We are Responsible for whatever is happening

Somebody sent me a sms today – Suresh Kalmadi can be rewritten as “Sir u made laks”

But this man(with his team) made billions. And we tax payers are sitting and watching it.

Lot of people have been flooding Facebook and other social networking places with their comments.

They use phrases like “Shameless Indians” for SK and others. Why don’t we think that with them we are equally shameless. We sit, watch, crib and think that things will improve. Even if a million Indians (0.1% of Indian population) unite, go and stand in front of the parliament peacefully and in a determined way, I am sure they can move the entire government machinery.

These netas are shameless because they know nobody will come and stop them from what they are doing.

How many of us understand the political system, processes properly and watch current events carefully ?

How many of us know things like –
1.What is Loksabha, its purpose, its functioning, aims, objectives, powers and duties ? how is it formed ?
2.Similarly for Rajyasabha
3.Why do we need vidhansabha and vidhan parishad and even the local bodies when we already have Loksabha and rajyasabha .
4.What are the typical different functions that these bodies perform ?
5.Why and how do we have a parliamentary form of democracy and not presidential ?
6.How many of us understand current issues and carry proper views on them ? For eg – Naxalism, Kashmir terrorism, North-east issues, Language issues (North and South), Ayodhya, Hindu – Muslim issues
7.Have we ever noticed that in our country whenever a terrorist activity happens, a muslim is caught but you won’t find a muslim in a financial fraud – Stock market scams, Satyam scam, etc. Why don’t we discuss such issues ?
8.Do we ever think thrice before buying a cheap chinese product that its killing our own country ?
9.Why do we buy a Toyota, Honda or a GM. A Nestle, HLL or P&G. Buy Indian. Ask for a pure Indian product. Don’t feel proud in buying a imported product.
10.Why is the road in front of your house not as good as it is in front of the chief minister’s house ?
11.Why should you face a power cut when power minister enjoys uninterrupted supply ?
12.Why is Vijay Mallya allowed to sit and enjoy IPL match after having defaulted on public sector bank loans (its people’s money) worth Rs 5000 cr. If we forget to pay a telephone bill, people are at our doors asking for money.
13.How can Raju of Satyam walk out when he himself agreed on a scam of more than 7000 cr
14.Why should Sharad Pawar(or any other neta) allowed to continue at any post when he is not physically fit.
15.What is RTI application ? How do you apply ? Do we know ?
16.What is a PIL? Who can file it? What can we achieve through a PIL?
17.What is Sensex and its significance? How is it calculated? What’s the use?
18.What is Inflation? How is it calculated and what’s the use of calculating it?
19.We hear GDP stories every day. What is GDP?
20.And there are n numbers of things. I can keep writing the whole night.

The idea is to initiate a thought process within myself and whoever reads it.

It’s easy to crib about corruption. Actually, cribbing is a norm. People say corruption is the root cause of all the problems.

I feel corruption is just an outcome of our own attitude (not individual attitude but attitude as a society). We tolerate, sit quietly. We allow corruption.

The solution is within us. We need to act in our own small ways.

Sirf Utho Mat – Jago – Seen that Tata tea Ad ??