Stepping towards bright future…
“Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, whenever found, against the wrong.”– Theodore Roosevelt
“You are saying that India is an emerging superpower then why do five Indians die every minute from hunger?” demanded my 12 yr old sister. I had just ended my pitch to her about why India is emerging as the world’s next growth engine; I don’t have any answer and picked up the short answer ’politics’. But she couldn't understand it because I never told her anything about the flaws in the Indian political system as I always wanted her to be a proud Indian.
When I started writing something on this article, I felt pity on myself as to why my country is making me to write against my own people , it is nothing but accusing my own mother.2500 billion US dollars of Indian money were in Swiss banks even if it is typing error it is a lot of money. Two third of Indians are below the poverty line. 70%of Indians have no access to sanitation. These simple yet complicated causes compelled me to write this article. This article is entirely dedicated to the sole purpose of how we, the YOUNGSTERS COULD MAKE A DIFFERENCE. Our youth doesn't form 100% population of the country but they do form 100% future of the country.
During one of the journeys to my hometown I got a chance to have a candid discussion with a reserved cop who sat beside me in the bus. He works in SP office Krishna. Our discussion was so open that we discussed almost every flaw in the political and judicial system of the country. He said “even if you murder someone, just come to me with some bucks I can easily get you out of the case” .Through that discussion with him I came to the conclusion that Indian judiciary system has no meaning at all. You can actually manipulate any one with a mere amount of money in this country. Justice is truth in action, people want justice not charity, and poverty does not create as much crime as crime creates poverty. Lack of justice makes people lose respect to the law. If a protector becomes a predator what does a common man do?
We must distinguish between partners of crime and victims of crime. I applied for a passport; I need it urgently because I need to clear my GRE in two and half months. The reason for my delay is mere laziness so when a passport officer came for the verification I don’t dare not to offer any bribe and I had given it to his demand because I don’t want to take risk and deprived the most deserving person. What had I become? a partner of crime and this person, a victim of crime. When it is a life and death situation, someone is bleeding on the road you took him to the hospital. The worker says ‘I don’t work’, if you bribe somebody they take him right away , your principle says you not to bribe but the question is will you lay him bleed to death or bribe?. If I bribed him, legally I just broke the law but ethically I saved a life. Am I part of the crime or victim of the crime? In a society which reached its peaks in corruption, one has to do illegal things in order to do legal things! Hence it clearly makes out a point that 99% of Indians are not part of the crime they are honest they have become victims of crime.
Many a time’s people say I should stay away from politics as it is a dirty game. There is nothing like dirty game but only dirty players. The water we drink, the medicine we take everything is the result of politics .Being motivated by the situation of our country I thought of doing my bit of service to the country by joining a political party which promised not to distribute any liquor or money for the sake of votes. I seriously took part in the rigorous campaign for four complete days and covered the area which is allotted to me. In the day of election due to lack of manpower they requested me to act as polling booth agent (he is the representative of the party and takes care whether voting is carried out fairly or not).As I have no work that day and this could be the best way of doing my bit of service for my country so, I agreed it. But to my extreme wonder I actually saw the scene that I never supposed to. Some strangers came and tried to convince me for accepting the bribe so that they can easily facilitate their common game of rigging. The polling officer who is like an island of support in the sea of opposition observed all this advised me to give a complaint so that we can go for re-election, this gave me sufficient courage to stop the rigging and it worked well. The question here is the one who offered me the bribe is least bothered about the impression, that this incident creates in my mind, on my people. This country has never been destroyed by outside enemies but always by the traitors inside. These traitors have no limits. , Britishers did not do this in 200 years what our rascals have done in 60 years.
We must eradicate this nation of corrupt breed of traitors who are ready to sell this country for personal gains. These political leaders divide the nation on the basis of religion, caste, creed for every 5 years of their tenure, to preserve their vote banks thus hampering the development of our country. The medication for my motherland who is suffering from this disease may be: right to election must be accompanied with right to reject; witness protection plan must be tried in a day to day basis to clean up the system, finally be patriotic and go green. Every one beside, will follow you.
Today’s problems are yesterdays short sighted solutions, if we catch hold of the political cancer at the very beginning we can easily root it out in the mere future. The main objective of the government is good governance to good people with good laws, it takes care of everything. If we are not willing to struggle for our own dignity we don’t deserve freedom. Our past meant to be ‘do or die’ it entirely changed the map of the world. A granny’s armchair might provoke a thought but can only be portrayed by the youthful feet. If we still continue to rely upon the annual rings of the ancient political tree of India, it would surely be an elevation of the spot light on our impotency . If you want to wait for 200 years, good luck; I am not willing to do that, either the country changes or I change and I am not ready to change anymore….The country has to change.
