers (let’s not have haters). So please read with your mind within cricketing arena. One can keep writing pages and pages on him, I just give my humble thoughts about him.

On 200^th test match, for one last time, Sachin made cricket crazy nation to stop working and watch him play. There came masters, master blasters, classy wall (my fav), fighters, survivors and they all went. But only one stood watching them come and then go. It took a mammoth 24 years to do so. Only passion can get a man to do that. There are of course few international stars that lived up to expectations and survived more than a decade. The difference is that Sachin’s sheer longevity and that did not come through sheer luck

Sachin - Taken for granted:
Everyone knows what other cricketing legends say about Sachin. They know cricket as well as Sachin. The layman’s respect:
Not sure who is the opposition, don’t know what the team composition is, but simply ask “how much did Sachin scored?”  Admit this must have happened at least once in your life time. That is how Sachin was taken for granted by cricket fans.

Humility:
I will quote a conversation between me and a hardcore Sachin fan after the WC2011 victory. He was slide showing some of the celebration photos.
He (enthused): India won the cup
me (not that enthused): Yes, good team expected to win.
He (enthused): Sachin’s dream fulfilled
me (sarcastic): Machi  - get back to work J
He and I went jaw dropping in the next picture where Sachin handed over the cup to a fan (just googled to find his name - the tri colour fellow in all matches – Sudhir).
A celebrity loyal to his fan – what logic? Here he is no celebrity. Then, who is he? Just Sachin.

Commitment:
Whether he is a team player or not is an unending debate. I’m not a specialist to discuss that. But my thought is that if he is not a team player he could not have survived all odds for more than 2 decades. How many of Indian cricketers have faced the number of balls equal to the number of runs he scored?

There are many snack bites about Sachin like pitch inspection before every match, always punctual, respect to opponents, answering only with bat, and aggression not in eyes but with technique – all these combined to serve the grand meal he gave us. Does this mean no others did these things – may be yes. But he did all these basics when fellow mates and fans claimed him to be God. So he is special.

He kept playing his shots when:

1.       The team coach wanted his career to be ended

2.       His home ground fans boo-ed at him

3.       Some of his team mates played for extra money

4.       When his centuries were ignored for the team’s loss

5.       The whole game of cricket was changing from moderate to aggressive mode

6.       Everyone wanted him to retire

I’m not a cricket enthusiast or analyst or a hard-core fan with stats on finger tips. I watch Sachin play during my school days, college days and now I’m working for 6 years.  Man! 24 years is more than 2/3^rd of my life so far. I would like to divide my life as Before Sachin’s retirement and After Sachin’s retirement. Others who would do so raise your hands J.

I forgot my passion for work, Sachin didn't.  I complained my commitments for not hitting the gym, Sachin didn't. I felt the next generation has grown up when Sachin hit 200 among his next generation in ODI.

I do not want to be a Sachin Tendulkar.  I will be a human.

He who is God?

Existence and non-existence of God is an unending debate. Let’s not start it once again. I just kept thinking how man thought of some God component for the first time. It must be the rain, air, fire, land – those natural phenomenon upon which man did not have any control. The phenomenon that help him live his life without much trouble. But man did not stop with that. Take any civilization Greek, Roman, Indian - Gods have families. This is a clear example of man’s imagination.

I have read the rise of Vatican resulted in the start of dark medieval period. Before the rise of Vatican - the civilizations relied much on human knowledge than the super powers. Anyone can read about Hypatia to understand this. This applies to all civilizations – they migrated to superstitious beliefs than believing their self-instincts. I feel this is the time in our history we started celebrating God than worshipping. That is why archaeologists unearth more “worship artefacts” than “study artefacts”.

Modern science - We have our evolution theory that details how man came into existence. It details about how other living things existed and went extinct before and after the birth of human species. OK, what about the universe? Stephen Hawkins says no one knows how the universe was created. Our great scientists were able to figure out the gases that were present few minutes after the big bang (science belief of universe creation) but not what caused that big bang explosion. Hawkins conclude that till someone finds that moment let’s assume that universe was created out of God’s particle (!). He passed the buck to God himself.

If God had really created the universe, man may not find him at all unless God himself decide to show up. Man did not sightsee the whole universe yet, we have just covered a small area so far. God could be anywhere we dint see through the eyes of our explorers in the space. On that day when we have swept the entire universe, God is all powerful to extend this universe.

Most of the dark beliefs were out of our life these days. God is not as powerful as he was when he was first conceived.  Currency is powerful, Guns are powerful, Internet is powerful etc. Religions will survive as long as they are fed with money, else many will disappear. One day in future - caste and religion will be history, temples will be museums and that day man will be free thinking man and that is how he came into existence at first.

Compassionate Grounds

I thought of sharing some of my experiences with red-tapism.

Encounter 1:

Directorate of Medical Education – Kilpauk

At the age of 24 I was introduced to forms / applications /approvals / rejections that are outside my college. I was taken by shock to experience few things which we all know that exists in Indian government offices.

Here, the story is to get an approval for an interview (a clearance for transplant) for my father’s surgery. Let’s get direct to the subject. The approval has to come from the helmsman of DME. I was asked to go and ask for updates from the DME boss frequently as things won’t move until personal presence and request are done in that office.

I went to him continuously for 4 weeks. Below is the sequence that happened every time I met him. He will always be alone in that room – no one waiting to see him. I will be the only one and I just enter the room and convey the file number and other details and ask for the approval of the interview. He just asks me to “come next week”. Still, I went eight times in 4 weeks to just hear these three words. The problem is my dad’s health is deteriorating and the surgery was to be done at the earliest.

The next time I visited him, I had to wait for my turn. There was another man for the very reason I was visiting for 4 weeks. He was in tears standing in front of the DME boss and holding his hands the way prayers are done in Hindu temples. I was able to hear what he was trying to say in between his sobbing. He was asking for an update of the interview clearance which I was also doing. Gosh! Can I just do what that person did?

I entered his room – did not utter a single word. He recognized me and said “Thambi, this is what happens. Any rule in India can be broken under compassionate grounds. I do not see your applications genuine – So I can’t sign it with my conscious. I can only sign it because I feel compassionate with your gesture of pleading (!) me repeatedly. ” blown away!

Next - friends.  I got in touch with the lowest party cadre of the union health minister of that day (he was from Tamil Nadu) through my friend. Then I and my friend climbed up the ladder to reach maximum height and get some help. Within three days we made our way to meet the PA (part side) of the minister. We were asked to wait in a lobby and asked not to move out. This is because the only way to meet him is when he walks out of the room. We waited for seven hours without break and finally we were called in. It was just 40 minutes ahead of my dad’s fifth interview. My friend’s caste came into help and the PA called DME immediately and asked to clear the application for zero rupees. The interview was cleared and then we went ahead with the surgery.

In India -Honest or dishonest - Money, power, caste, contacts make them “can can”.

My thoughts about the book "Triumph of Truth: Rajiv Gandhi Assassination-The Investigation"

Rajiv Gandhi

I was just 7+ years old on that day May 21 1991. I hardly remember anything other than the sights of people grouping themselves here and there talking about something when I went with my father to buy milk the next day morning. For India, Rajiv Gandhi was the most charismatic leader in the world. Countrymen during those days were really proud to have such a young, energetic leader (Those were the days when media was controlled by Government and only the better side of them are known to public).

Rajiv Gandhi was a pilot - becoming a pilot was my childhood dream (Sudha and Dandapani my 5th standard class mates only knew this - let’s get back to the subject). I learnt about Rajiv Gandhi when I visited Indira Gandhi museum in Delhi with my family some years back. His death and the modus operandi made me to think "was he so powerful?"

What provoked me?

Later during the final days of Lankan civil war - the social media was bursting with Pro-LTTE messages, I forced myself to learn about their act of eliminating Rajiv. So I did what anyone else would have done - Google. I stumbled upon a book and two movies:

1. Triumph of Truth: Rajiv Gandhi Assassination-The Investigation

2. Mission 90 days (Malayalam movie directed by Major Ravi who participated in operation to nab Sivarasan)

3. Kuppi (Kannada / Tamil bilingual movie about the steps taken by Sivarasan to escape Indian authorities).

I downloaded those two movies and watched them.

Mission 90 days was actually the NSG version of the investigation claiming all credits to them and ignoring DRK.

Kuppi was the police version of the investigation claiming all credits to Chennai and Bangalore Police ignoring the black cats.

I have heard my father talking high about Mr.D.R. Karthikeyan who investigated the assassination way back (same reason - no parallel media investigation). I purchased the book through bookadda.com authored by the D.R.K and his deputy Radha Vinod Raju.

The Book:

Briefing the assassination:

DRK presents some of his meetings with Rajiv and describes how humble and charismatic our leader was during those days. DRK wonders how Rajiv took the wheels on an open jeep during his tour in Karnataka. Apart from these incidents, the book details the happenings of the ill-fated day of 21 May 1991.

Mr. DRK on his own words says investigation is to find

1. Who did it?

2. How they did it?

3. Why they did it?

Regarding the first two questions - DRK and his team did a terrific job with the resources at their disposal in those days. With limited technical facilities they tracked evidences against one of the most advanced and dreadful team.

But, when it comes to the third question - the whole book points LTTE, their intention to eliminate Rajiv for their homeland struggle. However, the very point focussing the whole assassination on LTTE makes me think there is something more.

Excuse me MR. DRK:

Below are few question that strikes me when I read the book:

1. The book says - Sivarasan and Subha escaped to Bangalore from Madras in a tanker truck without police checking it.

The whole Indian east cost was sealed to stop any escape.

The state of TN was under emergency with full powers to security agency to nab the murderers at any cost. All the escape routes, travel junctures are scanned every minute and sub marines intercepting radio signals in the Bay of Bengal.

 How can the reader believe that the tanker escaped without police check. I think it went through the police check post, but still slipped off due to negligence or inside play

2. Death of smuggler Shanmugam - he is the man who received the hit team in Kodiakarai coastal area. He hid scores of arms, ammunitions, communication devices in his farm. The police arrested him and that arrest was termed "big fish". Just few hours later, he was announced absconding and found dead just 500 mts away from the same police station hanging in a tree but with a different costume.

 It is unbelievable - for TN police take 48+ hours to find someone hanging just 500 mts away from the escape place.

 Why was his costume changed (from dhoti to lungi before suicide?)

3. When Sivarasan was surrounded in Bangalore outskirts - his hideout was guarded for more than day giving him enough time to sit back and think of escape route or suicide.

 DRK being the head of the SIT doesn't need to consult with anyone before striking the hideout once detected as they did in Indira Nagar in Bangalore a few weeks before they surrounded Sivarasan.

 Still the message was conveyed to "some" superiors and waited for more commandos and more anti cyanide medicines and gave enough time for the hit team to commit a mass suicide.

4. All investigative books on this assassination says that no one knows who built the bomb that killed Rajiv. But a recent movie on this case "Madras cafe" - they show a German chemical engineer working on building a plastic explosive that blasted our ex-pm.

5. Video evidences - DRK says that video cameras were shut down and intended to capture only when Rajiv takes on the dais - this is not true. Ragothaman, one of the officers in the SIT specified that they have tampered video tapes and they show nothing significant or may be the significant parts are erased.

He also goes on to say on record that Sivarasan's notebook mention the exact time of arrival of Rajiv Gandhi to Chennai airport. He says that the rescheduled arrival time known only to persons in Hyderabad airport was somehow communicated to Sivarasan - how can this be done without any inside play.

With such a huge man hunt and investigative team with all resources was able to nail only LTTE for this assassination makes any reader think that there is definitely a larger conspiracy.

1. Rajiv trying to be a "USA" of south Asia (preventing a coupe in Maldives, IPFK etc.)

2. Western powers wanted control of Triconamalee port to control south East Asian trade routes.

3. LTTE was just the hit man of a bigger conspiracy including many terrorists groups.

4. Arms manufacturing companies wanted him to be silenced to keep their arms selling to the civil war etc. and etc.

Does God answer all these questions - no we have our own Multi-Disciplinary Monitoring Agency working on these for more than a decade. Great job!!!