When idols crack, ideologies vapourize and when corruption becomes a way of life…a county reaches its rock bottom..! Whatever happened to the good old words like integrity and transparency??
Every day, skeletons tumble out in dozens from closets of the elite, the powerful ..regardless of whether you are in power, whether you are opposition or whether you are simply a ‘private’ citizen (who ever coined the term?)! And when the quantification terms come to light every man and woman tries to imagine the amount of money we are talking about…you and me may never see even fraction of such an amount over three generations! And we are talking about this money siphoned out without a trace..the ultimate vanishing act!! Now that the numbers and deals are slowly and steadily trickling into daylight, what happens next?? Just another charade like the million charades that came, stayed and finally went….as methodical and systematic as that?? Or do we see the most elusive word – action?? Can we convict one crook in this country?
And just when we thought the media was finally doing what it does best – rip apart the ‘unreachable’ and expose the ‘unthinkable’ the final straw also unravels itself..the men who print and relay these dealings are also deep in the murky mud of corruption..and that just slammed on the Indian citizen’s face the final hammering…it was a country’s way of saying..we have hit our all time low and there is probably no escape route…when a citizen doubts the words in his daily newspaper or TV show, that for me is the abysmal bottom ! We can claw ourselves out of slow growth…we may pray for better employment..we can even be optimistic about a no poverty India…..but in one master stroke the word ‘hope’ and ‘future’ has been burnt into a hallucination!
