It is tough for Honest to survive in India

SM Krishna in an interview with Rajdeep Sardesai has said that GK Pillai , home secretary should have not spoken about involvement of ISI in 26/11 terror attack on the eve of his visit.

If Pillai would have not spoken about it then who should have spoken against ISI on record? Minister’s don’t have guts to say so.

However, Krishna seems to have seriously taken words of Pakistani foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi. The major reason was talks failure, as pointed by Qureshi, were phone calls that Krishna was making. Qureshi had only referred to GK Pillai's remark to knock off India's objection on Hafiz Saeed's anti-India speeches. If Qureshi is to be believed,the bilateral talk failed because Krishna was busy on phone.

Journalist who frequently interact with ministers know that they are thick skin people and hardly aware of the matters in which there ministry is involved in to.

Other bureaucrats speaking against Pillai have angst against him. Pillai has served the nation with great zeal and at various position.

He is credited with title of ‘Father of SEZ’ in India. No minister could have taken effort to create a zone that could boost nations economy. Pillai shared details with media and it was largely appreciated.

Even at that time Pillai had to row in tough waters to get SEZ act passed in parliament by visiting and convincing almost each and every member of parliament. Many of these MP didn’t even had time to read documents of the policy. Pillai had to read out details for every MP – (An MP in India is defined as distinct breed of politician who over time has acquired thick skin and is not ready to take an iota of pain for nation’s welfare).

After he became Home Secretary, he revolutionized the processes. Bureaucrats say that MHA has started interfering in business of other ministries.

But why these dick head bureaucrat don’t think that in most of the ministries top level officials don’t have capability to think the way there ministry can lead to adverse effect on national security.

For example, if systems in Ministry of External Affairs were so strong, then How did David C Headly made entry in to India? Headly’s presence was key in formulation of 26/11 attack.

Is SM Krishna or any other bureaucrat having answer to this question?


Similarly, security is not only related to checking of guns and bombs. Lot of vital data is stored in computers as well. Data like location of defence personnels on border, defence capabilities etc.

A sincere effort to beef-up cyber security has been taken after Pillai took over as secretary of MHA along with Department of Justice. It is during his tenure a separate cuber court room in the country had been set-up. Computers entered in India at the time of Rajiv Gandhi.

Why was it not done earlier?

MHA issued notice to Department of Telecom to stop services on handset with not genuine IMEI numbers.

Why was DoT on its own unable to recognize the potential threats these handsets could have had?

Why did Indian bureaucrat allowed Chinese investment in sensitive sector like telecom when China is friend to enemy nation Pakistan and hostile to India?

There are series of questions to which thick skin bureaucrats will not have any reasonable answer but only they are seeing the way they have been turned lame by interference of MHA.

In the interview Radeep Sardesai provoked Krishna to make comment on Pillai. Sardesai acted like second Rajat Sharma. Sardesai did this because he very well knows that comments against Pillai will not be tolerated by citizens of this country and they will express their view. This in-turn will bring revenue for his channel.


Rajdeep I agree that you may have been successful in making money for your channel but you have lost respect as a journalist by planting attack on Pillai.

Shame on Ministry of Home Affairs that took away Pillai’s right of speaking to media and appointed new spokesperson Dileep Raj S Chaudhary.

It is an attempt by politicians to prune liberty of nations most honest bureaucrat GK Pillai.