Corruption is the hot topic these days. Anna Hazare and his fasting habits have already started to have implications in the Indian middle class. The Indian middle class, with known appetite for gossips in cricket, bollywood and the political gimmicks are talking about how India as a country has been pegged with corruption. Even, luncheons on diwali afternoons were not spared.
The family I stay with in Delhi (Should write about them once!), was invited for a diwali lunch in their friends house. After the usual Tamil style hello's and how are yous, we settled down, as usual men in the hall and women in the Kitchen and the kids running here and there(How i wish i was one of them!). Nobody knew what to talk to the other, and in a typical Tamil manner conversation started off with education. Slowly we moved on to business, politics and finally settled down on the issue of corruption.
Almost every body there except two of us were central government employees, with one working in the CAG(remember CAG of the famous 2G?). We touched on every topic possible, from the why's and how's of corruption, to who is corrupt, to the India Against Corruption,and to the allegations. Everybody had an opinion on everything possible, and finally we shook hands and came out.
I enjoyed the small break, but i had to agree I would have liked a different topic on a diwali day. Don't mistake me, I am a hard core nationalist! I love my country and love every debate on our country. But,I really really feel that we are over playing the corruption card. Yes, the country is corrupt, the politicians stink of corruption, and we don't associate our bureaucrats with honesty. But i have a feeling, that at some point we will have to start looking inward, and for that to happen we must stop talking about them.
After a happy day of politician bashing, sadly i went back to the very same life!
The family I stay with in Delhi (Should write about them once!), was invited for a diwali lunch in their friends house. After the usual Tamil style hello's and how are yous, we settled down, as usual men in the hall and women in the Kitchen and the kids running here and there(How i wish i was one of them!). Nobody knew what to talk to the other, and in a typical Tamil manner conversation started off with education. Slowly we moved on to business, politics and finally settled down on the issue of corruption.
Almost every body there except two of us were central government employees, with one working in the CAG(remember CAG of the famous 2G?). We touched on every topic possible, from the why's and how's of corruption, to who is corrupt, to the India Against Corruption,and to the allegations. Everybody had an opinion on everything possible, and finally we shook hands and came out.
I enjoyed the small break, but i had to agree I would have liked a different topic on a diwali day. Don't mistake me, I am a hard core nationalist! I love my country and love every debate on our country. But,I really really feel that we are over playing the corruption card. Yes, the country is corrupt, the politicians stink of corruption, and we don't associate our bureaucrats with honesty. But i have a feeling, that at some point we will have to start looking inward, and for that to happen we must stop talking about them.
After a happy day of politician bashing, sadly i went back to the very same life!
3 comments:
Talking politics is one of our hobbies, and nothing will deter us from touching upon the subject in any gathering lasting more than an hour :)
Ha ha ha. True sheena ka. Now the specific issue of corruption has added to our usual issue of politics
ur last like is the hard core practicality and thats our speciality!!
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