It went and kissed my living breath

It was not born with me,

Nor my body was made to sustain it

It never helped me to improve myself emotionally or intelligently

It is not at all a companion during my sorrows or my victories

Every moment I took it in to my hands it waged a war on me

It suffocated my body, it contaminated my blood

It went and kissed my living breath and whispered death

Ohh how many times I called myself a fool

For buying cancer and carrying it in my pocket

Ohh! How many times I asked myself why is it so difficult to quit

Why is it so difficult to stop pumping nicotine into my lungs?

All through I knew that I can do anything I want to with it,

I can light, I can kiss it, I can crush it

All I forgot is that I can  tell that it is the dust bin where you should go

NOT MY BODY – now I am saying   :-)

Hypocrites have no right to ask for a clean system

I have asked myself so many times before writing this, as in if I have moral right to make a statement like that, the answer was yes predominantly, hence here you go.

Why am I writing this?

After Supreme court gave the verdict barring individuals from contesting elections if they are jailed, i started thinking about how much good/bad this can do for Indian democracy, i am elated with the verdict because of the reason that it will  stop at least a few Mughals of corruption and criminals. But in the  the process of thinking the sociological aspect from where corruption/crime draws its first living cell amused me.I would like to pen it here and leave it for your good senses to say right or wrong but after dealing with the flip side of the decision.

It is a great decision, but we all know our respected politicians are extremely efficient in abusing power and satisfy their vengeance against rivals. We have seen in the past an old man got arrested in the midnight, similar things happened in Andhra Pradesh too. So if the current party in power is hopeless and has not done anything for the people and on the verge of losing in next elections, all they will do is - use their power and get opposition leaders behind the bars under a serious offence. Hence this needs to be discussed in wider forums and needs to be made robust in a way it is not abused.

Now going back to my statement:

How many acts/verdicts like these will bring in change? How may policemen we think we need to clean up the system?

Have a look at the report of transparency international, none of the so called powerful nations with hi-tech police system, judicial mechanism are not featuring in to 15, for more details see here

Rank	Country	Score	Surveys Used	CI: Lower	CI: Upper
1	Denmark	90	7	87	93
1	Finland	90	7	85	95
1	New Zealand	90	7	87	94
4	Sweden	88	7	85	91
5	Singapore	87	9	83	90
6	Switzerland	86	6	81	90
7	Australia	85	8	83	86
7	Norway	85	7	82	87
9	Canada	84	7	80	87
9	Netherlands	84	7	81	88
11	Iceland	82	6	75	89
12	Luxembourg	80	6	75	85
13	Germany	79	8	75	83
14	Hong Kong	77	8	74	80
15	Barbados	76	3	65	87

You can’t bring in positive change even if you get an act every minute, even if we employ police double of our population, change will come only through large scale social reforms and change will come only through cleaning the system from the roots. When I say this I am not referring to large scale movements like Anna Hazare is doing because of the reason that though I believe Anna Hazare I don’t trust those thousands of people gathering and chanting for him. I am not being cynical here, let me tell you my personal experience, While I was in college we started a youth association our aim was to conduct programs to spread the spirit of National unity, encourage students and community service. We ran this successfully for a period of 3 years till time of general elections, during elections time number political parties approached us to support them and canvas for them by offering gifts and stuff like that – because you know we all had voting right and we were a large group of educated youth, being the president it was my strict decision that we won’t accept anything from anybody and do not support anybody. But after few days I got to know that my friends have taken a cricket kit, that’s all I quit. The Irony the same group of people who sold their votes for a cricket kit and continue to do so started postings on Facebook supporting Anna Hazare recently. The whole mechanism is working like this, people think that it is ok if I take something from politicians but they should serve us with honesty. If we can’t wither away this hypocrisy, we will remain nothing but a bunch of hypocrites craving for fair society. The whole India need to ask the following very simple questions before asking for a clean system

a)      If you are demanding for dowry – do you have the right to ask for a fair society, isn’t this system of dowry causing deaths of lakhs of women across country – suicides or killed by in-laws/husband, isn’t it one of the key reason why crime rate in India is going up?

b)      How many of us like having a baby girl? or wish to kill her in the womb itself? And bribe doctors to do that? Doctors are coming to us to do this, we are going to them. Isn’t it the most criminal activity manifestation in a different way?

c)      If I am luring an official with money for a work I am not supposed get or for a job for which I am not eligible for– do I have the right to ask for a clean system?

d)      How many of us got our driving licenses by throwing bribes? Why do we have given it? Because we cannot pass the test, because we do not quite know how to drive

e)      Apart from voting (40% of them won’t even do this) what is my contribution to the village/city/colony I am living in?

f)       How many of us are evading taxes?

g)      How many of the politically active youth are hiding behind the ideology of HINDU,MUSLIM,COMMUNIST etc though you know it is not going to work out , it is the correct way – just to achieve your personal ambitions, breaking rules, setting buses on fire, conspiring murders/kidnaps

h)      How many of us vote to XYZ because he/she belongs to particular caste?

It is we who made it look ugly, it is we who created this suffocation, and it is definitely we who invited this violence. It does not make sense when you are shaking the foundations and asking for strong building. If you are not fair, you have not right to ask for being treated fairly

All of them who crossed the age of 16 are the children of this so called corrupted ill society. It is not wise to have any hope on that generation. Let us focus on children under 15 years,, let them learn good things at school, let us give them an opportunity to strengthen their wings, let us give them confidence to live on their own, let us teach to respect others, let us teach them good and bad – because we know the bad very well, we have been seeing this all through our lives, we contributed to it.

Let us allow children to born whether boy or a girl. Let them grow hearing you don’t have to cheat anyone to become strong, you  don’t have bribe anyone to get what you are eligible for, that you don’t live long enough hence it is not worth enough to commit crimes for living, Beg don’t steal, borrow don’t threaten.