Recently my friend narrated me a story by Leo Tolstoy about a greedy man who was very much behind grabbing land. He would trap gullible people and treacherously grab their land. One day a gentleman came to him and offered his land. Only thing the greedy man had to do was, to take a round, as big as he could, but return before sunset and the whole land would be his. He ran and ran very far, then he realised that he should return, before evening and started running back but he had come too far. He paced up. Faster, faster and faster. And finally collapsed and died. When he was buried he needed only two and half yards of land.
8,000 crores scam in commonwealth games, 170,000 crores 2G spectrum scam and before that fodder scam, Taj corridor scam, telecom scam, mining, bofors, money laundering, IPL, coffin, hawala and what not. 71 lac crore in swiss banks, lands, hotels, farm houses, shopping complexes bla-bla. This is the picture of India. After all how much money is enough? A. Rajas, Nira Radias, Kalmadis, Madhu Kodas, Lalus, Barkha Dutts, Baijals, Sukh Rams and so on, ugly faces of Indian politics, corporate world, sports, bureaucracy and media. Who is clean? None! Have the moral values totally said goodbye! Why there are not people who know their moral responsibility! One who has something to deliver is always lured. But where is the social responsibility? Now come down to roots. Police Constable, Bus conductor, office clerk, collector, officer, teacher, patwari etc. etc. every one corrupt. Where are we heading? It may be difficult for a common man to get an original passport but not for Abu Salem and Monica Bedi to take fake ones who get them delivered at their fake homes. In fact corruption is a social evil, as the liquor is. Total prohibition was felt impossible and an evil was licensed. Y not legalise corruption too. The license holder should be permitted to misappropriate public money create scams. Bigger the scam more the license money. Let the country earn from this license fee at least if not from the scams.
I often listen that corruption has been accepted in society I don’t know what society these people talk about. In fact corruption is the mother of all sorts of evils. They eat up NREGA money, they gobble kids mid day meals, eat up roads, drainages, buildings and bridges but not enough for their insatiable appetite. They take money and close their eyes to facilitate arm smugglers to make successful deliveries. They fill their belly and weaken criminal cases of hard core criminals. In pursuit of yellow and red coloured mahatma depicting papers they let over-loaded trucks to pass, ultimately resulting in to fatal accidents. Why to think only about crocodiles of society, why ignore the rats, mice, moths, worms, viruses and bacteria who cause small damages leading to destruction. Why allow all these parasites to eat up the country.
But the cure is far more difficult. How to put an end to corruption? Ultimately you, I and we all can bring the change. We have to start it. The mantle is to be held by common man. We shud introduce things in the curriculum of kids which encourage them to ask their parents if they use misappropriated money in their grooming. Advertise on the tv, particularly in kids programmes to encourage kids to ask tough questions from their parents if they take bribe, eat public money, adulterate eating stuff, steal taxes or amass black money. They should ask them if everyone needs two and half hands of land then how much is enough!
