Satyameve Jayate-Forgotten Hero

It's now exactly 3 years since a young IIT, Kanpur Civil Engineer by name Satyendre Dubey working for the prestigious golden quadrilateral project was shot down at point blank range by shoddy sub contractor mafia for daring to speak the truth. His open letter to the PMO office on the scandals in the National highway projects and the resultant shoddy work which was leaked out to press was the real cause of his ultimate murder. Though there was a huge outpouring of grief and anti crusade slogans against corruption thanks to the Indian Express scribes nothing much has happened in the case with the CBI dragging its feet and none of those actually guilty being punished so far with law taking its own sweet time.
However in a rare tribute, NDTV recalled the poignant story of the young engineer who joined the Govt service to help the poor with better infrastructure and roads as a mission in spite of multinational offers and in the process inspired hundreds of fellow students from his home village to aim for higher education in institutions like IIT. At least people in his home town seem to be still remembering him and the school where he studied has been renamed as Satyendra Dubey School and seeing the forlorn figure of his father and sisters still seeking justice was quiet moving!

RK