Quotes/thoughts that come to mind on K.M. Mani’s fall:

“All power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts       absolutely.” 

Lord Acton, in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, 1887.

"Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an officer". 

                              William Shakespeare: King Henry

            

       “The evil that men do lives after them; 

        the good is oft interred with their bones.” 

                                       William Shakespeare: Julius Caesar.

Biju Ramesh:

Friends, Mallus, countrymen, lend me your ears.

I come to bury Mani, not to praise him.

The evil that men do lives after them;

The good is oft interrèd with their bones.

Humpty Dumpty

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
All the king's horses and all the King's men
Couldn't put Humpty Dumpty together again

There are many folklores associated with this nursery rhyme. The rhyme refers to King Richard III and his defeat at the battle of Bosworth. Others believe that Humpty Dumpty was based on the sudden catastrophic fall of Cardinal Wolsey from Henry VIII era. The cardinal became ill on the way to his trial and soon died. He was Henry’s most trusted friend for a long time until Ann Boleyn appeared on the scene and turned Henry against him. No one expected him to be toppled so quickly.