Our take on Corruption

The Anti corruption laws in our country at the moment is something like the Indian Football Team. Instituted for a good purpose but in reality, a little more than non-existent. The tale about the UPA guy who had to bribe a guy who was blackmailing him for extorting from the drug-dealer, who cooked the books of his business, so that his trafficking activities were hidden from the tax-evading policeman who smuggled arms for the UPA guy. Yeah tale's true.

From the days of British rule in India, corruption and bribery have been amazingly common, often used a tool to strike discord amongst Indians themselves. No matter that Dalhousie's Divide and Rule sounds like a computer game or a steak diner or something. Once independence was achieved after Rajnikanth travelled back in time,donned the garb of an old man, replaced rascala with satyagraha, and called himself Mahatma, India became a democracy of thought but a monarchy of acute corruption.

India can also be regarded as a giant film set where Rajnikanth shoots his movies, but that apart.

There are about a dozen IIMs, 8 gazillion engineering colleges and Whateveraiyya Law Colleges in the place, it took a little known guy from a little known place, Anna Hazare, to stand up and say "Dear Manmohan Singhji, Hope you are well. Please stop all this corruption and all ji. Thankyou." That supposedly was the letter sent to the PM.

All the selfless people in this nation who have nothing but India's interests in their heart, (before Anna Hazare came, it was probably in their intestine or something), joined hands to rid the nation of this grievous
cancer that has been troubling India for a long time. That was how Himesh Reshmaiyya died. Now to corruption. The new version of Jan Lokpal is said to be the answer to all our corruption problems. Which might be like saying that Krosine is the answer to the survivors of the Nazi holocaust.

But it is definitely a start, no questioning that.

Anna Hazare, when questioned about Jan Lokpal remarked that the new version was a boon to a long suffering nation

Mallika Sherawat, when questioned about Jan Lokpal remarked that she loved the shirt Mr. Jan wore last tuesday.

Yep that's India.