NO to Corruption.... OKAY.... then WHAT????

The Hindu
   
Corruption, a threat to national security too: CJI
   
http://www.hindu.com/2009/09/13/stories/2009091359960800.htm
   
Whatever the causes of corruption, the “alarming fact is that there is considerable tolerance of the same in our society,” Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan said on Saturday.

It was a “reprehensible practice” that demands for bribes were made even for the delivery of essential services, like issuance of ration cards and approval of electricity and water connections.

He was addressing a seminar on “Fighting Crimes Related to Corruption,” organised here jointly by the Central Bureau of Investigation and the National Institute of Criminology and Forensic Science.

“Families who are already disadvantaged on account of poverty and illiteracy are further exploited and denied amenities.

Independent studies have shown that the incidence of corruption is the highest when it comes to interactions with the local police, allocation of housing and in the maintenance of land records and registrations and in courts also as it involves so many people and is not a one-man system,” the CJI said.

In the long-run, the costs of corruption were not confined to the money that changed hands under the table. The real costs were difficult to measure as they involved loss of opportunities for business, investment and diversion of manpower. In some cases, corruption posed a threat to the national security and law and order.

“We are all aware of how smuggled arms and explosives were used for the bomb blasts in Mumbai in 1993, as well as the financing of terrorist operations through hawala dealings. All in all, the pervasive culture of graft provokes pessimism about the quality of governance,” he said.

Minister of State for Personnel and Public Grievances Prithviraj Chavan said the government already approved the setting up of 71 special executive courts for CBI cases. He appealed to the judiciary to find innovative solutions to reduce the huge pendency, and work towards making the criminal justice system efficient, fast and fair.
   
   
   
   
There is a sense of disappointment in the country over prevailing corruption in almost every sphere of life. "AAM AADMI" (and "AAM AURAT") has actually started believing in the new defination of 'honesty'....
   
   
"An honest person is the one who will do your job after taking a bribe while a dishonest person is the one who will not work even after taking a bribe."
   
   
or we can say that the basis of the current scenerio is that people in INDIA no longer believe in the traditional defination of honesty given by Bhagavad Gita....
   
   
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karmaṇy evādhikāras te
mā phaleṣu kadācana
   
mā karma-phala-hetur bhūr
mā te sańgo 'stv akarmaṇi.....
    
                                                   ---- BHAGAVAD GITA 2.47
   
Translation ----
   
You have a right to perform your prescribed duty, but you are not entitled to the fruits of action. Never consider yourself the cause of the results of your activities, and never be attached to not doing your duty.
   
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However, even in this situation of distrust, every citizen of our DEMOCRATIC COUNTRY is praying that somehow the current scenerio should CHANGE....
   
But what CHANGE are we praying for????
   
   
Are we praying that the people in our country should follow the defination given by Krishna to Arjun in the battlefield of Kurukshetra????
   
If someone actually starts following this defination, then that person will somewhere in his/her life have to fight a DHARAMYUDH.... A battle where he/she will be up against his/her own people....
   
   
Shakti (Dilip Kumar, Amitabh Bachchan) and Rang De Basanti (Aamir Khan, Soha Ali Khan, Siddharth Narayan, Kunal Kapoor, Atul Kulkarni, Sharman Joshi) show a possible scenerio which a person following such a principle will encounter.
   
Shakti is a story of an honest cop who kills his own criminal son in the line of duty and in Rang De Basanti, one of the protagonist kills his corrupt father to create a CHANGE in the society.
   
   
So, when we pray for a CHANGE, are we also praying that this CHANGE should be brought in by someone else, because we ourselves are very smart and know the cost of following such a principle. In short, we are not ready to follow the same in our own lives....
   
or
   
Are we ready to follow the teachings of BHAGWAD GITA ourselves also????
    
   
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"Be the Change You Want to See In Your World"
    
                                                                MAHATMA GANDHI
   
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