Even though majority middle class Indians have remained loyal to their 10-20% corrupt self and didn't take part in the movement against corruption recently, there was a tiny fraction who did take part considering their greater uncorrupt self. I wonder whether it's a hypocrisy or what. I'm not sure.
What these fake billers or tax evaders are protesting probably is the lack of human decency in direct interactions. Evading tax probably doesn't come across as villainy as that villainy in a way self directed and also requires a broader view of the society.
The interactions with a policeman or government officials in charge of licensing or a railway ticket collector is not something that one looks forward to. We would meet these people with power expecting them to demean their propriety. It disgusts us how people can be so nonchalant and ask money directly or indirectly. It humiliates us that people in the mainstream society indulge in the loot of our natural resources or misappropriate the money we give as tax.
It is as if without any personal animosity, people have decided to debase themselves and spoil the well defined personal interactions. We have to face the unpleasantness of these interactions which has nothing to do with our fault but just because some people want to make undeserved extra money.
If anything, corruption has killed justice and respect in man to man interactions. This has added bitterness in our sense of civilized human beings. It's not the money but likely, this loss of decency when it comes to personal interactions and loss of trust with people who misappropriate money, that demoralizes people.
I guess many people were not protesting against corruption but fighting to reinstate propriety and trust in our society.
What these fake billers or tax evaders are protesting probably is the lack of human decency in direct interactions. Evading tax probably doesn't come across as villainy as that villainy in a way self directed and also requires a broader view of the society.
The interactions with a policeman or government officials in charge of licensing or a railway ticket collector is not something that one looks forward to. We would meet these people with power expecting them to demean their propriety. It disgusts us how people can be so nonchalant and ask money directly or indirectly. It humiliates us that people in the mainstream society indulge in the loot of our natural resources or misappropriate the money we give as tax.
It is as if without any personal animosity, people have decided to debase themselves and spoil the well defined personal interactions. We have to face the unpleasantness of these interactions which has nothing to do with our fault but just because some people want to make undeserved extra money.
If anything, corruption has killed justice and respect in man to man interactions. This has added bitterness in our sense of civilized human beings. It's not the money but likely, this loss of decency when it comes to personal interactions and loss of trust with people who misappropriate money, that demoralizes people.
I guess many people were not protesting against corruption but fighting to reinstate propriety and trust in our society.
2 comments:
People are fed up of the looting and are helpless.
Small time money demands and small time extortion are going to stay , considering our culture that has it in its veins.
Let the bigger loot be arrested probably the need for bribe down the line will cease to exist.
Let the bigger loot be arrested probably the need for bribe down the line will cease to exist.
I guess democracy supposedly follows 'yatha praja thatha raja' dictum. However, the way voters look up to their leaders in India probably indicates, 'yatha raja tatha praja' still holds good. Maybe you are right.
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