Link to the post: http://jitendragahlot.blogspot.com/2008/12/corruption-is-in-our-blood.html
The whole scenario we are following is in the blood , no doubts, somewhere we are always there to nurture it. In recent atttacks in Mumbai on 11/26, (according to The Telegraph, UK) the time right before 18 hours when last terrorist was shot Southern Army Commander visited the scene with his wife and they were inside Taj when operations were going on...this is one part of the story, the other is, we feel repulsed when a Chief Minister takes his son and his friends for a round of disaster tourism after the NSG operations are over. The much reprobated politician got the boot for his insensitivity and callousness. What do we suppose to perceive from that ?
Should the General be treated differently from the politicians who took his family for the same disaster tourism and he is soon going to be the second seniormost General in the Army , that is Vice Chief, in a couple of weeks or so ? I leave this to your discretion and to the people who might be reading this comment. We should know for ourselves how biased is the corruption within us is ? I leave it for your conscience tour.
Secondly, when you have talked about the corruption from past centuries you have hit the perfect nerve of the system.
Here I am adding an excerpt :
"Because we love to hate ourselves while walking in the shoes of the colonial masters. We treat our own people with the same contempt and distrust as the British and previous rulers did. Our laws governing publication of a book and a newspaper, policing are same or directly derived from the nineteenth-century British laws which were created for a subjugated people to be strangulated for wanting to be free. They treated Indian Army men inferior to the firangs and gave them discriminatory salaries, using them as tools to strengthen colonial rule, yet the Indian Army celebrates with honour their predecessor British officers, Raising Days and Victory Days. That’s our sense of a national legacy of heroes and war-victories. It’s nothing but a manifestation of self-negation overpowering self-realisation."
And we feel pride while doing all this, do we still need to tell anyone else out there that we are still carrying their legacy in our own Independent Country. I dont think we need to, its evident as rightly remarked, is in the blood or to add upto this, it is in the genes.
Now the thing that is left is How did we learn to do this so efficiently and magnanimously?
The answer is, that the Customs are Accepted or habitual practices and Etiquettes are Rules governing socially acceptable behaviour and that form a miniscule part of the organisational traditions but the substantial part of our lives.
And this is the Thumb Rule for Our Society !!
Nothing else can drive us better...!!
About changing the world and all the souls who wails for the SAMPOORNA KRANTI including me and as JP is quoted in your blog, he was one our kinds or to be precise we are one of his kinds when we talk about Revolution, it is a nice romantic dream to bawl about, but we need to ascertain real workable options that have to succeed against insuperable odds. Where do we start?
We need to define the philosophy to redeem the situation..
So we are here to answer this vexed question standing for all these centuries. All valuable contributions from all the commentators should might pave the way to at least few of our questions.. so lets start this wonderfully exciting and explorative journey..
May our Corrupt souls do stand together for this 'sacred and positive corruption' of ongoing system and practices...
Amen...
3 comments:
Hello Aarti,
It has been a great add on to my article “Corruption is in our Blood”. You have successfully articulated the situations in the your response. In no ways General can be treated differently then a sacked chief minister for his disaster tourism. However Chief minister is a visible face but general is not. So most of the people, might not noticed this situation and I am also amongst the one who came to know from your blog only. There are responsible people, and responsible layers in our system, which should really take this as case of further investigation and if General found guilty, we need to take necessary action. If not, I would definitely consider this as case of corruption and negligence in the society.
The point, which you and I are trying to bring in, is very simple, situations and our responses to those situations are double edge swords. Due to corruption, we gain in short term but we lose in long terms. These entire big businessmen lobby, not only big but also on average every one, do corruption. They pay to every one from bottom to top, and when situation like 11/26 comes they behave as some one else responsibilities. Reliance was greatest example and shows our entire character. The saga of Dhirubhai Ambani, can be painted in golden and platinum colors, but no one can deny his ability to mend the system in his favor actually corrupted the nation. And not only Ambanis, whole system was responsible and we as national behaved as ‘Ostrich’. If Army, Police, bureaucrats and politicians are not following in the line of their duty, it is we as society responsible for that.
You rightly took the case to highest level, when you say, it is not only in our blood, but its in our genes. Habits and conditioning of centuries will not die so soon, but someone at some point of time has to take the necessary action. SAMPOORN KRANTI is not a distant dream; it is a required reality of our country. The Dreams of JP died because of followers (as always followers are blind). JP gave the dream to people like Jagjeevan ram and Charan Singh. There are some capable leaders also, but ultimately the old habits clearly scored on Morarji and Vajpayee. Democracy must have cried with bloody tears in this country during 1980’ when Indira Gandhi had won the election.
Sacred soul of corruption requires a death penalty as it has lived long. Longer then expected. And nation should see this as priority even before Afzal guru.
Reply to Rohit Saxena...
Hi Rohit,
A decent variety of books you have been reading !!!!! Its a pleasure to share this platform with you...
Its been a great teaser to have your so IT (Islamic Terror) infested views on the current topic.. But what I could not understand is that the person who is been reading Paulo Coelho, Swami Vivekananda, A great believer in Srimad Bhagwad Geeta, who respects views of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu can talk like a fanatic and yet forgot the drops of oil on his spoon too..
I donno how your views should be taken as you believe something else and yet behave like a total fanatic. We are not here to create an Anti Islam lobby as you followed in your comments but we expect a better and conservative politically, socially and for you specially, of course, spiritually correct viewpoint...not to blame religions to satiate and neutralise our frustrations...
You say you follow Geeta.. but look what you have been sayin above in your comments.. Geeta never taught anybody to be "anti particular religion or genre"... and who knows it better than Sri Krishna how much tactical he had been all through giving all the opportunities to the Kauravas and went in as far as asking for just 5 villages for Pandavas before Mahabharata..
He did all his duties and never spared anyone beyond a limit...
This is where we are standing at...at the Doorstep of a Great Change in Thought process.
Secondly, no one including top investigating agencies can testify the authenticity or correctness of religion of any of the terrorists who has been involved in any of the terror attacks worldwide so far being prudishly Islamic..
Lets take another viewpoint.. What would you like to say about those few who impersonate as terrorists (Islamic) and kill people in disguise, they could be of any religion or caste or creed.. They could be one of those who might be fighting for the resurrection of Dharma in their conscience.. sayin Yada Yada Hi Dharmasya Glanir Bhavati Bharata.. No IT involved ??
I appreciate that you are a reader of good books and we do expect you to share your knowledge and intellect you have achieved so far.. dont be just a reader be a believer and make believe it.
To Rohit Saxena,
And yes whatever you have added is blindly telling Arun Shourie's ideas and investigations he did to write "Eminent Historians". No doubts its a great work, but to you ,its just a comment of which you yourself doesnt seem to conceive the very basic idea underlying.. Verbal Terrorism is equally destructive !!!
This is the first thought that comes on everybody's mind is... Right from 632 AD when Muslims started arriving in India it started a series of murders, destructions, massacres etc etc in the name of Holy War. They could do it, because we allowed them to do it..
And there is no point repeating invasions on India since 632 AD and getting bullish on it, because we cant go back to undo that. We were equally a part to that. Because we could not stand up. We need to take corrective measures my dear friend, for what we have already lost and what all we are on verge of losing.
If you see as a matter of fact life gives us a choice at every juncture either to accept what is being offerred or make you own path to tread, which we always declined to do or shunned away in the disguise of submission or fear or alliances.
And as said, History repeats itelf and gives us opportunity, if cant undo the past, then at least redo the future which we have seen with earlier "No Efforts Idiosyncracy" in past and present.
This is about redoing the future, so that we do not discuss these same issues 50 years or say 100 years down the line being a part of that same erroneous history we designed..
Still No IT involved !!!!!
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