Ek haath le, ek haath de!
India is a country which is on a rise, it’s a country which heading into a new dimension.A country which was used to recieving is today lending hand to the poorer nations.Our graduates and post graduates are recruited by foriegn MNC’s at great salaries, there is requirement for the Indian minds everywhere.We Indians have left our mark in many fields today, like cinema,business,sports but above all we have the honor of being the first civilization on this planet.
But no nation, no matter how advanced,powerful or cultured, is without its fairshare of problems.For me my country, India is like a tree,the seeds of which were sowed by great men and women who have served the nation at some point or the other, even laid lives for it with a smile, so that we, the generation of today (including our parents and us) can take shelter under this tree when it’s hot or when it rains or eat its fuits when hungry.
So shouldn’t we, stop the hand which tries to cut this tree?
Who is trying to cut it?…Think and answer!
Today if you ask a 100 Indians in a survey, “WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WHICH IS SPREAD IN THE WHOLE COUNTRY LIKE A WILDFIRE?” I am sure ALL 100 of them would say “CORRUPTION”
It is a problem which is eating the country from inside.If not all then, most of the departments, from grass root level to the top level are corrupt, every sector is touched by it, be it banking,medicine, anything.Its the axe which is trying to cut our tree from the roots.
I feel sorry for the people who have to give unnecessary bribes and the ones who’s lives are ruined because of it. Imagine a small shopkeeper, paying bribe to save his shop from getting into trouble or a man trying to build his house on a piece of land.Even admission of patients in hospitals requires a heavy pay up sometimes.From the biggest to the smallest problem, there seems only one soulution for everything – Bribes.
You must think to yourselves sometime or the other – “Dont the people asking for money have a concience?”… Well that is a stupid question to ask since a person with concience never enjoys himself while the other one suffers. No man in his right mind would enjoy other man’s misery.
Imagine a person ABC (who is a small shopkeeper) who wants to save his shop from getting demolished which was orginally set by his father on piece of land owned by him.He goes to see XYZ who is a lower level employee at the office concerning such problems.ABC asks for help and guidance and XYZ tells him “EK HAATH LE, EK HAATH DE (You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours)” ABC with heavy heart arranges for the amount demanded and gives it instantly with a hope that tomorrow will be a better day and that XYZ will solve his problem. He goes home and his kids rush to him asking him to take them to dinner at a small local restaurant since their is nothing to eat at home besides dal because they ran out of ration today.The father convinces them to have dal and chapattis today and promises to take them out some other time since he is tired.
Yes tired…tired of life…tired of circumstances!
Meanwhile XYZ, takes his family out for dinner that night, not feeling disgusted for one moment, that while his kids are sitting in an air-conditioned restaurant eating their kababs, the kids of the person who is actually paying for the dinner, might be having plain dal and a chapattis?
A few sould stirring questions – When these “bribe takers” (who generally have small pay packages) go home after making someone’s day miserable,taking their wives and kids out to enjoy, with the other person’s hard earned money, don’t they feel sorry, or when they buy their wives new clothes or jewellery, don’t their wives ask them, where do they get the money from? The kids, of such lowly people, who enjoy the latest fashions and have the latest gadgets, don’t they ever wonder, that, how our father who doesn’t earn much can afford to give us such pleasures?If they are unaware of their father’s actions then its understandable that they are not at fault, but having full knowledge of the fact that their father takes bribes and then they endorse it, is simply pathetic.
Enjoying life to fullest and endorsing the latest trends is not a bad thing but to enjoy at the cost of another person’s happiness is SICK.
There is an increasing need for media to show its power and shift gears of power, its the people’s land and people’s money and the power should lie with the people for the future generations, saving whatever is left because when the roots for this country are not safe, can we really expect this tree to grow more greener bearing fruits of a brighter future?
