NEW DELHI, July 26 -- Mind you, the pernicious Pegasus might be perching cozily on your housetop, and you may be blissfully unaware of it at all. How can you ever get a wind of the invisible, ominous Greek-mythological winged-horse snooping over all that is happening, including those intimate moments with your spouse and the not-so-holy gossip about the neighbours; or even some choicest abuses about the government leaders for their double standards and gross failures to take care of those who had voted them!

Nothing seems impossible for the government to enlist her citizens, who might be speaking up against what had been decided by the leaders behind doors, in the closed-door party meets and secret deals with corporates and those who would...