Sorry Anna! I’m ok with corruption...

I was watching the news of Anna Hajare’s movement and thinking that do we really need a movement to remove corruption and can corruption be removed completely from our lives.

Let’s start our discussion with what is corruption?

In my opinion whenever somebody is doing a favor to you in return of something, which without favor you didn’t suppose to get then there is corruption. If we read this line carefully then we will realize that corruption is everywhere around us. We are so neck deepens with corruption that it’s a part of our daily life and we didn’t even know that. Let’s take example of corruption in our daily life but in very small scale and in very common way. We are travelling in train and we don’t have ticket, at this moment the ticket checker should charge us appropriately but what we will do is to bribe him. I accept that both parties are guilty in this case but right now we are looking at our role. Now suppose we are travelling and we have a waiting ticket, now we will ask for ticket checker to arrange few births in return of some money. Ideally a police man should not allow any non railway vendor in train but they allowed them just for some money. Smoking is prohibited in train but if you are smoking in AC then nobody will say anything and in case of Sleeper bogy just keep a 100 Rs note ready and you are free to smoke as long as you wants. In AC bogies, attendant will even arrange for wine and other alcohol beverages on special requests, violating all rules.

Ideally municipality should not allow illegal constructions and shops but they are taking money for it. In case magistrate checking is roads for un-licensed shop then somebody from municipality will inform shop keepers well in advance. I can bet that you can’t make or take any caste certificate or birth/death/marriage certificate without expensing “kharcha paani” or “bachcho ke liye mithayi”.  Doesn’t matter how much electricity you are consuming but give a 100 rs note to electric person and he will slow down your electric meter. Ideally anybody below 18 should not suppose to drive as they didn’t get a valid driving license but check the roads around you. That’s not enough if you get caught on any traffic signal after violating some traffic rule just keep a 100 rs note ready in your pocket (50 Rs note if you are a girl).

I accept that we all are human being and we all have weaknesses and irrespective of our class and society, we all are little greedy so we may consider that all of them are not so heinous crimes but can’t we see that we are also contributing to corruption in our own way.

Folks let’s talk about moral police:

You have a big name in society and your son caught doing something wrong, ideally you should respect Law and allow them to do their work but what we will do is to use your reputation to free your son and make a mockery of judicial system. If you are going to bank and there is a big line of 10-12 people and you noticed that a friend of your is at 3^rd position in line then what will be your method you will go directly to him to enter in the line at 4^th position. Isn’t it corruption? It’s not a big thing but morally it’s still wrong.

Everyday we talk harshly on dowry but when it comes to your turn, you will take it as tradition. Isn’t it corruption?

We are going to temple just before exam and taking “mannat”. Isn’t “mannat” is a form of corruption? I mean you want a favorable result and you are promising to god that you will give him something in return. Isn’t it a bribe to god?

A man who didn’t want to fight the competition will give money to get a job and once he gets the job he will try to earn that money back.

Problem with us is that we talk big things about corruption but don’t want to correct small things. We talk about big scams, but we don’t want to talk about what we are doing wrong. We all want that all big names involved in scams should get punishment but we don’t want to correct ourselves. I am not saying that first we need to make our self morally right and then only we can talk about all big scams, No that’s not right and that’s a long process.  Our judiciary system will take care of it. Corruption is not a single man’s problem. Its problem of every one and no one can solve this problem alone. We need to be clean from within to think about corruption free India. If we left with corruption or im-moral duties even in small quantity in our self or in our daily life then no lokpal can do anything…..and we have to say sorry Anna! I’m ok with corruption.