Life is crazy, really. Especially if you're a teenager and an Indian citizen. If you've read the Da Vinci Code and the Lost Symbol, you'd know people are saying that this is an age of transformation and revolution. Hey, I know we're lucky bitches to be born when we are, because if we weren't, we wouldn't be us. Like if I was born a year earlier, I may have been a great dancer, but not a writer.
When our grandparents were children, the country was being roused similarly, but to fight against outside forces. The country was one, and not many people were criticizing our efforts - except the British themselves, of course. They called it the Indian Freedom Struggle. And today, the country supposed 'leaders' are mocking that revolution. I'm not talking about the politicians - they're crap and everyone knows that - but about the 'for the people' people.
Yeah, about the fiasco on Ramlila and the deal with Anna. A friend of mine talks about this on her blog. Democracy, they say, is the best form of government. Is it? A dictator might clean this up quicker than Satyagraha. Gandhiji gave us a tool, so let's use it. Let's all go on hunger strikes. But dude, Gandhi used it in a different atmosphere, a different setting. And the best part, he was doing the right thing.
Whether the Lokpal bill comes into play is not material. We all know that in India, people enter politics when they have nothing else to do. It's a quick money maker. The media, the government, the public - isn't everyone blowing this out of proportion? Calm down and talk about it! Did no one teach you that? There's only one thing that comes to mind reading the newspaper every day:
What's this nonsense?
Indeed - What is this non sense.
ReplyDeleteEveryone trying to make a pie out of this corruption saga.