Watched the three released episodes on Netflix, more or less.
I didn't know any of it, had heard about Ramalinga Raju and the Satyam scandal which apparently is the fourth unreleased episode. The other three were informative, instructive and angering.
Wonder if it's going to continue, the naked corruption and the billionaire and multi-millionaire tribe's open looting of India's wealth. To quote a character, when a farmer can't pay back 5000 rupees of loans he dies, when a billionaire can't pay back 5000 crore rupees, nothing happens. The rules are clearly so different for the rich and the wealthy in India.
It's a must-watch show if you haven't, go ahead and check it out. Wait for the Satyam episode too.
The fact that the news is out, the anger is festering, that the government has promised to do something about it is a good sign, hopefully? Or has the globalization of finances and the existence of tax havens made such corruption and looting more convenient and looting, made such unethical and clearly illegal acts simpler and frictionless? Will these keep happening more?
What was also clear was the Indian ego, the need for validation in the west, of constant reminder that India is great, that Indians doing great things means incredible things. It's quite obvious from youtube, all the <so-and-so> [white person's] opinion on india and indian culture video, didn't realize it went all the way up the the rich and the powerful too. A little pathetic really. The constant need for acceptance feels like an unlikeable younger brother who doesn't amount to much constantly trying to one-up you and reminding that he's in fact better and taller and more awesome in everything.
Were the Japanese like this when Japan was a rising modern power? What about the Koreans, were they just as annoying too? Or were they more self-confident in their rise and sharing of their culture technology with the rest of the world.
Either way, good show. Don't want to go into the details because it's enraging quite honestly, and the details themselves are boring. The institutions of the rest of the world are complicit in a lot of this corruption, but the chain is only as strong as the weakest link. The Koreans don't complain about literally everybody else, neither do the Japanese, the Malaysians, despite their recent very bad experience with big international banks don't go about moaning how everybody is so corrupt everywhere, it's not just Malaysians okay. Because they know when the check of power inside is stronger, it flows. You cannot rob a well-secured vault.
Watch it.
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