Change… Change… Change…! Everyone talks about change without
changing herself or himself. What change we want? Where do we want change? How
to change?
Politicians in a democracy want change in order to capture
the Government and to help their own family members and friends and friends’
family. In a country like India, which is over populated by all standards, the
people belong to different States speaking different languages following
different religions, belonging to different castes, having different levels of
education, earning different family income and holding different kinds of jobs
do want change. Such vast variability in our society is maintained by men and
women by casting their valuable votes once in five years to elect a Government.
They can bring about changes in the Government if they are not satisfied with
the performance of the previous Government.
Of late such changes have been thought about in Arab
countries which have been ruled by single families without giving a chance for
the people of the country to participate in the governance. Protests were shown
by people at different times without much success. But now the people after
seeing the people in their neighbouring countries and their economic
development, standard of life and employment opportunities started agitating in
Egypt, Libya, Syria and other countries with great courage and determination.
They are losing lives of many civilians who want democracy in their country.
In fact, the world had woken up to think and fight for the
right. Human beings are in general, power-mongers. They even butcher the fellow
humans to meet their goals. Those power-mongers live in high citadels with all
comforts not understanding the conditions of their country-men who do all the
work for the progress and prosperity of the country.
Another most important kind of change one has to bring about
is to change oneself to suit the country’s development. If each one of us
realizes the importance of change for the better, then a country can change for
good. For instance, people talk about corruption which ruins the administration
of a country without thinking about their own involvement in the process. The
youth of our country came forward in countless numbers to support Anna Hazare, the champion of
anti-corruption. One likes to think, how many of these youths bribed schools
and colleges to get admission, how many of them bribed teachers for getting
better grades, how many of them bribed the ministers to
get a job and how many of them bribed the authorities to get a transfer to
their native place? Even to get a constable job the candidate has to bribe, to
get a Vice-Chancellor post one has to bribe and also to get a candidate seat to
contest an election or a minister post one has to shell out crores of rupees as
bribe to a political party. These are known to everyone including the media in
our society. The bribe giver and the taker are also known; but how to eliminate
such practices? Do you think anti-corruption
law or Jan Lokpal Bill will solve it? I don’t think so and many others also
think similar way. Each one of us has to change in not giving or not getting
bribe at all levels. If we fail to do it then we stand as we stand today. Nothing
will change…Don’t you think so?
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