Anna and aam Admi

Anna is resolute. He would settle for nothing less than realisation of Lokpal Bill. The country is upbeat and thousands pour their support to his pledge. They agree to him wholeheartedly that the system is corrupt and needs a change. They sing in chorus to pointing fingers at the moldy system. In this din, the quintessence gets deluded; it is them who make this system.


The system is corrupt – when i am the giver. On my way to work,i over speed, do erratic lane hopping and jump a red light. i get caught and choose to bribe rater than getting booked. i come home and remark the system is corrupt. i conveniently forget that for ever act i attribute to corrupt system , i have overlooked the countless deeds i have done with an unconscious mind, for now, i will plead ignorance that whati did amounts to corruption.

i wonder what Lokpal is going to achieve when the constituent fabric is fetid.


We are a breed of self-centered people who would defy any social logic for own gratification. To add beauty to it we have realized the corrective power of democracy. The Gujjar and Jat reservation issues are current case in point, wherein the nation is held to ransom for achieving political mileage. Ask any one who participated in these agitations and he will take no time to point at the failing system. He will certainly glorify his act of anarchy. Anna draws support from these quarters too.


Of course the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena needs a special mention. They are the ones who refined the art of fast track political emergence. With sheer nuisance as investment they became a political entity which can not be ignored. The people who vote for them do support Anna wholeheartedly.

Of course, how can I forget Behan Mayawati an explicit case of rags to riches. The jewelry she adorns to display her machismo would throw Godess Padmawati (Consort of Lord Balaji) into a vortex of inferiority complex. Did the people who support her ask her that from where has a gareeb ki beti amassed so much of wealth without a justified enterprise. I am sure they would have fasted for Anna.


Dr Manmohan Singh also supports Anna. (I am sure if reincarnation exists, he was Dhritrashtra in his previous birth.) He blames constrains of collation politics for his incapacity to act. I agree with him to certain extent, but if he is so much a man of unimpeachable ideals, what prevents him from resigning from the system he heads. Of course he is a lesser mortal like all of us. System for him too is corrupt when he is at receiving end.


Majority of our esteemed legislators and parliamentarians have a criminal background. We desist it, hate it, abhor politics and stay away from it in all forms-from participating in elections to casting our votes. The intellectuals of the country who should be formulating the policies of the country have made politics a taboo for themselves. You only have a choice to select the lesser evil. Of course the intellectuals support Anna with bottom of their heart.