Support Ramdev Baba's satyagraha against corruption

Sujith
from Kerala
13 years ago

I am neither the supporter of Govt nor Baba but just go through the demands of Baba Ramdev..Apart from two or three ..rest are illogical and ridiculous. A corruption India is in all of our dreams, but we, the common  people are directly or indirectly promoting corruption. We have enough rules and regulations to stop corruption but we don't want to implement it. Do you think that "capital punishment" can stop corruption?

How many of among as are asking bills after purchasing an item from our local shops? Let's start the strike against corruption from the root level. In a broader sense we all are equally responsible for this situation.

We must live in the reality not in an Utopian world.

 

Sujith
from Kerala
13 years ago

Sorry a type "A corruption free India"

Setu
from New Delhi
13 years ago

+1 i agree

rite now we must not see people and divide ourselves but we should see the cause and unite to fite against it

tys
from Sharjah
13 years ago

let me get this straight : i was under this misguided impression that hinduism, the religion i was most influenced by due to birth, was founded on the 4 pillars of ahimisa, satya, dharma and prema...u take any one of this away, it ceases to be a hindu faith...i use the term hindu very loosely since the very term is used to describe a population that is not part of an organized religion..neither it shud be....no matter how much ur lifestyle comes under percieved attack, u shud cease to become what u fite against.. whatever that is. its the oldest system of faith and it has survived due to its adaptability, its flexibility, its ability to enfold any ideas into itself, any attempts to interfer with it has given us only offshoots of itself in a disguised forms...it will survive without any help from the ramdevs and thackerys... but for heavens sake, dont get lead by anyone ...u insult urself everytime u do that...dont follow becoz u seek only validation...listen carefully when something makes u upset, mayur...ask why it makes u upset... u on one hand compare this blight of a man to gandhi...gandhi didnt feel the need to raise an army...he never considered himself threatened...only a coward thinks that his faith is ever under attack..it cannot be...if it is , then it was never there in the first place... nothing is bigger than respect for life...not even our ****ing gods

TF Carthick
from Bangalore
13 years ago

Sad, we always have intellectuals giving some obscure arguments while our enemies are destroying us. I can understand how things might have been during the revolt of 1857. The failure of 1857 gave British 100 years of rule. Wonder if this is going to be another failed Sepoy mutiny. I feel this is going to be the last stand against corruption. Once this movement ends, the government is going to be swift in its crackdown. Already they are bringing laws to curb freedom of expression on online forums and the wage boards to put a leash on the press. One year down the line, we are not going to be having freedom to have these kind of discussions also. Let us enjoy while we still can bringing all irrelavent issues like relegion, characters of personalities participating in the struggling and all other diversions the government keeps throwing at us and let us be divided and be ruled. Thats how we are. Our politicians have learnt well from our British masters. Let us do a repeat of 1857.

tys
from Sharjah
13 years ago

this is not a sepoy mutiny...this is political and it has agendas...agendas that may not be visible to people like us..if this movement was initiated by a common man, taken up by common men, and became a deluge , this wud make a difference...it still can..

we shud fite corruption at every level...to begin we shud refuse to participate in it...we shud refuse to give bribes, to find the easy way to get our things done....we , as individuals shud make the first stand...

this movement wont die...we shud not let it...but we shud see beyond the ramdevs and the parties with their own axes to grind...so a blind belief in one person is not a wise move...

but iam thankful to them for shining the light upon a big problem that exist in India...

iam also confident that we will overcome this....think abt it....look how far we have come in such a short while...

never loose sight of that...nothing is going to happen that we dont want it to happen.

TF Carthick
from Bangalore
13 years ago

@tys - Do you seriously beleive our freedom fighters dd not have agendas? At lease Nehru and Jinnah definitely had political agendas. All this refuse to give bribe and all in the current ste up is just a joke. My father is trying to get some family tree from a government office without a bribe and its been months and he is still only trying. These stupid democratic institutions do not work by themselves. Struggles like Anna Hazare's only will yield results. Of course I am not for blind faith in Ramdev or RSS. Just that us common men must not loose focus by talking about negative aspects of Ramdev and RSS etc. We can do that later. But now whoever supports the Lok Pal bill should keep focus on maintaining pressure on the government. Even Ramdev is bringing too many other issues in here and trying to shift focus. That I do not like. Black money is a seperate issue to be taken up separately and issue of higher education in Indian languages is a politically non controversial issue to be take up on some other forum.

tys
from Sharjah
13 years ago

u make sense...so where do we go from here?...now that the forerunners of the bill has shown their side of the coin?

but i still believe that to fite corruption, we should analyse ourselves to see how we are contributing towards it and get that out our system before we go into that fite...forget the past...its dead...iam saying , if u and me says that we are not going to put up with it, neither are we going to contribute towards it, even in its smallest way...then we are r in a position to fite...otherwise we are being hypocrates...

u do understand what iam saying, sir ( i refuse to call u fool)...? 

start with ourselves...thats the easiest part to change...then bring the fite outside...

what we are actually fighting against is not corruption but integrety..i dont want to sound like i do know...but thts how i feel ...

so the question remain...

i hope ur father gets what he wants, which is rightfully his, without having to grease anyones palm...