Watch any news channel on TV and they are talking about corruption. Read any newspaper and it’s full of graft charges. Log into twitter and you find people who believe every party is corrupt and full of criminals except the one which they support.
As a common Indian I am angry and more than angry I am baffled. How did I vote for such cronies who treat politics as a business? It’s not that India is a unique country facing corruption on such a rampant scale. If you think our Indian politicians are bad then just look at Pakistan.
It’s not that corruption became visible just in the last few months or years. I am sure when my father was young the politicians were corrupt and my father indulged in mini-corruption by bribing the ticket checker in railways to get an unoccupied berth, I too have done the same few times and looking at the way corruption has become part of the government machinery I think my children will do the same (unless they joins politics, get elected to public offices and become beneficiary of some railway quota so that instead of mini they can do real corruption. Unfortunately, this is highly doubtful because I plan to educate my kids and try my best to keep them away from criminal elements.)
Every third or fourth day Arvind Kejriwal comes on tv and says this politician is corrupt. Congress says Kejriwal is BJP’s agent; BJP says Kejriwal is Congress’s agent; and Digvijay Singh (using the time tested foreign hand theory) says Kejriwal has got a contract from foreign agencies to clean Indian politics. I don’t trust anyone of them because as a common Indian one lesson I have learned after so many years of disappointment from our leaders is that never to trust them. The foreign hand interested in damaging India is usually imaginary and most of our problems remain unsolved because our politicians waste time and resources on foreign trips.
Abraham Lincoln said, “Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people”. It is us and not our enemies sitting in Pakistan who elected these politicians to the position of power. The solution to our problem is not television fights but better governance which we can have by punishing the corrupt and ensuring safeguards that public money gets spend on public and not private good. I know this is easier said than done. When my father was young he had the same thoughts and today he understands the system and finds bribery though a cancer of society ensures that the work gets done. Today as a young Indian I am writing a blog telling you corruption is bad but the next time a traffic cop stops me for violating a traffic rule I am gonna say, “Sir, I accept my mistake and I am extremely sorry. Isn’t there anyway through which we can adjust this? Thank you”.
To sum up
Corruption is the cancer of our society which is spreading because just like smokers we are doing things which are heavily injurious to our health.
