Vishwa Bandhu Gupta

Vishwa Bandhu Gupta, popularly known as Vishwa Bandhu, is an Indian social activist and a prominent leader in the 2011 Indian anti-corruption movement.

He is a former Indian Revenue Service officer,^[1] who previously served in the Income Tax Department and was suspended as an additional Commissioner^[1]

Opposition of VDIS Scheme

Gupta had opposed the Voluntary Disclosure of Income Scheme tooth and nail even when it was at the implementation stage and was the first to complain about the manner in which "silver laundering" was being done by "declarants."^[2]

However he has later been exposed to have absolutely no knowledge of the Cloud or any other technology and has embarrassed himself in his interviews. On his Video on Cloud Computing, he goes on to say that "information is stored in the cloud using cloud seeding and the information can get corrupted when it rains."^[3]

He also goes ahead to claim that there exists technology that can record words spoken in the room after one hour as this information is stored in the air and after a long time, information in the sim of the mobile phone gets transmitted to the battery, which could be later extracted and can be mis-used.

Youtube Interviews

In a playlist of interviews^[4] widely viewed on YouTube, Mr. Gupta talks about various subjects related to corruption, political and scams in India. Most of the interviews tend to be whistle-blower in nature.

The other interviews on his channel touch upon subjects like

1. Cloud Computing explained – by Ramandeep Singh Malhotra
2. Talks with my Guru – by Ramandeep Singh Malhotra
3. TEDdy talks with Ramandeep and Vishwa
4. Cloud CDing – Ramandeep Singh
5. 2G-Scam,
6. Oil Price Scam in India^[5]
7. Politicians and their Black money in Swiss Banks^[6]
8. Coal mining Scam^[7][8]

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