Despot Regimes to Go
THE writing is on the wall.
Tunisia has shown the way.
Egypt is burning, so is Yemen. Others are in queue - South America, other countries of west Asia, eastern europe, countries of CIS, Pakistan and even China. Will India too respond?
IT All started with the suicide by a cart puller. The common man in Tunisia, reeling under corruption and unemployment started burning. Internet fanned the news. Now cosmetic changes in the system by the rulers are not acceptable. It is not Muslim uprising. It is the uprising by common man, the aam aadmi.
SITUATION in India is similar, worse in many ways. Even after 64 years of Independence we are fighting over the figures of poor in the country. A vast majority of educated youth is not job-worthy. The government made right to education a fundamental right because it can get away with statistics. IF right to health were made into fundamental right? That is not to be because that will expose hollowness of government's intentions. The poor in India can be fooled by the schemes that keep them poor. Empty stomachs can not create rebel, the government has all the right to think so. But now?
TODAY only, there were demonstrations at 50 places across the country against corruption including in the national as well as many state capitals, led by the leaders of civil society.
THE issues related to corruption, if are being looked into, are because our Supreme Court is independent and to much extent free from corruption. Otherwise, all the laws pertaining to corruption are toothless as there is no independent constitutional body (like CAG, CVC, CEC), to look into these issues. Even the Lok Pal bill prepared by the government is more like to protect our PM and MPs rather than prosecute them in matters of corruption.
THE suffering masses may take out a leaf from uprisings elsewhere, sooner than later. Therefore, it is high time that the people in power must mend their ways as early as they can; lest it be too late.
Tunisia has shown the way.
Egypt is burning, so is Yemen. Others are in queue - South America, other countries of west Asia, eastern europe, countries of CIS, Pakistan and even China. Will India too respond?
IT All started with the suicide by a cart puller. The common man in Tunisia, reeling under corruption and unemployment started burning. Internet fanned the news. Now cosmetic changes in the system by the rulers are not acceptable. It is not Muslim uprising. It is the uprising by common man, the aam aadmi.
SITUATION in India is similar, worse in many ways. Even after 64 years of Independence we are fighting over the figures of poor in the country. A vast majority of educated youth is not job-worthy. The government made right to education a fundamental right because it can get away with statistics. IF right to health were made into fundamental right? That is not to be because that will expose hollowness of government's intentions. The poor in India can be fooled by the schemes that keep them poor. Empty stomachs can not create rebel, the government has all the right to think so. But now?
TODAY only, there were demonstrations at 50 places across the country against corruption including in the national as well as many state capitals, led by the leaders of civil society.
THE issues related to corruption, if are being looked into, are because our Supreme Court is independent and to much extent free from corruption. Otherwise, all the laws pertaining to corruption are toothless as there is no independent constitutional body (like CAG, CVC, CEC), to look into these issues. Even the Lok Pal bill prepared by the government is more like to protect our PM and MPs rather than prosecute them in matters of corruption.
THE suffering masses may take out a leaf from uprisings elsewhere, sooner than later. Therefore, it is high time that the people in power must mend their ways as early as they can; lest it be too late.
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