Tuesday, 25 October 2011
Monday, 24 October 2011
A blot that repels but a means that attract!: A blunt mahatma in Kisan Baburao Hazare is born!
A blot that repels but a means that attract!: A blunt mahatma in Kisan Baburao Hazare is born!: We live in an era of expediency. The world is thronged by bigots who only need a rattling sound by rumor mongers to spring a blockade on go...
The Axis and Orbit of Corruption!
Presto! India, the largest democracy in the world,
has successfully emerged as the one only nation with two distinct oppositions
viz. one consisting of the communal party of India namely BJP and its
sympathizers and the other being a hood under Kisan Baburao Hazare, with the
residue of communal elements at his heels, which include, among others, the
RSS, VHP, Bajrang Dal, Shiv Sena, Ram Sena etc, all acting under the guise of a
crusade against corruption. Incidentally, these communal fanatics hold the
coveted claim as torchbearers of Hindu ethos and national culture, a
manifestation of which was witnessed in the 2002 Gujarat riots, 2008 Orissa
mayhem and Karnataka furor where, the state Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa is presently
lodged in jail. The latter, namely Kisan Baburao Hazare has been singularly
dying to dye the Indian sub-continent in bad light, with only a fraction of the
populace heeding his groans!
With Hazare’s hijack of all round development under the UPA government,
all in the name of corruption, the government is now left to grapple with dual
opposition breathing down the throat of an established popular government to
decide what is good for the nation and where to dig for the skeletons of a
corrupt nation and people.
Where exactly are we lacking in dynamism? Are not the
individuals collectively steering the wheel of a largest democracy, all in one
voice, with a sense of restraint keeping all extremes at bay, united with
resolve and contributing to the progress of the nation, boosting the image of a
progressive alliance in a free nation of diverse communities with a populace
estimated at 1.3 billion spread out in 28 states and 7 union territories, the
elected representatives of the very people who chose to adopt a Constitution on
26th January, 1950?
Are we Indians in favour of a stable
government functioning on an ideally disciplined platform catering to the needs
of diverse communities on a land spread out over an area of 3,287,240 sq. kms
or are we beckoning a state of barbarity and blackmail by a select few
villagers to envelope the nation with their chorus orchestrated by some mean
minded and disgruntled people of yesteryears of uneven category?
Incidentally, the real opposition has lost all sense of ethics.
Their lofty views merely hoist destructive and empty verbal blasts from time to
time, which hardly meet the parameters required to build a nation and
people. Far from being constructive, the opposition has lost their teeth
of conviction, while their intermittent blurts only fuel the fire of
ignominious disharmony among the right minded people. Do we need statistics to
read in to reality or do we make up our mind to assert our voice for the real
democracy which is presently ransacked, shattered and held to ransom by a few
mean minded individuals under the fickle minded guidance of Kisan Baburao
Hazare?
To start with – taking cue from Hazare, his communal following
have started flinging vague aspersions without any base or leash on individuals
of integrity and righteousness, merely to vent their ire at the real culprits
who would never come out of hiding till the government makes cautious inroads
in to their nefarious deeds. But this needs to be done cautiously without
alluding to information obtained through particular channels of government
machinery. The need of the hour is, therefore, to infuse ethics and
righteousness among a people and the nation, a majority of whom are uneducated,
uncultured or ill-informed of the real picture. By slinging mud at any and all
within the government amount to smearing innocent and righteous people and
government without any rhyme or reason. This directly harms the nation, the
government and individuals who work day in and day out for the welfare of the
people. Such unwanted references to people in high places get blown out of
proportion in the course of gossips and discussions.
To start with – taking cue from Hazare, his communal following
have started flinging vague aspersions without any base or leash on individuals
of integrity and righteousness, merely to vent their ire at the real culprits
who would never come out of hiding till the government makes cautious inroads
in to their nefarious deeds. But this needs to be done cautiously without
alluding to information obtained through particular channels of government
machinery. The need of the hour is, therefore, to infuse ethics and
righteousness among a people and the nation, a majority of whom are uneducated,
uncultured or ill-informed of the real picture. By slinging mud at any and all
within the government amount to smearing innocent and righteous people and
government without any rhyme or reason. This directly harms the nation, the
government and individuals who work day in and day out for the welfare of the
people. Such unwanted references to people in high places get blown out of
proportion in the course of gossips and discussions.
If any individual
including Hazare decides to incite people against the government and
individuals of dignity and status, if these very people project themselves as
the ones entrusted with power to flout norms and laws of the country in the
guise of agitation, if they decide to promote personal prestige and
individuality, in the process deflating the government machinery from
functioning, then the least we can suggest to them is to burn the constitution,
desist from electing any government and get back to barbarity of old. However,
they must realize that the nation and the Constitution is not a pack of cards
or papers for Hazare and his ilk to play with, nor is the government a property
to fiddle with. These men of mean wisdom need to realize that they do not stand
to represent the 1.3 billion advancing populace.
Moreover, we the
people of India need to realize that, whereas we slammed the perpetrators of
Parliament attack case during 2001, today Hazare and his ilk are denigrating
the very same Parliament, Constitution, institutions, government and people who
deserve to be respected as custodians of the nation, the rights of 1.3 billion
people and people elected through proper democratic channel.
However, the acts
and commissions being resorted by these crusaders amount to inciting mob,
defiling constitution, spreading hatred against government and individuals and
blackmailing the nation, the government and the majority of people for which
not only Hazare but the very people following in his footsteps ought to be
taken to task. To go about this, the law enforcement people need to first
tackle the followers, detain the lot of them without any mercy and then send
Hazare back to his village, for this is in the interest of the nation, people
and the non-agitating people who accept democracy and the constitution.
Was it not a hasty blackmail by Hazare and his ilk, to shoot to personal fame and reputation by forcing the government to succumb to blackmail and pressure tactics? My advice to the suffering 1.3 billion is to vote en masse for the UPA government at the next general elections to deal firmly against these blackmailers and stumbling blocks from articulating in anyway under the guise of democratic freedom and in the process slow down the nation’s progress and development. Rather than a fast unto death, I feel a faster end for such people would be better than a fast unto death!
Let me make it amply clear. 'Hindustan ' is roaring ahead to be counted amongst super powers of the world but starving in ethics, truth, honesty and righteousness. These basic virtues that go to make up an upright man worthy of trust in a society are either non existent or are scarce items held close to heart by a select few who do not have the courage to open up in public. Corruption is only one segment of the vicious circle that the country is enveloped in but prior to tackling corruption, there is need to make the nation a vibrant entity as a country fostering ethics, truth, honesty and righteousness.
We all shout for 'India
Is it not strange that corruption being the hallmark of democracy, we still expect truth and righteousness to emerge out of a people, all of whom (we ourselves) profess to be ruling a country that we claim to have been wrested from the hands of a foreign government? Why slam the present government when it comes to a boiling corruption where we the mob, forget we too have certain duties and responsibilities as citizens for whom the government is on their toes to take the country forward? Do we as responsible citizens forget that we too have a role to check corruption and it should not all be left to the shoulder of a government alone to work out strategies?
Has not this crusader faltered ominously when he attempted to leave an impact on his followers with his "Now our responsibilities have doubled". Didn't he have the guts to admit that he never was responsible (by deciding a fast unto death - or was it a ploy to commit suicide which law prohibits) except to blackmail the government to succumbing to individual pressure to the extent of undertaking a 'fast unto death'? I must make it amply clear and emphatic that the last few months saw hasty acts by people and Hazare, who all found it expedient to either blackmail the government or succumb to their own irresistible pleasure for power.
Kisan Hazare badly needed an applause which he got for free. The irony of it all is that he got the right topic to spill and a people with communal hatred to rally around him. But does this get the hell of a corruption out? Has this enabled the country to rid corruption or chalk out a method to prevent the menacing plague? Thanks to a reborn mahatma in the person of Kisan Hazare, the symbol of people who shout hoarse on corruption and become great overnight, thereby leaving a section of people including the opposition and the country time and again to steal time off their enactment of drama in Parliament to call for hartal and stall the progress of the nation and dart for votes. Some people need to slam the government merely for the heck of it. Corruption for these people is not only their responsibility but their hard fought earning power as well, besides a tool to slam the government.
It is cowardliness to go on fast unto death without first rallying people around and getting those areas of dens of corruption ransacked and go to jail if needed and then retract the steps for a fast (if needed only) but not blackmail straight away to get the applause of people. This is shame and more than shame to now find ‘corruption path’ for getting cheap fame. Why have these stalwarts kept quiet during younger days and took up cudgels when ripe old age has caught up? These people never found time and opportunity to alert the government or do some homework of their own? I pity the country is under such blackmailers and receiving undue publicity on account of a ring of communal fanatics playing second fiddle to the man from Ralegaon, Maharashtra.
It is not that corruption is a headache for people and communal elements, on the contrary the headache of it all is that they, like the Indian opposition, are not able to wrest power to “go and do likewise’. Every one of us lives for corruption because none of us want it out. It is corruption that is giving us a night’s sleep except that people call it ‘money and convenience’ – the more the better! See the rush at the metro stations – no one has time for another, they must get in at all cost! Does this constitute magnanimity or is it corruption and a corrupt mindset gnawing in to the Indian populace?
Rallying around one mute, dumb and dilly-dallying person – call him Kisan Baburao Hazare for now – will not do us the favour that we all hope for. Hazare failed to do his homework on his own for successfully bringing about a change in the system. Ours is a system that has been maimed by unscrupulous or barbarous people owing allegiance to a religion and culture (call it ‘Hindustan ’) in a country of over one billion. The mob here are hard to educate because virtues such as honesty or righteousness will never go down well with a people who even today are chanting their freedom struggle – all for a gain which they cannot come by unless they feed their baby called ‘corruption’.
In order to work out of this great puzzle of a menace, we need to do our bit which Anna Hazare failed to do. So, the next time someone wishes to do some good for the nation let him rally people around, visit those areas, places and people where corruption is embedded, pull up the officers, staff and create a commotion. Repeat this process at all places where according to them corruption is beyond redemption, pull up people, create commotion and if needed, be prepared to go to jail and then go on a fast unto death so that when journalists and government officials visit you – point out your grievances naming them without fear or favour. By doing this, you would create panic among the very people who are knee deep in corruption and slowly those very people will start forgetting the modus operandi that they have hitherto been used to and change for the better or lose their own jobs.
Then look back and see how your acts work for providing a sound, vibrant and efficacious solution in a country where rampant corruption has stalled even the law, law enforcers and the courts as well.
The nation has its wheels deflated by a bunch of hostile elements in the shape of communal organizations (like RSS, VHP, Bajrang Dal, Shiv Sena Ram Zene etc and the alike) and to realize any positive result, be it ridding of corruption, there is always these elements and the communal parties creating hurdles.
We the people of India
Unfortunately, Hindus are not able to reconcile with their own misadventures, so people have to link them and their culture with a colour – why not saffron? Ayodhya issue and its aftermath where their own vices have given voice to their own culture of extremism rather than a spirit of reconciliation is by itself an eye opener, on the extent to which religion could disintegrate thenation in to a chaotic state in a couple of decades hence.
A bunch of jokers in the form of communal fanatics have taken the centre stage on a land which has always been safeguarded by the single party that has kept itself aloof from communal politics. We need to reassure ourselves that the nation is on the right rails and we need to allow it to function at a pace and process that would take the entire country forward irrespective of a community, race, caste or state.
The duo – Hazare and Ramdev in unison have given the basic virtues of patience and scrupulousness a skip and adopted measures through coercive and blackmail tactics in their bid to axe a democratic appeal by the government to abide by a timely process. The present stage of corruption culminated through many decades of let up in our effort to bring about the process, which from time to time got deflected with the change of governments. Now that the UPA government is well in place, we may expect a possible and positive result, but for everything a vibrant majority within the government is the asking rate. Can we provide that?
A blot that repels but a means that attract!: A blunt mahatma in Kisan Baburao Hazare is born!
MY WIFE USHA KIRAN
JOINS ME IN SLAMMING THE SO CALLED CRUSADE
BY IGNORANT AND UNSCRUPULOUS ELEMENTS MAKING MOCKERY
OF A SYSTEM – READ DEMOCRACY –
TO MALIGN PEOPLE AND NATION
A colossal error by ancient people in their attempt to pull down curtain over a spate of heinous crimes, cruelties and atrocities meted out on poor innocent people groaning for ages under the yoke of suppression and slavery by feudal lords and monarchs gave birth to a mistaken system identified today as democracy. Although the mistake of giving a right to people for standing up for a right to life or right to exist or be it even for a freedom to breathe ease, has been dragged on for centuries to make it elastic to the extent of mauling up the very system which today appears like a noose fit for a band of criminals.
Incidentally, this very system – read democracy - alongwith the freedom and privileges graciously granted to an unworthy and unsuspecting mob stands converted as a right to assert and freedom to kill at will, even the very people entrusted with responsibility of protecting the people or to govern them in their best of capacities.
Incidentally, this very system – read democracy - alongwith the freedom and privileges graciously granted to an unworthy and unsuspecting mob stands converted as a right to assert and freedom to kill at will, even the very people entrusted with responsibility of protecting the people or to govern them in their best of capacities.
Today, the same democracy or a system put in place to safeguard the interest of people who were made to bear the brunt of powerful and highly placed people has become a blunt instrument with the rulers having to engage their own people for their own security or to become targets of mob ire or atrocities. For trifles one would find mobs rampaging the nation and property with demands that appear to them a right, whether such a privilege is within their rights or feasible or convenient to be enforced over people of other classes and categories.
A few decades later one might as well expect to see people wielding sticks, lathis, knives, swords, revolvers and guns, may be even machine guns to demand their rights as enshrined within the constitution. This could as well be a departure from the present day say by mobs and multitudes pouring out on to streets, roads and highways, demanding what according to their interpretation is their deemed democratic right bring the government and its dignity to lick the dust. There is a crying need to make people realize that, that was not what democracy is about. There is no shortcut to any solution and the least that the people can expect is to allow the solution to wind its way down to the lowest citizen of whatever class, category or profession he might be.
Going a step further I might even add that such actions belie all propriety due to the land and the Constitution. Allowing the public and the masses to unnecessarily and enmasse poke their nose in to functioning of the state machinery is an affront on the oath of secrecy and confidentiality to which the President, his entourage, the government and the dignified people are strictly elected to abide by.
Ethics - the need of the generation. Not vanity and stardom by individuals and opposition members. The communal and frustrated elements are flinging the very element of “Ethics, Manners & Etiquette” to the winds.
Democracy is being used. Ever since the united alliance (UPA) took charge of government at the centre, the communal opposition has been ruling the country or to put it better, governing the government with iron fist. The rigid, stubbon and unyielding stance by opposition on various issues is draining the country of crores by way of wasted days and years, all that to project their frustration in transparency. Opposition is ruling their transparent whims of frustration. Rather than democracy being adhered to, it is a transparent opposition ruling the roost.
Added to the tantrums of the opposition are the gimmicks of frustrated people with no element, strategy or attitude to stand with the nation, the government and the 1.3 bilion. With the exit of a sulking Hazare came Arvind Kejriwal, adding to the menace of opposition and communal fanatics.
Arvind Kejriwal added disruption to corruption. All the fodder for the blurts on corruption he made were achievements by treacherous elements who stole through the nation’s ethos and transparency to pull out valuable government records throwing to the wind the need to maintain the norm of truth and secrecy within the four walls of the nation. By doing this, he too shattered the integrity, dignity and respect of 1.3 bn. people to be pulled down to the level of street urchins.
FULL WRITE UP TO HIT THE NET SOON - PLEASE EXCUSE ALL
Hazare's Ethics do not match Truth!
MY WIFE USHA KIRAN
JOINS ME IN SLAMMING THE SO CALLED CRUSADE
BY IGNORANT AND UNSCRUPULOUS ELEMENTS MAKING MOCKERY
OF A SYSTEM – READ DEMOCRACY –
TO MALIGN PEOPLE AND NATION
The entire drama boiled down to a mono act by a 74 year old namesake doctor, Kisan Baburao Hazare, the well known namesake social worker and actor-turned-politician from Ralegaon Siddhi, Maharashtra . Age – 74, Education – 7th standard. Health – fit enough to fast unto death. Vision: death through fast. Morale – Sagging when denied a role but excited about making quick pace to stardom in the role of a ‘mahatma’. One achievement in life – attempted suicide but lived to write an essay on it. Main objective - attaining a halo round his head. Support base – a coterie of sycophants mainly from Maharashtra and adjoining areas and a few sulking icons of yester years followed by stray public from the communal fanatics, come to watch the comedy. Draw back – piqued at Ramdeo being visited at airport by some senior ministers in the government to which he murmured “there was no need for it”! If analyzed in depth, the mono act would lose its steam except a craze for fame.
Hazare is a good politician and played his card well that suited his dream image namely a ‘mahatma’. He hoodwinked the mob that got the basics wrong. Anna has been deafeningly ignorant to pleas by the government that the elected representatives are fully seized of the plague called corruption. Hazare as a matter of fact never wanted that intelligent and capable men in the government should piece out a solution acceptable to all sections of the society. Such a compromise would deprive him of the halo he is after. He therefore, made no bones of the integrity and prestige of the nation but rushed to Delhi
Anna’s passing away would be deeply felt by all those who never wanted a democratic solution or peaceful transition to a government sponsored bill against corruption. Now the communal party too has chipped in with their version of support for the suicide bidder on the plea that the Civil Activists’ bill would have better teeth than a government designed one. Incidentally, the communal party namely the BJP knows for certain that their only way to attain power at the center is by corroding the mass base enjoyed by the ruling party, viz. UPA. And the only way out to achieve this is by their communal politics.
My take: Is India
A silent civil war pioneered by a sulking blackmailer in his eagerness to get at a halo of ‘mahatma’ is already gnawing in to the national fabric of harmony and oneness. Behold the author of this devastating quake timed to perfection at his ripe old age of 72 which agitation is badly mauling up the nation’s integrity and oneness.
Hazare has, in the last few months been undermining the ethos of a vibrant democracy that had hitherto got its tricolor flutter atop the nation making its 1.3 billion mass base proud. After Hazare got his sulking mentality wield power over the ignorant public, in an attempt to blackmail a democratically elected government with intermittent bumps and moans, the government has had to leave the national priorities to pacify a psychologically unfit citizen and a rigid veteran of yesteryears groaning to attain his halo. The government, in the meanwhile, is at its wits’ end as to whether they should let him have his way twisting the constitution and the nation’s march to progress or allow him to finish off his rigidness with his fast unto death. One may piously hope he gets his due and the nation and government their right.
Kisan Baburao Hazare is a fully satisfied soul today. No qualms about having been born poor. He has lived a life to his will, his heart’s content. He has had pleasures of living a free man on the streets of Mumbai in the company of wayward elements. He has exhausted his sexual urges. Had his ways in every phase of life, be it in eating, drinking etc. At 72 the only coveted crown that might have been eluding him for years was that of a ‘mahatma’ which the billionth of an Indian majority would be loath in handing it over to him on a platter. To this end he finds it expedient to arm-twist a fully functioning democratically elected government.
On the face of it all, everything is normal and what the nation witnesses today is just the sulking master doing his round with one only objective in mind, what if it is not in the interest of the nation? As of today, everything is normal. The government is in place and the only disaster building up is that of Hazare’s team menacingly set to strike at the core of nation’s ethos and dedication. In the melee, the extremists too are doing their rounds and only future will tell as to what extent the recklessness by Hazare and his team could upset the equilibrium of the Indian sub-continent. Only a devastating strike by the extremist’s hell bent attempt to strike hard and deep will show the impact of hooking the government for the bait. Then it will be too late for the public presently making a beeline for Hazare’s crusade.
The public following Hazare carry the national flag without any show of party affiliation or communal outlook. However, behind the hood of this eruption on corruption are the dastardly elements which constitute the communal fanatics of India
We human beings tend to project wrong equations. Our over enthusiasm – like the manner in which Hazare at 74 is eager to portray a savior-like image to fool the public, makes us count our gains in terms of a hundred and one percent. But no teacher awards a ‘101’ marks out of 100 to any student. Such over enthusiasm leaves us with a disconnect from reality. We squander away opportunities, project wrong equations, miss the target and then start blame game for making scapegoat of people and government who never intended it the wrong way. A democratically elected government, capable of managing the affairs of the nation, is well entrenched on the saddle which alone has the ability to safeguard the tomorrow of the nation. Individuals like Hazare who squandered away their yesterdays and years ignoring pleas by his aunt to concentrate his mind on studies fell on deaf ears, can only bring the nation on its knees by their sulking temperaments.
Kisan Baburao Hazare is a tune without rhythm, a voice devoid of sound, a spirit without truth, a mind without conscience, a wind that blows nobody any good and a man who cannot officiate as a mediator between masses and the government. The only good trait in him is an un-written will to fade away from life with a Gandhian image, which wish of his too fails to materialize because he possesses no charisma or a national image. All that he has is a driving force called ‘ego’, which is hooded behind his vague articulation to rid corruption off the national periphery and which call of his is orchestrated by a few of his regional followers from Ralegaon. To go straight to the point, he is yet to feel the pulse of the nation and the nation his worth.
Kisan Baburao Hazare and his diehard zealots need to pull up their socks. As of now, his cherished dreams seemed to be materializing but the future alone will hold the harvest for the future – be it lean or bulk. It so appears that India
With the second fast that began on 16th August, 2011 stretching up to 28th August, 2011 only exposed the double standards by the communal elements and the veteran staving off any dilution of intent but the cat was out of the bag when RSS itself came out with the hooded lie. A shrewed government may have appeased the crowd by giving Hazare a better death elsewhere and under better circumstances but not without exposing the real Hazare who had his own irons in the fire. By doing so, the government machinery staved off any threat to its functioning as before and the fate of 1.3 billion had to be saved from the clutches of a bunch of fanatics.
Hazare would certainly have realized the futility of trying to weave a one-man dictatorship to gain vain fame and popularity. He also needs to come to terms with a 21st century that cannot be assessed in terms of prehistoric days when one man’s dictum would have been taken at face value. The world has fast progressed at a pace that cannot be kept track of and only reason and intelligence can work a way out of the present imbroglio of avarice and corruption.
The nation is in the midst of a catastrophe of extreme dimension and it ought not be the look out of a villager or kisan to undo the present meddle it is in. The plague of corruption that the nation is presently seized of cannot be done away with by merely creating fuss under the banner of an illiterate and uneducated person of regional fame. The nation needs people with intelligence, tact, diplomacy and determination to fight battle out of a dilemma it is in.
It is important to remember that, corruption unlike extremism calls for diplomacy and tact. By dodging the issue, Hazare has been crippling the very process to a standstill and allowing the sinister elements to make good the escape or destroy evidence, if any.
For stamping out this social menace, there is need to ensure close coordination between people and government, frame new laws that can motivate people to scrupulously follow them without straying off the path of truth and righteousness.
However, if Hazare deems it fit to frustrate all efforts put in by the government to get at the dragon of corruption, then time alone would tell which way Hazare might go and for how long and to what effect the government would manage his tantrums to its own advantage by getting the 1.3 billion aware of the tantrums resorted to by this namesake doctor called Kisan Baburao Hazare.
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