What the hell WikiLeaks is doing?

WikiLeaks has recently garnered a lion share of public attention, all for wrong reasons, by disclosing selectively US diplomatic cables in public domain. This is, though evoked much public emotions, certainly not a responsive journalism that otherwise what Julian Assange believes in and has started pursuading the netizens. Getting access to confidential or secret government documents through a network of moles in various embassies doesn't necessarily a legitimate method of facts gathering or unfolding the larger truth that is bone deep, which often lies beneath the drafts of diplomatic cables. Many government documents published worldwide don't even achieve 50% of veracity in truth litmus. Now is the time for world citizens to understand what exactly Assange along with his WikiLeaks teams (read dubious informers) are doing. Before delving into the complexities of journalistic investigations, let's understand what these diplomatic cables actually are. Like the functioning of any other government establishments, the embassies also report on daily basis to their bosses based out in their native countries. Their primary mission is to keep a tab on the contemporary political developments and possible impact on the larger strategic interest of their nation, by engaging themselves with various senior government officials and political representatives of the country. What these embassy officials do can be compared with some highly placed PR guys, but there is a fundamental difference in their public status, the formers are kept wives and the latter ones are whores who can be with anybody and everybody to provide their service for a price.

So why these cables have made huge furore in world politics and media as well? And why the public including politicians and journalists, especially in India, have blindly fallen in love with the music composed by Assange? There is a serious a flaw in the modus operandi of Assange as far as journalistic rules are concerned. What Assange is doing is much like a postman opening a sealed romantic letter sent to a lover by his beloved and making multiple copies and distributing it to public who in all probability are much interested in peeping into the secret life of people and taking voyeuristic pleasure. That's what fundamentally WikiLeaks is doing and connoting it a serious act of journalism. Absolutely ridiculous. And the saddest part here is that people have started believing in those pieces of information, which are not completely free from errors. As I have said earlier, the information exchange between embassies and their countries' government establishments are a formal way of informing the political and diplomatic pulse, which also involves a great deal of futuristic and inspirational content that would excite the bosses who in all probability think they are the beneficiaries, otherwise the information delivered carries a load of factual incredibility to make this exciting. The WikiLeaks maybe trying to find a place for all its meaningless mission, of course, through dubious means, but that's not going to help resolve the larger issues this world is facing today. People still who believe in the authenticity of information leaked through diplomatic cables, they have a second chance to correct their understanding about the functioning of nations. There is much beyond these cables that governs the working of government establishments. This may be too miniscule a potential segment to impact the relations established among nations. I am sure the politicians, journalists, and public at large who still are wasting their energy on debating these dubious information leaked by WikiLeaks should correct their fundamentals on how secret information is exchanged between two entities.

The nexus is getting deeper and dirtier

The most unfortunate part of a democracy is that the law makers often cross the fence, even without measuring the consequences of their misadventures, partly because they think bending the law of the land is just another stratagem that they can execute in the wink of an eye. The WikiLeaks' US Embassy cable exposing the horse trading by the last UPA government, before passing the Nuclear Bill in the Parliament, now opens a bigger Pandora's box. And this time, our honest prime minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh's integrity is at the highest stake. Now the debate has entered the public domain, as the Opposition leaders in both the Houses have demanded resignation of prime minister with immediate effect. Though we understand that no political party in this country is free of corruption, the only silver lining with them is that when they move to opposition from ruling, they do some service to this nation by exposing the corrupt practices of the ruling party. And this is an infallible global practice in democracy.

This kind of events are not new to political parties in India, and especially for the Congress party, which has a dubious record of horse trading in the Parliament during different points of ruling this nation. But the sad part here is that an intellectual, honest persona like Dr. Singh has finally transformed to a full-fledged politician who knows how effectively he can dominate this political space. At this juncture, one interesting climax of the film Nayak strikes my mind. In that movie, the chief minister Shivaji Rao concocts a murder plot by inviting the opposition leader and fires a bullet to his shoulder in precisely safe manner and finally throws the gun to the latter and then the securities around perceive it an attack on the chief minister, and eventually kill the opposition leader brutally. And the last evocative statements come from Shivaji Rao to his private secretary: You have finally made me a politician. That's not a fictional plot at all, rather a more deep understanding of the larger issues in the society around us that movie makers often portray in various films.

Well, as the sequence of events are unfolding quickly, the bigger question that does haunt us is how deeper is this political nexus? Is it limited to the territory of India or has a wider snarl dictated by global super powers? As the WikiLeaks' cable stories explain, the epicenter of this precarious shocker is beyond the internal mesh. Now, let's delve deeper into the problem. Why was the US embassy in India so much interested in the vote-for-cash episode and even was virtually monitoring the process minute by minute? Why did a Congress party member confirm to an official in the US embassy that cash was ready for bargaining? Why was our prime minister hurried in passing the nuclear bill in the house during a period when he hadn't the majority to show? And recently, why the same prime minister is again vouching for this dangerous nuclear technology when the other developed countries are nonplussed in the aftermath of Japan's impending worst nuclear crisis? There are many serious questions that raise doubts in the integrity of functioning of this government, and also the integrity of the prime minister, being the head of the government. Maybe, the prime minister is not a direct beneficiary of the vexatious growing corruptions, but he can't even prove him innocent in the court of law for the simple reason that he knew what's happening under his nose and pretended not to smell the rot by keeping him at an arm's length. Many infamous examples have shrouded the political space of this nation, be it CWG scam, 2G scam, CVC selection, or the hush-hush behind the nuclear deal. This shows not only an expository version of our prime minister's loyalty to the Congress party and its high command at large, but also unravels his passion for power and position that every middle class person dreams along the trajectory of his life time. If the prime minister survives this political temblor, he would certainly justify the veracity of the allegations that opposition, media, and the public are charging on him.