Dedications

It looks like an alarm has rung and suddenly everyone in India has awoken to the fact that our political machinery, its mechanism and people who run the system are corrupt. Suddenly you will have an Azim Premji who screams hoarse saying “Enough is enough”, and gets into verbal diarrhea mode of how much corruption is effecting the country. Mr. Premji, India is not a division of Wipro that you employ a CEO and then sack them if things don’t work out. If you want a change you be a part of the system, and not just appoint a CEO (political party) to do the work for us. The problem is we all want someone else to do it for us.

Why can’t the business community wise men for a change come together to help in nation building rather that just flaunting their occasional philanthropical gestures to showcase their fake patriotism, or commenting and criticizing the system. Most of the alleged good business community leaders if they decide to float a political party, the support would be phenomenal, as everyone if fed up and frustrated. Alternatively they could throw their support behind a Party called the ‘Professionals Party of India’. Not that I support or endorse them, but atleast if they end up corrupt they would be ‘professionally corrupt’. The current bunch of politicians are ruthlessly corrupt. Maybe we could think of voting Baba Ramdeo’s floated political party. On his level if there is corruption it would be ‘spiritually corrupt’, which would be far less to the ugly corruption we are faced with. At the end of the day if we want to fool ourselves saying we can wipe out corruption, then we can keep dreaming. What we can do is to explore options to minimize it.

Corruption is another form of colonization of our country which can be only tackled with a revolution. Egypt is a clear case of the way our country will one day explode. Just the size of our country and our population, we tend ignore the sparks that is waiting to start an inferno. Self immolation of people out of frustration is not something new. Since we are so immune even such acts of desperation we are even blind to it. Starvation deaths are like a regular feature and we read like as if it is an ongoing cartoon strip. Why are there starvation deaths when food grains are rotting in the warehouses? As long as we are not the victim, its fine and this apathy is what will cause our doom very soon.

Come to think of it, are we not responsible for the mess? Most of us (at least I have) bribed our way through a traffic cop, bribed our way get a certificate from a Municipal office, bribed our way through for registering a house, getting a driving license, practically everything that needs an interaction with a government or municipal body, we have to bribe, to get the work done or to get it done fast. We have become so numb to the problem that we have accepted it as a part of the system, and give in. We take solace in the fact that at least the work gets done, and move on. We don’t want to challenge the system as then it would be inviting trouble. So it is like an old saying “why trouble ‘trouble’, if trouble doesn’t trouble us, coz if we trouble ‘trouble’, trouble will always trouble us’. So we avoid the trouble.

It’s time we challenged trouble, coz if we don’t challenge trouble, 'trouble' will finish us. On that tongue twister, hoping we could untwist the noose of corruption slowly choking us.