When I view the world of the people around me while travelling in a bus or a train or an auto, I am intrigued by the thoughts in their heads, the life they have faced to come to this point and the things that they have to do ahead. Since I am so comfortable under a shelter, and have no book to be interested in, this becomes my leisurely act. The objects in my view become points of curiosity. Looking out of the window I have countless things in my view, countless stories to be told. If I have a seat in the bus, everybody I see standing becomes a point of my pity. Pity is inherent in our characters. Look, there goes a scooterist driving past in rain, oh I am comfortable, even if I am standing. Because we have a shelter on our head we are comfortable,we have a seat to rest our back and ease our burden we are comfortable, comfort can be found in the littlest of things. It is only in discomfort that we realize we need to change things around us.
The plea of everyone calling out to the youngsters or the GenNxt to take the struggle against corruption in our hands just as the youngsters of independence era did to win the country’s freedom, is falling on deaf ears and blind eyes. Since us youngsters have never been at the receiving end of corruption the whole struggle against corruption unfolds before us like a spectacle, pretty much like the viewing of passerby’s from our window. Even if we are involved, it is because of the mere fantasy of relieving the era of independence that has been glorified before us by our cinema. Our generation is a very aimless one. There is nothing much to achieve, India is on path of becoming a developed nation, thanks to the previous generation, and we are enjoying the success of it. There is no struggle left.It may be out of need to be a part of a phenomenon, to have a cause just for the heck of it, that some joined forces with team Anna.
The whole cycle of corruption is revolving in the middle generation, be it in parliament of that of our sorry politicians and the huge sums of unaccounted money in their foreign bank accounts or of government bureaucrats looking to fatten their pockets.
The reasons for this mid-life corruption could be many but the two that come to my mind are parents and technology.
Our generation has been spoon fed by our parents till the very age that we become adults and maybe even after. It is thus a parenting thing that everybody does at some point in their life. Our parents have provided us with the best of comforts and participated equally in our struggle to get to colleges etc. When it comes to being bribed or cheated they blindfold us and get us the lovely candy we want, while we on our behalf don't care how it reached us, as long as it did reach us.Our grandparents did so for our parents, and parents for us and we will for our kids. But when that time comes for us it will be like a late first menstruation, where one knows the pains of it from others and have only just come to realize it for oneself.
Secondly, with internet and other technologies the human interaction has decreased, making transactions more transparent and clear, with no scope left for "the approach" factor. We having been brought up in this day and age of technology and have played with the technical toys since childhood. As compared to us our parents still prefer the paperwork over these technologies because they either don't have time or are too afraid of technology. They are therefore, the ones at the receiving end of corruption.
It is evil I admit, but to counter it we need to be put through the drain, for us to feel the need to clean.
