Sting operations
Saturday, June 25, 2005
Recent revelations and Sting operations in and about India
Sting operations in and about India are among the glamorous things happening today. After following religiously almost all the sting operations starting from Tehelka to today's Bollywood casting couch and most recent one by SUN of Britain about Indian BPO's. Sting operations and its aftermath have always been exciting. It gives one a justified scenario, like the, yea I told you, Bollywood is like that and yea ofcourse they are Indian politicians what else you expect kinda responses from people.
So sting operations, now let's ask some basic questions. Ah, Sting operations, why are they for? and what do they try to accomplish ?, Does it benefit some or more?...these questions should be answered with all honesty one can muster.
Sting operations, no matter what they expose are always with one motive behind. Publicity. Think of corrupt politicians, its most certain, if you are the one who is following the news, you dont miss out on Tehelka. Think of so called casting couch in Bollywood, it certainly brings India TV to my mind, which I have never heard before the expose. Lets come to the British tabloid SUN's revelations of the corrupt and insecure Indian BPO's. SUN is arguably more famous than their Indian cousins Tehelka and India TV , but then , why should SUN do it. well come on guys grow up, after all there are many people who are losing their jobs or living in insecurity of losing their jobs. wouldnt this be the perfect opportunity to increase the circulation. would you miss on something , so much of interest and almost be damn sure about the increase in circulation. So, as we said Sting operations are done always in some way or the other to help the source, in our case, Tehelka, India TV and SUN. But, what are these news diseminating vehicles justifications for these sting operations.
Ask Tehelka, India TV or SUN (tabloid not the TV), you certainly will hear arguments that they are serving a higer purpose by bringing corrupt politicians to light, exposing lusty actors to the people and thereby trying to eliminate "casting couch" out of Bollywood and finally exposing to the world and the people how bad is it to outsource for short term profits and how risky people's personal & confidential data are in INDIAN BPO's.
So lets take it one by one. Tehelka, handling bulks of currency to politicians who does not have enough power in their hands. India TV exposing actors again who doesnt have any absolute influence and guarantee in the industry. Revelations,by SUN that an employee of an Indian BPO, Infinity e-search , sold the personal and confidential data to the SUN reporter. But the irony being, Infinity e-search is not a BPO and certainly does not deal with any confidential data.
Come on guys, if there should be any real impact on the people's mindset and you want to see a change, you should not beat around the bush but directly hit the bull's eye. You want to expose politicians, expose those who are at the power. You want to expose the casting couch, expose the big wigs of the industry who set the rules. If you want justify anti-outsourcing do it the right way, differentiate how bad is the risk compared to your own country. One has to prove, the risk is considerably worser than doing it in your own country. Personal and confidential data are ultimately guarded by humans, and any human can be lured. So any way out.
My take:
Sting operations are good, only if it impacts a change in the society.For the change to happen, hit the bull's eye.
regards,
Praveen jothi
Posted byPraveen J at 9:34 AM
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