Rape, Molestation and Eve-teasing

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Why is there an increasing trend in the violence against women? Have men lost their sane in the recent times?  Why there isn’t any popular phrase called “Violence against men?” Why isn’t there?

Let us rewind back 3500 years and put the same questions to the great religions which governed our polity for centuries? If Hinduism answers saying “we are egalitarians”, then ask it why there hasn't been a single goddess taking avatar like Vishnu? Also ask it, why no one questioned the man, when ' Maha Pathni' was left in the woods? Don’t leave it with that, also ask why Draupadi was a wager material, why didn’t Yudhishthira use his brothers for the same game of dice? If you think Christianity or Islam will answer, “Not us, it was them who gave less respect” then ask them why there hasn’t been any woman prophet in their ages of history? If you think the valiant Sikhism showed no partiality then ask them why there hasn’t been a single women guru in the whole of history.

By now Gods might be angry, so let us start putting some questions on our fellow humans. Why wasn’t a queen given the power to dispatch outside the palace? Of all the 3 Sangam ages and rest of the time in the Tamil Literature, I have just heard about Avvaiar, that's it for the whole of last 3500 years ? For all the medieval time poetry I have read, I haven't come across even a single women poet, but, why? (Now of course we have our every own Lady Gaga). Why is there so much low representation of women? Where did we lose women in the ‘out-of-home’ world? The questions just remain unanswered for years.

I define a philosopher as someone who can clearly distinguish between good and bad, justice and injustice but when one of the greatest philosopher of the first "democratic land" said "Women are defective by Nature", I was little surprised and startled as well. And this sentence of Aristotle helps us understand how the whole idea of "lesser of human" was sown in the hearts of mankind and how it has been nurtured in the minds of people at every stages of the history.

And this idea holding hands with the natures principle of dominance of "Stronger over weaker" took humans down the gloomy lane called rape, molestation and eve-teasing.

What?

What would you do if you are battered, what would you do if you are branded with hot iron on your cheeks?  What would you do if you are beat so much that your skull gets fractured? What would you do? Baby Afreen didn't know what to do, she just passed away. The only mistake the three year old did was to be born as a girl.

That was just one such case, on the whole the crimes against women are on the high in India and the National crime records reported in 1998 that the growth rate of crimes against women would be higher than the population growth by 2010 and I guess that was second report that gave an under-estimated projection other than the fiscal and monetary deficit report of Reserve Bank of India and Ministry of Finance. To simplify, In our national capital for every 26 minutes a woman is molested, for every 34 minutes a rape takes place and for every 43 minutes a woman is kidnapped. More than 8% of the total Indian Penal Code crimes are against women and the other stat says that most of the women crimes go unreported! What the hell, huh?

From Panjali times women have always been mistreated but that's not the questions. What is the level of victimization is the question. When a pub "helper" is raped by 6 men then there is something serious.  When Juvenile girls are raped every now and then then there is something serious happening in the society.

How?


Now, let us weave our imagination. Let us imagine a world where everyone is, Krishna, Jesus, Gandhi and Luther King. How is it? Boring right?  Now let us imagine a world full of universal villains like Hitler, Idi Amin and many more. How is it? I know by this time you would have prayed for the successful execution of “End of World 2012” pogrom.

Yes, world was created as a heterogeneous set and therefore force your heart to accept the fact. But, this shouldn’t be an excuse for the violence propagated, the criminals in this case are the sociopaths who are suffering from serious complex issues and law should do its duty with no excuse.

How about violence against "scantily clad women"? Is it justified? No, they should be punished as well. But still, the women carry some percent of responsibility as well. If you want to live in a complete fashion then you should be prepared to take up the consequence of it as well.  If you are eating meat before an unleashed dog, what happens? A few dogs eyeball it and a few will fight with you to swindle your food. You cannot blame the dog fully, if you are eating meat before a dog, you should have a stick to shoo it as well. Right? Yes. And the same holds here as well. Free-will is a fire and if you don’t know how to use it then you don’t deserve to live free.

And Then What?


Molestation happens. Rape happens. And Then What? Victim takes it to district magistrate.  Someone loses. They appeal again. Now it is in high court. Someone loses. They appeal it again. What now? Someone takes it Supreme Court. Then what? Iteration continues on and on. Let’s say, the probability works and the verdict is in favor of victim. But while all these happen, most of the criminal's would have kicked the bucket. Now, what should we do?

Molestation happens. Rape happens. And Then What? Media covers the story. We watch all the news relating to it.  We see the girl/women who get victimized. We see her cry. She tries to hide. But still, somehow we get to see her on screen.  Later, after a week, we see police arrest someone. We see a fully covered man walking. We see him being taken into the white police van then what?  Yes, that would be the last time you see him. But, the ill-used girl/women carrying the wound mentally and physically is deemed untouchable not by birth, but by someone's touch. Does she deserve it?

What should we do?

What should we do? Let me categorize into short-term and long-term goals.

Short term goals,
             • We should put a separate court in place to deal with this special type of crime. Fastening up of justice and execution of the same should be done.
            • All the National highways should be decorated with the "thug behind the bar" banner and saying, "Raped!” Yes, media should inflict fear in the minds of the potential criminals and their family.

Long term goals,
            • Stop taking about equality, feminism, reservation for women and all the others. Only if you behave like equal being, you will get equality.
            • Men, neither patronize nor subjugate.  Let them compete on a leveled field.

Short-term goals will heal the wounds and long term goals will be a vaccine of the society. As it took its own time to eradicate polio, it might take its but I’m sure this will be cent percent efficient like polio vaccine.

World will change someday, but that day we might not be here to see the vivid change, but, that doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t sow the seeds of Change. If not us let at least the future generation enjoy the toils of our social revolution.

Ray of hope is over there and we should move towards it.

Hopefully,
Alagiri Samy.S
                      


* Special thanks to Gopikrishnan.NS for his valuable inputs
* Intention of this post is not to hurt feelings of any individual. if I had, I’m sorry.

Divide And Rule - Evolution of Human-Race?

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In my apartments, there is this little kid called Chinnu, it is very usual thing of mine to give a small talk to him. Being just a another day I saw him, he was holding a big coffee mug in his hand; The principle of “perceive and ask” made me ask the most boring rhetoric question yet again, “Hey dude, whats up?” Fearing the swindle of his health drink, he instantaneously moved his cup away from me and said, “I’m drinking ‘Junior Horlicks 1-2-3’” and leaving no pause he drank a little from the cup, to assert his ownership over the drink.

It is an intuitive answer to which even a mute person would try to question using his sign language, me being no exception I asked “Junior? Is it just you who drinks it?” I could hear his inner voice, “What world are you in!” but then he suppressed all those inner feeling and said loudly “Mom drinks Women Horlicks and dad drinks the ‘Normal’ one”, bored by the conversation he just ran away without a bidding a bye. “Oh boy, you made the boy run again!”, I said to myself.

The point just remains the same, when I was a kid I was never given Junior Horlicks but, I did survive. Yes, a small thought changed the status quo of market, idea that hit the strategist mind should have been, “If I’m able to make x amount of money by selling 1 Horlicks at a house. Won’t it be great to sell y Horlicks in the same house for the same Rs.x or something more than that?” The very thought brought different types of Horlicks inside the same house. They just found the difference of age and sex in the same house and now Horlicks is valued at 1300 crore, in the Indian health drink industry alone.

When you just look at it as a business, the jargon is Market segmentation but think, little deeper, it is nothing more than the doctrine of British East India company, the divide and rule. You make the same house drink different products from the same company by just saying “You are different!”

Yes, it is divide and Rule!

It was a sober atmosphere lighted up by a serious thinking brain. The voice intrigued by my statement interrogated me, but with a condescending laugh, “Then tell me, why is it the best?” Taking a sip of the drink I tried to explain the same in simple words, “It makes a man live in an imaginary world where people are constantly made to confront each other though they never wish to. And at the end, all these confrontation neither yields monetary benefit nor happiness to a common man”.

I guess he went to the listening mode, my heart wanted to throw out all the unhappiness like a shmacked man and I started doing the same,” It was the time when Jesus Christ was just out of Mary’s womb. And that was the time when Madurai was commemorating its rich language’s proud son Kaniyan Poongundranar for his “Yaathum Oore, Yaavarum Kelir”.  Though people say, it has polymorphic, but let us try to keep this in our context. The literal meaning of it in English is, “'every country is my own and all the people are my kinsmen.'”. It isn’t a big statement to understand but on deeper analysis you will find the modus operandi of the world before 2000 years. Yes, they lived as a one global village and they had their identity as “Mankind”.


Let us check how we were in 1780’s, a period of political upheaval in France, when the social class took a war against the bourgeois class. It was the time, when people were first overdosed with social class feelings than being human. It took a toll of more than 2, 00,000 people and it became the starting point of many parties to become the powerbrokers of the  present day administrative circles and you and me are just their pawns for their personal benefits. People were forced to take a stand of either being a  “right” or a “left” than being a normal human being.

And from that day till this day, we have been fighting all along. 60,000 Armenian and Greek Christian in 1570’s in the name of religion were salvaged and more than 5,00,00 were killed during partition in the name of Sriram and Sri Muhammad Nabi. And even after this the thirst of blood mongering politicians and separatist never got quenched. After Independence, 10,000 of loved lives were paid as a tribute to the never satisfied demon called "religious hatred".

And many parties in the national level have their hopes pinned in this religious vendetta that they have sown in the minds of people for either holding back or coming back to the great Indian throne.
On the state level, you have the entire league of lingual nationalist who try to galvanize the votes using the languages. The incidents that happened after 1950’s when the central government decided to ‘decentralize’/ divide states for the administrative purposes will always remain as a standing example and this period saw the rise of Dravidian and other regional parties which took an oath of getting rights for a group or a sect but this bone for people successfully got them votes but today, where are we? Every summer you find the aftermath of it in many states, where governments make the upper and lower riparian issue, a lingual problem. You will fear having a bike registered at Tamilnadu in Bangalore and a person from Kerala would fear the safety of his jewellery shop in Tamilnadu. This doesn’t stop with Tamilnadu or Karnataka but it is in everywhere.


Telangana, Bodoland, division of Uttar Pradesh, partitioning of Maharashtra have started coming into limelight. After all the national level parties which segregated us in terms of religion, after all the states level parties which divided us based upon language and ethnicity, now you can find these petty “district “parties, the once caste groups asking for separate state for personal benefit. When is it going to stop?  When will they stop dividing us?

In this last two thousand years, we were “segmented” based on all possible things, from race to religion, from geography to profession and even from caste to creed.

In every day’s newspaper we find many shocking news, 10.7 Lakh crore coalgate loot, 1.76 Lakh crore 2G spectrum burglary, anti-nuclear energy protest and many others. But, it didn’t affect me; the point that our society has lost its oneness is the most worrying part of all. My heart trembles whenever I think about this.

All the above monetary loss can be regained by sheer hard work and good policy making but the cost we incurred for social degeneration can never be redeemed.

Can we get that 10,00,000 lost lives of the ethnic cleansing in Srilanka? Is it possible to bring back the 11 Million victims of holocaust? Can we bring back the 2000 innocent victims of Godhra riot?
No, we cannot. These things can never be regained or recreated. What happened to the affection of the mothers for their lost small kids? What happened to the dreams of lost dads?

They are dead!

I can agree if someone dies of an epidemic disease but never I can digest if someone loses his life because of the difference that was sown in their hearts!

Horlicks is monetizing by segmenting houses and politicians or the “so called revolutionaries” are monetizing by killing innocent lives.

After hearing all this, my conscious said, “I’m sure some day we will live as our ancestors lived before 2000 years. And that day it will be one for all, all for one!”

For one global village,
Alagiri Samy.S
www.rebelspath.blogspot.in

Further Globalization?

Before 3 years, the bus fare from Peelamedu to Gandhipuram, a four kilometer journey was INR 3 and now it has climbed to Rs. 5.  But why this 60% increase in fares?

Before 3 years, the rate of petrol was less than Rs.50 and now it is Rs.70. But Why this 40% increase?

Before 3 years, mess fee at our hostel was Rs.1100 to Rs.1300 and now it is Rs.2100 to Rs.2400.  Leave the exception of “Rich menu” but still why is there a 90% increase?

When asked why this increase they replied “entire price rise issue and inflation in every sector as a repelling effect of Globalization mainly of is Eurozone crisis”. Government, if they are very sure of what they are talking about then they wouldn’t still globalize the country by opening up markets to Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in retail sector?

They say it is because of Globalization but, why do they still want to Globalize.

Retail market what we are talking here might sound simple to you, but the efficacy and the power of Indian retail market will definitely amaze a normal human brain with emotions. According to KPMG report, retailing is the third biggest growing sector in the world; it stands next to Agriculture in the country with a 40% cut on the total Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of our country which is approximately 460 Billion dollars.

Following are the possible after effects of globalization.

Monopolization of Market

Opening up of retail market  is nothing but indirectly asking all the Multinational heavy weights to occupy our country in an economic basis. The regulation of prices will completely lie in the hands of these Multi National Companies’ (MNC) and even if there is a govt. regulatory body it could be puppeteer-ed. But this time to get freedom from this occupation will be much tougher as it is an occupation on economy.

If this policy is adopted then it is even tough to save our very own organized retailers (Subiksha, Reliance fresh and others) who account to 5% of retail market who are yet to settle. At this time globalizing would right away lead to market monopolization as there is no competition for the foreign players.

From Employment to Unemployment

Anand Sharma, the minister of commerce, industry and textiles, who earlier this week became a sudden villain for many said FDI will bring in 10 million new jobs, but the question is what about the livelihood of 40 million working population who are already in business? Figures may complicate things in simple terms, introducing 51% FDI is nothing but making Viruthunagar jobless which is one the trading town of Tamilnadu. Just think about rest of India!

The minister also said 10 million new jobs, how on earth is it going to happen? Wal-Mart, the multiband retailer which was started in 1962 has employed just 1.2 million though it has stations all over the globe but how is our minister so sure that 10 million in India are going to be employed of this.

We Indian, Buy Indian

Some argued, middleman will be removed from the whole supply-chain, but even if that is the case I’m pretty sure introducing FDI is never going to profit the great farmers of India. As in this case the profit earned by middlemen will also be eaten up by Retail giants.

Middlemen are Indians but these Walmart’s and Tesco’s guys are not. So it is better even if it stays like this. We Indian let us help another Indian instead of voluptuously fed foreign retailers’.

So, you want good infrastructure…

Government is very assertive that these inflows will create better infrastructure like cold storage facilities and others which is a part of logistics, if that is the case then why can’t government liberalize logistics alone or why shouldn’t government undertake logistics as a public sector and run it if it is so much worried.  Already, the Government of Tamilnadu has ordered in building cold storages and Godowns for the benefit of farmers and let “India Inc” also do the same.

From Savings Driven Economy to Consumer driven economy

My grandfather saved a lot and that was the time of socialist, my dad saved a little and that was the time of partial liberalization and now, they don’t want me to save anything by promoting consumer driven economy by liberalizing markets completely. Our country has always been safeguarded by individual’s bank savings and this proposed neo-economic strategy has every key ingredient which can shatter the economic stability of our nation in the long run.

What is your wish, to make us employees?

With 5000 bucks, people were able to become self made entrepreneur by starting a Kirana shop or in tamil petty kadai but, this new policy will vehemently deny the dreams of an enterpriser by creating an ambience which encourages people to become employees for these foreign behemoths’ instead of  promoting entrepreneurship.

Conclusion?

Brick by brick, every nation is built on certain fundamental values. India as a nation was raised on the savings and hard-work of people with the help of bountiful nature.  And if this new policy is put into force, it will annihilate every value upon which this very nation was built upon. “They” will try to live upon our saving, exploit our work force and plunder our wealth. So, this is new “Manmohanomics” shouldn’t be put into action for the welfare of a billion.

Unnaipol oruvan,
Alagiri Samy.S
www.rebelspath.blogspot.com

Because of a few men

Rain was drizzling and the breeze felt pleasant as it passed by my cheek. Hot tea complimented the resplended climate at Rajapalayam on 31st October, 2011.

Meanwhile, I noticed an uniformed band performed “Enga kula thangam, thevar kula singam” in a loud fashion and half a dozen guys were dancing to the tune on the sludgy Rajapalayam-Thenkasi highway.  They were followed by more than a hundred dhothi-ed men and neatly saree-d women, I was able to see a great sense of pride as they moved closer to the statue that was a little far away from me. A man with a white turban garlanded the idol for which later poojas were made with camphor which are usually used for poojas of Gods. Exuberance filled the atmosphere. One of them shouted with full enthusiasm, “Muthuramalinga Thevar” and rest of the crowd shouted in chorus “Vazhga”. And then I realized that it was the statue of U.Muthuramalinga Thevar.

Rewinding the tape two days back, when I was in the southern districts of Tamilnadu I was able to notice a few things. There were barricades in roads for 200meters for every 30km with check posts of police at the beginning and at the end of it. Vajra, the anti-riot vehicle of police were placed in many villages which has majority Dalit population. Policemen of all nine districts which included all sorts of policemen were mobilized totally for maintaining the law and order of the state in the southern districts. The apathy was that even the policemen incharge of Kutralam who are also life guards were also pulled out of their duty for the same cause. Not just with that, TASMAC, the socializing spot for many was also closed for three days on a streak to control the crowd and you know the reason ‘why’. Known is always a drop and unknown is always an ocean, I have just put forth a known drop of mine and a lot left.

I’m glad that the Jayanthi 2011, the day marking the birth of Sri. Muthuramlingam Thevar went peacefully unlike the year 1997 which saw a heavy bloodshed. It all started just as a day for paying tribute to the great man of my grandfather’s time but later he was used as an icon for a particular sect of people. Believe me, Sri.Ukkirapandi Muthuramalinga Thevar can be regarded as the modern day Karnan and I always wish to become like him someday. When the whole of Ramanathapuram was in drought and when people came to him, he gave them land and paddy which was the need of the hour without checking who they were and what they are, that was U.Muthuramalinga Thevar. But today the day for homage has become the day to show supremacy of one over another by a few.

Thevar Jayanthi is just one of the few things that is happening around us. A few others are Sri. Immanuvel Sekaran Memorial Day, when the listed caste people of Tamilnadu come together at the Paramakudi to pay homage. This year more than 5 were shot dead during the same day and Emergency was placed in those districts.  Would Mr. Immanuel Sekaran have asked for this? Would he have asked for five lives on that day? Definitely no, instead he would have asked you to work for the social upliftment as he did. But today the day to pay respect for the Major.Immanuvel Sekaran has become the day to show the rest of the people the strength by a few.

This is just not in Tamilnadu but found everywhere else. Sri Narayana Jayanthi in the ‘God’s own country’ is also one such event. As I had said earlier, this is just a drop. All these are available in various levels in the society and in all places.

Do you think the person who rallies on road for the Jayanthi knows what these great men fought for or for what they lived? Do they know what these legends considered as their pillars of life? No, they don’t. Sekaran and Thevar, the great disciples of Mahatma and Netaji respectively have been taken as icons and a certain mob is using their names to show their hatred towards others. If both of them were alive they wouldn’t have asked for this.

This disease is just not with the people but also with the government which is formed by the people. Former Chief Minister who is an atheist built the statue of Thevar at Madurai who is one of the most spiritualistic leader. You know the reason why, to please the 15 to 20 percent voting population of Tamilnadu. Present governments during one of its rule mentioned, “We are spending 20 million governments’ cash during Thevar jayanthi while the opposition spent only a petty 5 million during the day”, is it a matter of boasting? These days have been very well used by politicians to gain their vote base but are not appreciating the fact that they are dividing people.

Every day whenever I cross the Goripalyam junction I could see a minimum of 5 constables guarding the sculpture of Thevar and nearly equal number guarding Dr,BR.Ambedkar’s statue. Say the constables are paid 2L per annum then the total amount accounts to 20L per annum just for the city of Madurai for guarding the statues of two. Glide your thoughts about all the municipalities, town panchayats, and village panchayats having these statues and others as well. Just image the level upto which the government machineries and public fund is being used. If the same amount is spent on education it would have got the same Tamilnadu a minimum of 200 brilliant minds. Good government will preach their principles and will not built statues.

I’m not asking these functions to become like Gandhi Jayanthi (All due respect to Mahatma) which has just become a day for distributing chocolates in schools, closing colleges and telecasting new movies on Televisions with interviews of tinsel town hot chicks of Kollywood or become one like Nataji Subash Chandra Bose’s birthday which is not known by many. What I ask for is a peaceful function with no disturbance to public and “one for all and all for one” attitude during the day.

This vote bank politics of parties have reached such an extent where it has caused a great rift in the society where everyone is trying to show the supremacy over others. The way to save the society is not by pelt stones on statues or not by building statues or not by rallying people in support of leaders or not by spread hatred in the name of leaders but, rather by following their principles for which they lived for. Every group wants a face for branding, and these great men for the selfish needs. These leaders are not just for you or not for your group but for us and for our world. Give them to us. Whenever a statue is guarded we should feel ashamed and we should make it a point to preclude our future generation learn and practice these divisions, sects and hatred.

To communal harmony,
Alagiri Samy.S
www.rebelspath.blogspot.com

* Intention of this post is not to hurt feelings of any individual. if I had, I’m sorry.

What world needs?

“In matters of principle, stand like a rock. In matters of taste, swim with the current”, once said Thomas Jefferson, the architect of American democracy. It might look simple, but the subtle meaning it holds is sacred. Yes, taste or emotions can change, but principle or ideologies should be solid as a rock. Emotions live short, more like the JP Narayanan’s so are called ‘total revolution’ of early 70’s where as ideologies is nothing but the Marx’ beliefs which still runs in the bloods of men even in the remote villages of Cambodia for centuries in the form of Communism. Many define it differently but to me ideology starts with a reason from heart, holding a goal in mind and can produce changes in the society much faster than a raging inferno. A person with a vivid ideology becomes the leader of the society. All is well, but when did it all start? With a teacup in my hand, I gazed upon my cupboard with this question in mind. Yes, it was God who led the world with his first ideology, the Nature. A common space was created for the millions of creatures with a big banner saying, “If you have it then you can take it”. Dinosaurs were able to live but the cows weren’t able to and this is very similar to the current day capitalism. With the evolution of man from ape, man’s thought process replaced the ideologies and thoughts of God with his own ones to administer the earth better. Initially it was anarchy, where the rule of the state was ‘No rule’. With age, the society became civilized and priests led the society with the book of God as their constitution. And thus was the beginning of Monarchy. The theory evolved when Kings started ruling the states. He and his heirs became the owners of the state and monarchy turned out to be the longest living ideology in the civilized society. Ideologies keeps up the balance in the society and when it is lost, it results in a huge uprising in form of revolution. The haunting thoughts of kings not representing the people filled up the minds in the society and thus toppled the balance of the same. The shift from monarchy to democracy was gory in most of the states. Eastern countries in general chose communism; it was simple and promulgated the need for a classless society. But the life of communism was very limited like the winged termites. On the other hand western countries took Democracy and defined it as the government by the people, or the people and so on, but when you think about it little deeper, you would understand that it is a doctrine where a numerical majority of an organized group is making decisions which are bounded on the whole group. It forces you to have what your neighbor likes and gets you suppressed by the majority and dominant group. Winston Churchill, the World War winner and a democratically elected former English prime-minister went on to say, "Democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others that have been tried". World has continuously evolved from the day of its big bang. Every state here has moved on the four stages of political theories, Anarchy, Monarchy, Socialism and Democracy and between every stage there has been a messianic conquest which led to the transit and even today we may see new messiahs rising in our society. Anna Hazare who took up the popular ‘emotion’ of Anti-Corruption in his hand formulated an ideology Jan Lokpal through which he has brought ‘minor’ changes in the current democratic system. I’m sure there will be a day when the whole democracy will not be accepted by the common class and will move to the next level of political mythoi and this transition will bring more than half the population on the grounds for fighting. For all those money-minded and power-mongers, If you think you want to earn loads of money bigger and better than Ambani’s and Gates’s or if you want to enjoy the supreme power of Gandhis’ then I have an idea for you. Come out with an ideology to administer the world and sell it well. Selling here is not as simple as you think, Mahatmaji sold his ideology of Satyagraha using the strong feeling patriotism that was prevailing during the freedom struggle, and Revolutionaries of France sold their book of Guillotine through the wrath of general public, Marx’s sold his love for equality through trade unions which were incessantly suppressed by the minority bureaucrats. Ideologies came into existence whenever there are strong emotions and Mythos captures the feelings and makes it live for ages. For all those noble minds, America’s Capitalism is on the wrong side of road, Marx’s Communism is long gone, Gandhi’s ideologies for rural India were not even accepted by his kinsmen, Socialism was a day dream, nationalism died with Nehru and now there is no ideology which is holding this world together. I assure you, a draft that can bring all people together with no powerbrokers and ‘left outs’ can change this world for good and the clue for it is, “All is one and One is all”. This success will mark you in the books of histories for ages and millenniums To the most inspiring Marx, Alagiri Samy.S

To the Future...

I asked God, “What is corruption?” He replied back saying “Corruption is authority plus monopoly minus transparency”. Without giving much time I asked, what can it cause to the human kind, after a long pause, he replied, “It was the one that took my life before 2000 years for 30 pieces of Silver by Judas”. Baffled by the answer and with great depression in heart, I asked “what can be done to stop it?” He started thinking and he read few big books from his rag. While he was screening a book, he laughed victoriously and shouted, “I’ll send a messiah with the solution and let him be called Anna”.

Anna through his 13 days fast re-proved the world what Satyagraha can do and the meaning of “Satyameva Jayate”. But the first question that arises in every mind is, “What is corruption?” Taking money for or for not performing duty can be the abstract definition of corruption. On a higher abstract level, corruption happens in places wherever there is transaction of money between two individuals.

In India more than 45% of people have been a victim of corruption which includes everyone right from 2 days old baby to the grand old man of India. The most disgraceful part is according to Swiss Bank report is India has more black money in their bank than the rest of the world combined. Yes, that is our money that has been kept over there. On the contrary, these black money laundering people are paying interest to Swiss Bank for not revealing their names.

Now that corruption has gone up to a level that through 2G scam through which every individual in India lost 1.76 Lakh personally had made the world know that few Indians will even sell their motherland for cash. Bandwidth allocation to Uninor, Pakistan based company is a standing example. Corruption initially started out of pressure, but now it has become the habit of the people which is much more contagious and irresistible than the cigarettes. This badly acquired money is used for killing people social activists, funding terrorist, sucking out basic amenities from every Tom, Dick and Harry.

Government, do you think democracy is something that comes every five years? Even if you have a slightest thought in that line, please forget it. Our Jan Lokpal is going to help us exercise democracy continuously not like voting.

Here are few important points about Jan-Lokpal

* The people’s bill will bring more 45 Lakh employees under its ambit which includes everyone right from Prime Minister to the clerks in every office.
* Jan-Lokpal can also scrutinize all the NGOs and Corporate agencies.
* All the whistle blowers who continuously try to uproot corruption and bring about transparency will be protected and safeguarded through this bill. If it had been introduced earlier, Shehla Masood would have been saved, but never worry it will save a million in future.
* If you think Lokpal can over-power parliament, then it is wrong. Can election commission or Supreme Court master upper and lower house? No right, so is Lokpal.
* Investigation will be completed in a year’s time and trial in the next one year. So, we need not tent in court for 20 to 30 years for most of the case as we do now.
* Compensation will be given if your work is not completed in time. Yes, even the western countries will envy our bureaucracy.
* CBI and other vigilance agencies will be merged with Lokpal and so from after this cannot be used as a tool to jail the ‘Raja’s’ and ‘Rani’s’ of the country “when needed”.
* Citizen Charter will be placed before every office and it will explain the working of office.
* What will happen if officers in Lokpal become corrupt? Don’t worry, it will be transparent body and if complaints are lodged and proven against the officers in Lokpal they will be dismissed immediately from the Lokpal panel.

Many criticized this noble notion of removing corruption. Few like Arundhati Roy came on print media to bring down our beloved neta. Mrs. Roy questioned the integrity of Anna? But do you know what their credibility and views are? Mrs. Roy was the one who wanted Kashmir to be given to the separatist. Few people want to stay away from the crowd so that they are noticed, but believe me standing in front of a crowd and leading them is much tougher than commenting. Mrs. Roy, please take up some other topic, not this, because this is people’s issue! Come stand with us, you will know what it means. You are welcome.

It is tough to correct or rehabilitate all the corrupt people. A software engineer knows it well, addressing problem at all points makes it a brute-force which is inefficient, but when certain strategic points are found and processed, the solving becomes easier and so is this problem of corruption. Anna’s draft checks corruption of the current generation. But how can we remove it from every cells of individual in the society?

Charity begins at home and so is corruption. Every parent and teacher wants their children and wards to be successful and this in turn it has made people choose wrong paths and has now created a society that is symptomatic, decadent and where values of honesty are rotting out. But, instead of successful individual if they try to create a good citizen then it can create a society that is blessed with political jurisprudence, communal amity and high moral integrity. Yes, it can. Yes, our Jan Lokpal will take care of current generation frauds and cheats, but the future is in the hands of every Indian.

I’m assuring you, I’ll make my son a good citizen with high moral integrity and let us all take the same oath.

Against Corruption with many more,
Alagiri Samy.S
www.rebelspath.blogspot.com

Special thanks to Viswa, Srilekha Ravindrakumar, Aishwarya, Irfana, Vishnu Vardhana and Gopikrishnana for their valuable inputs.

Mother!

In the loudest of her voices she shouted, “Save me!”

She was being tortured to death in the middle of the street by group of incorrigible people, while the rest of them were watching it silently as she was beaten to death. She was whipped badly that the whole street was smeared with blood. She was trounced severely that even the pain felt the pain. But the crowd reluctantly watched her unmitigated suffering like a silent spectator. She was hollering in pain, but she dint surrender to those hooliganism. Many cried watching her suffer, but they never acted. Few laughed heartlessly. In utter pain she whispered to herself, “I never knew my sons would beat me… I never realized that my sons would watch me get excruciated… I never thought my sons would laugh when I’m being anguished… I never knew!”

All she wanted was a little resistance from her sons against the ruffians. She just wanted a voice against them in favor of her. She was longing for it. Watching the skies in pride and with pain she said, “I always thought I’m a good mother… I fed them with my blood... I cared for them… I loved them dearly…But, why are they doing this to me? I have a billion children but why isn’t there a one to save me? Where did I gone wrong? Did I not give them enough?” Unable to speak in unbearable pain she closed her eyes slowly.

In the silence a khaddar-dressed man with a Gandian hat rose up. With him stood the strong principled “Saffron Baba”. They stood up. They spoke for her. They enlightened the crowd and created a movement to save her from torture. And they are still standing up against the totalitarian resistance.

Bhagavad-Gita says,” When the pot of sin overflows, something happens to restore order”. The Gandian man may not be a god-sent avatar, but definitely a person who proves the theory that a stern cause with lot of endurance, patience and belief can bring down great castles to smithereens. The Gandian disciple is the present day Anna Hazare.

News had a Spokes-person from the ruling party calling him a corruptible person; Question to the spokesman is “Have you ever been a soldier for the nation or at least tried to be one? Do you know how it feels to serve a nation?” You will never know all these because you sit in an air conditioned room in a rolling chair with a secretary to serve you and help you remember things. But it wasn’t the case for him; he served country for fifteen years as a soldier in the rough borders.


You don’t worry Dada let them talk because all they know is to talk. On April they laughed at us, last month they criticized us and now they are preparing themselves for a war. We will fight them, not with weapons but with Ahimsa. We will stop them, not with iron hands but with truth. We will make them oblige, not with authority but will democracy. You don’t worry Dada.

Yes, we sit in office eating tricolored ice cream on Independence Day. Yes, we sit at home watching glamour queens of kollywood and bollywood interviewed on Independence Day. But it doesn’t mean we are done with patriotism. It doesn’t mean we have abandoned our motherland. It just means we never got an opportunity to showcase our love towards her. Small or large, thin or thick, easy or tough we’ll do our part tomorrow for you. Whether it is an agitation on VOC Park or wearing black dress in condolence to the actions of government, we’ll do it. We’ll do it for you, mother. We’ll stand by your most patriotic son, Anna.

We always wanted a person to save our day and now we have one. We won’t let him go. We’ll embrace him, support him and after victory we will laud him. This will be next revolution in the world.

People say this movement against corruption is more like the Great Revolt of 1857 because of its unorganized nature. I’m not worried. Let it be the great revolt of 2011, but I’m sure the independence from corruption will be on 2101. That day the tri-colored flag will fly higher with more pride. That day the mother India will be rescued from the torture. That day she will enjoy the love and affection of her sons.

Let our children bear the fruits of the seed that we have sown now. Support Anna, Support Anna’s cause!

My soul is to you mother India. Bharath Matha ki Jai. Happy Independence Day.

Jai Hind,
Alagiri Samy.S