‘Sacking’ the General Bureaucratic controls How our politico-bureaucratic dispensation hates the military has numerous examples. When General VK Singh was the serving Army Chief, fodder-eating Lalu Prasad Yadav, referring to him, snapped his fingers and said isko masal dena chahiye - squash him! Later under pressure he apologized to the General privately but avoided a public apology. At a seminar at the IAS academy in Mussoorie some years ago, Major General Ian Cardozo, noting the diatribe against our military by former diplomat TCA Raghavan asked him, ``Do you hate us?” His immediate response was, “Of course we do. Don’t you know it?” Possibly Raghavan slept under his cot during his two-year tenure at Islamabad as High Commissioner fearing the Pakistani military.