INDIA NEEDS A ANNA HAZARE TO AWAKEN IT. WE HAVE A HISTORY OF AWAKENNING AND RENAISSANCE. WE HAVE ALSO THE HISTORY OF HIBERNATION. AFTER ALL IT IS A COUNTRY OF LORD RAM AND SITA WHERE HANUMAN JI IS NEEDED TO REMIND HIM OF HIS STRENGTH OTHERWISE HE REMAINS OBLIVIOUS TO HIS CAPABILITIES. SAME APPLIES TO JANATA JANARDAN OF THIS COUNTRY.WE HAVE BEEN LUCKY TO FIND A ANNA HAZARE OTHERWISE WE WOULD HAVE REMAINED RESIGNED AND OBLIVIOUS TO OURSELVES. ANNA HAS BEEN INSTRUMENTAL TO CREATE AWAKENING OF SENSE OF RESPONSIBILITY IN INDIAN PUBLIC WHICH HAS NOT BEEN LIKED BY OUR WORTHY POLITICIANS. THOUGH THEY PROFESS EVERYTHING TO DO IN THE INTEREST OF THE NATION BUT IN PRACTICE THEY FOLLOW MOST OF THE THINGS WHICH ARE NOT IN THE NATIONAL INTEREST. IT IS NOT SURPRISING THAT POLITICAL CLASS HAS EMERGED AS A VILLIAN IN THIS COMPLETE EPISODE.
A PHASE OF EUPHORIA IS GOING ON IN INDIAN CIVIC LIFE. THIS IS THE POSITIVE CONTRIBUTION OF MOVEMENT SPEARHEADED BY ANNA HAZARE BUT WILL THIS SPILLAGE OF EMOTIONS WOULD INITIATE A REGENERATION OF INDIAN SOCIETY, THERE IS DOUBT ABOUT THIS. IN FACT IT IS VERY EASY FOR US TO BLAME A PERSON OR CLASS FOR ALL OF OUR MALADIES, ILLS,MISRIES ETC. WE INDIANS ARE EXTREMIST IN ONE SENSE. WHATEVER WE DO OR WE THINK WE TAKE IT TO EXTREMES. I MEAN BOTH THE END. SO WHEN WE IGNORE- ANYTHING OF BIGGEST POSSIBLE MAGNITUDE CAN BE IGNORED. BUT WHEN WE NOTE OR ASSIGN A HAPPENING TO A CAUSE- WE ASSIGN EVERYTHING TO IT. TODAY THE CORRUPTION HAS BECOME THE BIGGEST ISSUE, WHY IT IS SO? BECAUSE WHEN WE WERE IN IGNORANCE MODE, WE HAVE IGNORED THIS MALADY TO THE FULLEST EXTENT. NOW SINCE WE ARE AWAKENED THEN WE ARE BENT UPON TO SUBSCRIBE EVERY ILL TO CORRUPTION. THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR SPREADING CORRUPTION HAS NOW BEEN ASSIGNED TO POLITICIAN IN FULL. THEY ARE THE MAJOR BENEFICIARY OF CORRUPTION BUT THEY ARE NOT THE SOLE BENEFICIARY .
ARE WE AS INDIAN PEOPLE AND INDIAN SOCIETY NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS? ARE WE OURSELVES NOT THE BENEFICIARY OF CORRUPTION? IN MOST OF THE PERCENTAGE WE ARE SUFERER AS WELL AS THE BENEFICIATY BOTH. HOW COME THE CORRUPTION HAS BECOME WAY OF LIFE OF INDIAN PEOPLE OVER THE YEARS AND INDIANS ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR IT. LET ME TELL YOU THAT POLITICIANS ARE ONLY THE SMALL CLASS OF INDIAN SOCIETY. HOW CAN POLITICAL CLASS REPRESENT A DIFFERENT VALUE THAN THE VALUE OF THE SOCIETY TO WHICH IT BELONGS. IT IS JUST NOT POSSIBLE. THE POINT OF WORRY IS THAT THE CORRUPTION HAS BECOME A CULTURE IN OUR SOCIETY. WE HAVE ACCEPTED THAT MORE THE CONCENTRATION OF POWER MORE THE FINANCIAL STATUS AND MORE THE ACCUMULATION OF BLACK MONEY. IT IS NOT A SECRET. WHY CERTAIN JOBS ARE ASSIGNED MORE VALUE IN THE SOCIETY? IF YOU EXAMINE THEN YOU FIND THAT IN THE CORE IS THE POSSIBILITY OF GENERATION OF BLACK MONEY WHICH IN OUR PARLANCE IS KNOWN AS NUMBER 2 INCOME. WHY IT IS SO THAT RESEARCH ORIENTED OR TEACHING JOBS ARE FOUND LESS LUCRATIVE BY A PROSPECTIVE FATHER-IN-LAW LOOKING FOR A GROOM FOR HER DAUGHTER AS COMPARED TO A JUNIOR ENGINEER OR A CLERK OF FOOD CORPORATION OF INDIA OR A CLERK OF LAND REGISTRATION DEPARTMENT OR SO ON. THIS INDICATES THAT CORRUPTION HAS BECOME WAY OF LIFE IN OUR SOCIETY.
WE SHOULD NOT TRY TO FOOL OURSELVES. WE CANNOT HAVE DUAL STANDARD IN THE MATTER OF CORRUPTION. IT IS VERY EASY TO BLAME POLITICAL CLASS FOR EVERY MISERY ARISING OUT OF CORRUPTION IN OUR SOCIETY BUT IN REALITY WE HAVE TO BLAME OURSELVES AS POLITY TOO. WHY WE HAVE ALLOWED OUR SOCIETY TO DEGENERATE INTO SUCH A PATHETIC CONDITION WHERE CORRUPTION HAS CREPT INTO OUR CULTURE. IF WE THINK THAT BY BLAMING POLITICAL CLASS FOR THE ISSUE OF CORRUPTION SOLELY, WE ARE DOING ANY SERVICE TO OUR SOCIETY THEN WE ARE MISTAKEN. WE ARE STILL CLOSING OUR EYES AND WE DO NOT WANT TO SEE THE TRUTH. THE NAKED TRUTH IS THAT WE ARE EQUALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS MESS LIKE OUR BERTHERN POLITICAL CLASS. THE POWER TO POLITICAL CLASS IS DERIVED FROM PEOPLE AND THE FACT IS THAT PEOPLE ARE CORRUPT. SO HOW CORRUPTION CAN BE WEEDED OUT OF OUR SOCIETY UNTILL WE MAKE OURSELVES FREE OF CORRUPTION. THERE IS GREATER PROBITY NEEDED IN OUR PERSONAL, CIVIC AND SOCIAL LIFE.IT IS GOOD THAT PROBABLY INDIAN MASSES ARE NOW REALISING THIS FACT AND THERE MAY BE SOME CHANGES TOWARDS BETTERMENT IN OUR SOCIETY IN YEARS TO COME BUT NOTHING IS GOING TO HAPPEN OVERNIGHT. A THING WHICH HAS BEEN CREATED OVER YEARS CAN NOT BE UNDONE IN JUST FEW DAYS. THERE IS THE LONG BATTLE TO BE FOUGHT WITHIN OURSELVES IN OUR SOCIRTY. IT IS GOOD THAT WE ARE OURSELVES TORMENTORS AND TORMENTED AS WELL. SO IT IS UPTO US TO DECIDE AS TO WHAT WE WANT TO LEAVE FOR OUR POSTERITY.
THERE IS ANOTHER FACET TO THE ISSUE OF CORRUPTION. RECENTLY JUSTICE SOUMITRA SEN WAS IMPEACHED FOR FINANCIAL IMPROPRIETY IN HIS CIVIC LIFE. WAS HE THE FIRST JUDGE TO BE CHRGED FOR THE CORRUPT PRACTICE? THE ANSWER IS BIG NO. YES, OF COURSE HE WAS THE FIRST JUDGE TO FACE IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS. A JUDGE WHO WAS NOT READY TO BUDGE EVEN AN INCH AGAINST THE CHARGES OF CORRUPTION EARLIER COULD NOT EVEN FACE THE LOK SABHA. THE NATION HAS SEEN HIM FACING BRAVELY THE RAJYA SABHA, THEN WHAT HAPPENED AFTER THAT? THE ANSWER LIES IN THE PROCEEDINGS CONDUCTED IN THE RAJYA SABHA. AN ALLEGATION WAS MADE IN RAJYA SABHA AGAINST THE FORMER CHIEF JUSTICE OF INDIA WHO WAS CHARGED BY JUSTICE SOUMITRA SEN TO PLAY THE ROLE OF ACCUSER, JUDGE AND CONSPIRATOR IN THIS CASE. EVERYBODY WAS PRESENT IN THE HOUSE RIGHT FROM PRIME MINISTER. EVERYBODY LISTENED TO IT BUT NO BODY TOOK A COGNISANCE OF IT. WHAT HAPPENED AFTER THAT IS EVEN MORE SHOCKING.
IS THERE ANY FORUM HIGHER THAN THE PARLIAMENT IN OUR COUNTRY? IN A COUNTRY WHERE THE PRINCIPLE OF LEGAL JURISPRUDENCE STIPULATES THAT A INNOCENT SHOULD NOT GET A PUNISHMENT ALBEIT HUNDRED OFFENDERS ARE FREED IN THE PROCE3SS, WHAT WAS DEMONSTRATED BY THE PARLIAMMENT IS POLE APART. WHY SUCH A IMPATHETIC ATTITUDE? WAS IT NOT NECESSARY FOR THE HOUSE TO EXAMINE THE CHRGES BEFORE RESORTING TO VOTING IN IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS ON PRE-DETERMINED LINES. SHOULD WE NOT EXPECT OUR LAW MAKERS TO FOLLOW THE LAW OF THE LAND ENACTED BY THEM? WHAT HARM COULD HAVE BEEN CAUSED TO THE NATION IF THE ALLEGATIONS WERE EXAMINED FIRST AND THEREAFTER THE CONCLUSIONS WERE DERIVED ? WHEN CORRUPT WILL JUDGE THE CORRUPT THEN SUCH THINGS ARE BOUND TO HAPPEN . MAY BE OUR POLITICAL CLASS MIGHT HAVE SEEN AN OPPORTUNITY TO DEMONSTRATE THAT THEY ARE ONE CUT ABOVE THAN THE CORRUPT JUDGE SITTING IN THE CAGE. THIS MIGHT GIVE THEM A SENSE OF SATISFACTION THAT MINE SHIRT IS MORE WHITE THAN YOURS. JUSTICE SOUMITRA SEN MIGHT HAVE FELT HELPLESS AND MAY HAVE EXPECTED NO BETTER TREATMENT FROM THE OTHER HOUSE OF THE PARLIAMENT AND MUST HAVE RESIGNED TO HIS FATE.
THIS SHOWS , HOW DEEP ROOTED ARE THE ROOTS OF CORRUPTION IN OUR POLITY AND SOCIETY. SINCE CORRUPTION DOES NOT ENCOMPASSE ONLY FINANCIAL PROBITY BUT IT COVERS OUR CONDUCT TOO WITH DESIRED TRANSPARENCY. THIS IS MORE IMPORTANT FOR THOSE WHO HAVE PUBLIC LIFE AND WHO ARE TAKEN AS ROLE MODEL BY MASSES IN GENERAL. IF ANY PERCEPTIBLE CHANGE IS TO BE BROUGHT IN THE PRESENT DAY SCENARIO, IT WILL NEED HERCULIAN FFORTS AND CONSIDERABLE TIME. DEFINITELY NO CHANGE IS GOING TO TAKE PLACE OVERNIGHT AS EXPECTATION OF MASSES IS. LET US SEE, HOW DOES THE PICTURE OF FUTURE INDIA UNFOLDS IN THE YEARS TO COME. TILL THEN LET US HOPE FOR THE BEST.
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