Recently one of my friend's office gossip mongering spilled out that one of his friends and colleague, who was heir apparent to one of the biggest conglomerate in India, had just put down his papers as he was about to tie the knot. As a middle class working man, I was of course appalled by the idea. Its almost blasphemy to quit your job when you are about to marry, right? That's when it struck us.
No not corruption. The fact that "the guy" did not need a job. In his position, he could have easily afforded a year long vacation and roamed around all the companies in India tendering his resignation letters. Here is what would have transpired at one such company:
At Infosys:
The Guy : " I officially tender my resignation. Here is the letter."
The receptionist : "But Sir, I do not think you work here."
The Guy : "Do I look like I give a fuck? I urge you to accept my resignation in the name of Global Warming and World Peace."
The receptionist : "Please refrain from using proganities, Sir. You DO NOT work here.
The Guy :"I think I will fire you now before I submit my resignation you imbecile ignorant employee. You are officially fired. Here is the letter"
The receptionist : "Security".
When the security comes to know who The Guy is, they leave him and advise reception to act more courteously.
That's not just the story of The Guy but many rich and high and mighty who can do what they want to do without being questioned and / or judged by the LAW. First of all we must understand why do the high and mighty do not fear the law. The answer to this question was to be found in our local Udipi restaurant. Yes. While having my UPMA, the person sitting besides said in a half tamilian half malayali accent (must have been from the border...ha ha), "Beta, if you ever see how that UPMA is made in their kitchen, you would never eat here."
That's when I started yelling "Eureka Eureka" and was running outside the hotel when the cashier and other waiters pinned me down yelling, "Bill kaun Bharega-Bill kaun Bharega". The IIPM-esque-think-tank-white glasses-wearing-chicken-eggs-counter-whiz-kid-genius-Archimedes in me was thus temporarily terminated. I paid the bill, but, did not forget to empty the entire bowl of roasted fennel seeds (Badi-Saunf) in my mouth. Revenge would be later on executed by sueing the godforsaken "Anna" from a kangaroo court based out of Panama. Ha Ha. And I would sue for US dollar one billion. Immaterial.
I concluded: because these buggers see and witness how the LAWS are made, they hate it forever and have utter disregard for it. Imagine if you knew and saw a Digvijay Singh drafting a bill on black money, you would automatically lose all faith in ethics of earning white money and start transacting only in cash. Like Mcdonalds. And thus the attitude trickles down like wise or so I think.
That reminds me of what kind of frustration stimulates a man (or a woman) that (s)he starts throwing shoes at politicians? Instant attention? I wonder why then Rakhi Sawant has not yet indulged in this form of mar-tial act against Mika yet. These days if you don't throw shoes or don't get detained at the airport by customs, you are remotely happening. Like global warming. But real fun would be to watch a detainee at airport throwing a shoe at a politician. A high heel at that. "Here Sweety," Thwackkkk. "Oh, Baby, you have done to my skull what C.I.D ACP Pradyuman does to a case - CRACK IT." Then they both can conviniently deny it ever happened, it was not my shoe, was not my skull etc etc. Yep, that would be fun to watch. Epic. Amar.
Yes, back to the topic, since corruption affects the aam admi, common man, we asked some of the uncommon men in seats of power on ways to tackle corruption and here is what they said: like Raj Kumar said - Ham mamooli nahi gairmamooli hai. Aur gairmamoolli log mamooli nahi gairmamooli gadiyon mein ghoomtey hain. Jaantey ho Gairmamooli kaun hote hain? Jo mamooli nahi hote. WTF.
1) Ex-Mantri now governor Mr. Shivraj Patil -
2) Mr. S.M.Krishna -
3) Baba Ramdev : -
4) Mr. Digvijay Singh : -
5) Rahul Baby, famously nickname - Amul Baby Rahul Gandhi:
6) Mr. Advaniji :
7) Dr. Man Mohan Singh P.M :
8) Sonia G -
9) Indian Citizen Ranting:
Recent corruption facade and all the fasts that followed From Anna to Chetan Bhagat...one night @ fast! To Baba Ramdev and the Government reaction and everything points to one simple thing. Government can not fight corruption. period. Why? Because, this is like asking the late saddam hussein to hold him self to trial for WMDs that were never found. Or like asking Sharad Pawar to scrutinize the lavasa project for irregularities. Or, like asking Rakhi Sawant to be a real judge. Its impossbile. Had immpossible been nothing, still it would have been beyond reach.
Regards corruption I had a theory that the corrupt system runs like a train. You can not stop it unless you derail it first. Overhaul all the wheels and machinery and run back on track again. one or two wheel can't bring about a revolution. Literally.
I forgot to add that people deserve the government that they get. Yatha Raja, Tatha Praja. People want corrupt in power and they keep voting corrupt to power. Sad. All I can say is -
