Continuing on the lines of my post regarding 'A letter to the corrupt'

A follow-up my latest blog

http://www.corruptionfree.in/

I salute these kids. They are in the true sense, Indian Idols.

RESPECT.....

P.S. Thanks Aditya.

A letter to the corrupt

Spoiler Alert: This is not an article to fuel a political fire. I am not here to “Government Bash” or to support the opposition {they are after all, two sides of the same coin}. This is also not a pro-Anna {RESPECT} dissertation of how our country should reform. Dr. Hazare and his baby-project are idly waiting in the pipeline for Amar singh, kalmadi and several other gossip stories to clear up before the media has nothing else but to telecast what has now become “TRP-less coverage” for the time being. If there is something I want to speak out against, it’s the news channels. A sincere request, if you really want to give us expert advice, let it be on how we can work towards making a better tomorrow. Madhuri dixit’s return to India is NOT Breaking News. More on that later.

Getting back to context, I wish to speak my mind out to you today. Everytime we read/watch the news about a certain aberration in our government, any scandal or malpractice, it hurts to know that “My own hard-earned money” is being misused. Our country is facing a series of national security level problems. Ironically speaking, even though we get patriotically stirred when something happens right in our own backyard, we are still impassive if not as heartless as the miscreants responsible. “Kashmir mein toh har din jawaan apni jaan kurbaan kar rahe hain, I salute the brave who are selflessly throwing their lives.” And that’s the end of the topic there. The world goes on. But when the Mumbai blasts happened, we had candlelight marches for over a month and a two year long trial of one of the biggest celebrities of our country, a certain Mr. Ajmal Kasab. So tell me, are you really patriotic??? I do not question candle marches, I am not questioning whether they make a difference or not, but do you think your duty as a citizen of India ends after a candle march???

Now I get back to the central point which is Corruption. It is no surprise to any person residing in India or abroad regarding the corruption problem in our country. It is acute and something which has worsened by the day. The amount of black money which has been kept under wraps can reform villages, make us financially the 12^th richest country, solve road problems and I can illustrate 20 more facts with regards to this. My question is: Do you really want to get rid of corruption??? Is it important to get rid of corruption only at the administrative level?? I know by now you may be of the opinion that the government has to be inhuman and heartless for being responsible for such high levels of corruption. But this is the “Mr. Hyde” which we ourselves have created today. Today, bribe s looked as a mode of convenience rather than a illegal infraction. What is the harm in bribing a cop just to skip the legal hassle and doing rounds at the police station, what is wrong if you get a government document pushed a little quicker than standard protocol? We are after all the “common man”, the same oppressed common man who is tired of the corruption, tired of bad roads, tired of the crowds in buses & trains, tired of waiting for his/her pension, tired of trying to make ends meet in the legal and correct way. So we bending the law just to make sure we can make ends meet should not be looked upon as grass-root level corruption, it should be looked upon as an a righteous act. Shouldn’t it?

And then we vote and get our candidates a seat because we believe he is clean or rather, cleaner than the rest. Well, even if you have given Rs.1 as a bribe in your life, your candidate is already worth Rs.1000. The point is that if we are not clean ourselves, don’t expect the person who administers the law for you to be clean. Today, our system is corrupt because of us. The government is just a reflection of us. We are a democracy and the government we create is a reflection of our minds. But when something goes against “our plan”, all we do is talk. This has to stop. Till you don’t eliminate corruption at your personal level, you cannot expect any government elected by you to be non-corrupt. And till you cannot get this beast out of your life, don’t vote. Yes, this is the strongest statement I am making. DON’T VOTE. If you cannot reform your own mind, you do not have the right to pick a government to take care of our country.

Yes, I am also talking right now. But this is the last time I am going to do so. I have to make an earnest effort to get this devil out of my life. Yes, my country has bad roads today. Yes, my country’s government is busy fighting its own internal conflicts than looking at its people’s welfare. But there has to be change and there will be. This is not a lecture I am giving you. It is something I have been telling myself for quite some time now. And you should too. We are the “Gen-next” as they call it. If we can make sure we ourselves are non-corrupt, then our candidates by default will be non-corrupt. Then only can you expect to have a non-corrupt government. You are the solution to all problems of our country, not literacy, not population awareness, not employment and not the economic divide. It is time to bring it in to effect.

I apologize if I said something that offends you because these thoughts are a result of my own introspection. I am flawed, but I am ready to change. If I can change, we can change.

This is to inform everyone that I am sort-of revamping my Blog. All the old topics haven been removed. The older thoughts now rest in the archives of my own mind now.

Times change and thoughts change and I do not see myself thinking the way I did in the past. Hence, for all you readers, I will hopefully be coming up with more creative writing than usual.

More about this in the days to come. I will let my actions and my words speak for myself.