How pityful

So, ultimately, Gen. Singh, our poor Chief of Indian Army stands with a bloody nose. He got the knock at the Supreme Court where he went expecting his stay as army head up to May '13. This failure of his is a classic example of how power hungry are humbled. It is never contendable that someone feeling basically aggrieved by the Government or any body else should not fight out his case for justice. The hairline difference between genuine justice seeker and our battered General was only that our General pretty well knew that he was fighting an already lost cause, per se, not even a cause. Instead of going thus far to Supreme Court and contriving out a means to continue as Chief of Indian Army for a further year, Singh would have been a better gallant soldier had he resigned away right at the moment, his date of birth was getting controversial. If not with a few thousand more rupees in his pension kitty, he could have gone with greater honour and bigger image. Gen Sinha had done so by throwing away his resignation to the then PM immediately after his junior Gen Vaidya was opted for chiefship. He did not go to any court. This reminds one of Kiran Bedi, a much hallowed police woman, the first lady IPS officer who clamoured for the job of Delhi Police Commissioner after elevation of Dadwal, a junior, to this office, much in the Singh style. She was lollypopped by the then Home Minister for a long time. Instead of smelling the design of the government, Bedi acted the innocent girl only to resign her job just three months prior to her due retirement date. No one was the taker of her system-made me-a-martyr stance and she fuzzed away with all bravado she had earned as a very upright cop only to reappear as an Anna baby later on in Indian socio politics. This is how mighty fall in this country with their Macbethian ambition at play.