CWG, 2G and Graft
We have our daily dose of the scams, scandals and the corruption charges. To borrow the word from my friend Srinivas, we have our preoccupation with the GAFLAs(a hindi translation to the word SCAM). So much so that our appetite for the new gaflas is increasing with each passing day and we gratify by reading and knowing about more and more scams happening in this nation. Trust our politicians, they would never let us down. They all would ensure that we do not starve and get disheartened by not giving us something new gafla to read and crib about. What is the end result, is anybody's guess. We write, talk, read, discuss, watch elaborately about the gafla till the time we find someone unearthing a new one from thin air.
We hear so much about a particular scam and start counting zeros in the gafla amount. Then we start justifying, based upon our own personal affiliations, leanings and beliefs that this gafla is bigger than the previous ones and so it is worth cribbing about. Then the justifications come with the riders that the other party/person was no less a tainted person than this party/person. Newsprint in tonnes is consumed to publish the related stories and we as responsible and responsive citizens of this country, start discussing it threadbare and get agitated with the quantum of the money involved in the gafla.
When we go out and try to get some work done in a government office, we come to a face-to-face encounter with the graft. It appears to me that slowly but steadily we are accepting the bitter pill of graft with a sugar coat over it. It is okay if I am not at the receiving end; everybody does it, what if I am also one among them; this is relatively smaller when compared to several others among others will clear our conscience. Do we in any significant way contribute to the eradication of this evil called corruption! I do not think so. Our political clan represents us in that very sense. If we are all against graft, how come we get these scamsters as our leaders and rulers. Maybe we do not go to vote, may be we vote to undeserved ones because they have oiled our palms, may be we vote because we want a lesser evil, may be we vote for a neta because our sarkaari jobs are secure because of his jiyo aur jeenedo policy. Whatever it is, it will bottom down to our mindsets.
There is this neta who does petty JOBS and DEMANDS Coolie money for his jobs. Poor fellow he is not asking any fortune from the industrialists. He just takes 5 - 30 lakh rupees for his painful and laborious tasks of loading iron rods in an auto or physically carrying a plateful of sand at a construction site. We support him because he will get us a state where we can get the sarkaari jobs in which we get more coolie of his type than the actual salary. We want goons and rowdysheeters to rule us so that our work in need could be done with elan! Let us stop counting the zeros in the latest scam and start zeroing on the root cause of the evil, gafla. Otherwise we have this corollary, "yathaa praja, tatha raaja".
We hear so much about a particular scam and start counting zeros in the gafla amount. Then we start justifying, based upon our own personal affiliations, leanings and beliefs that this gafla is bigger than the previous ones and so it is worth cribbing about. Then the justifications come with the riders that the other party/person was no less a tainted person than this party/person. Newsprint in tonnes is consumed to publish the related stories and we as responsible and responsive citizens of this country, start discussing it threadbare and get agitated with the quantum of the money involved in the gafla.
When we go out and try to get some work done in a government office, we come to a face-to-face encounter with the graft. It appears to me that slowly but steadily we are accepting the bitter pill of graft with a sugar coat over it. It is okay if I am not at the receiving end; everybody does it, what if I am also one among them; this is relatively smaller when compared to several others among others will clear our conscience. Do we in any significant way contribute to the eradication of this evil called corruption! I do not think so. Our political clan represents us in that very sense. If we are all against graft, how come we get these scamsters as our leaders and rulers. Maybe we do not go to vote, may be we vote to undeserved ones because they have oiled our palms, may be we vote because we want a lesser evil, may be we vote for a neta because our sarkaari jobs are secure because of his jiyo aur jeenedo policy. Whatever it is, it will bottom down to our mindsets.
There is this neta who does petty JOBS and DEMANDS Coolie money for his jobs. Poor fellow he is not asking any fortune from the industrialists. He just takes 5 - 30 lakh rupees for his painful and laborious tasks of loading iron rods in an auto or physically carrying a plateful of sand at a construction site. We support him because he will get us a state where we can get the sarkaari jobs in which we get more coolie of his type than the actual salary. We want goons and rowdysheeters to rule us so that our work in need could be done with elan! Let us stop counting the zeros in the latest scam and start zeroing on the root cause of the evil, gafla. Otherwise we have this corollary, "yathaa praja, tatha raaja".
YOU ARE TAKING TOO MUCH TIME TO POST YOUR ARTICLES / VIEWS. NOW ALMOST ITS TWO MONTHS AFTER PHONE TAPPING. WE ARE EXPECTING A AP POLITICAL SCENE AND YOUR VIEWS ON TELANGANA.
ReplyDeleteYes I do agree. Posting my blog of the present scenario in Andhra Pradesh, with specific view of the Telangana has been at the back of my mind. Hope the delivery happens sooner.
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