my rediff piece on how to rescue the #rupee. basically, tighten belts of parasitic neta-babu classes.

http://www.rediff.com/business/column/rescuing-the-rupee-what-can-be-done/20120525.htm

with admirable restraint, even if i say so myself, i have eschewed the idea of lining up a bunch of these people and ... beating them with (in the immortal words of an old-fashioned person i knew) brooms dipped in excrement. 

or worse.

[actual phrase i was thinking of was: 'klanjil amedhyathil mukki adikkuka' -- hard to translate from the malayalam]