Corruption Is Not An Act But A State Of Mind

A retired teacher is having his dinner. He has given many bright students to this country and had always tried to imbibe integrity and morality in his students. When he sits down at the dinning table to take his supper on the day of his retirement, he is relishing the food and enjoying the dinner without having a tension of how he will get his pension issued, with a surety that his old age will not be troublesome because he will get his pension in time and he will get all the facilities given to the senior citizens by the government of India. He is not expecting much, given his services rendered to this country, which is just the pension and his fundamental rights- This is the India I dream about.

Corruption is wide spread in our country. From the top ministers to a small babu, everyone is corrupt. But I do not mean that the government is not doing anything. There is nothing absolute. We cannot say that every politician, every bureaucrat is corrupt from head to toe. We have developed from just an independent country to one of the fastest growing democracy. We have improved in health sector, corporate sector, financial sector etc. There has been a tremendous increase in GDP from $58.832 Billion in 1965 to $1.377 trillion in 2009. But what I mean is that the progress can be accelerated. There always a chance of improvement and in the “corruption” case, I lot of improvement.

Corruption can be controlled but cannot be stopped completely. And even the controlling process is not a fortnight job. It will take time because

corruption is not a act but a state of mind. We have to change the way people think, their thought process. It is indeed a tiresome job and a long process which starts right from childhood. I might sound little philosophical but it is true. When a child sees his father bribing the ticket conductor for getting seats in train, he immediately thinks it to be right to bribe to get a seat. When he grows up he boasts among his friends that in spite of not having a valid ticket he had travelled in the train. He calls it as his smartness instead of abstaining from such act because from the very childhood he has not been taught that it was something wrong. If he is penalised once, he will not do the same thing for some period of time but will repeat it. One thing which we have forgotten is that he still does not think in his head that it is a wrong thing to do. The moment we instil the seed of honesty in his head that it is a form of corruption and he has to abstain from it, no matter what, he will continue to do it. The moment he takes self pride in being totally honest and being not corrupt, in any sense, is the moment we have made India less corrupt by one person.

Now if we talk of immediate efforts required in this regard, as the process of changing thought processes is a continuous process starting right from the childhood, we have to adopt a “top to bottom” approach. If the top level politicians and officials stop doing corruption and be strict then the lower staff would definitely be less corrupt. For eg- if a party chief does not take bribe from a chief minister, a chief minister from a home minister and a home minister from SPs (for posting to a more profitable district), then the SPs will not be in pressure of collecting money from different SHOs and consequently different SHOs will be less corrupt as they will not have a pressure of collecting money for passing it to the senior officials. Ultimately the scenario would be that the people of respective Thanas, districts and states would not have to bribe different officials and we would have a less corrupt India. We have to have a strict lokpal and some strict bodies in the government which can keep vigil and punish corrupt officials. A body where even a common man can register his or her complaint easily and he would be given proper response and his complaint would be looked into.

But that seed of integrity and honesty if not imbibed into our conscious, there would be corruption even when there is no pressure of passing the money to senior officials.

So we need to inculcate honesty and integrity in ourselves, into our children and int our fellow beings to have a complete corrupt free India as the lokpal or any other body would be temporary cure not a permanent one. So When a college boy refuses to pay bribe to get a seat and gets down from the train, when a BPL family gets the food at rate prescribed by government, when every poor fellow gets to register his fir without paying bribe and when that teachers sleeps a sound sleep without worrying about his pension, I will have an India of my dream.
Pramit Mishra

darkness..........

What is Darkness.........?????
It is not only the absence of light but presence of something which obstructs the way of light.
Why cant the ray of light emerging from a source go on endlessly to infinity, why its energy goes on decreasing as it moves forward. Something there in the surrounding absorbs rather removes its energy continuously.
If that ray has infinite energy so that any amount of energy taken out from it couldn't make it less, the ray will reach to infinity. And I suppose Buddha, Jesus had that infinite energy which penetrated even the darkest dark and their rays never lost any energy.
We, normal humans cannot have that much of energy but can have at least that amount of energy so that our vibes, our rays, reach the farthest and we make some little contribution in removing little darkness from this Earth.

What is Paradise

i wonder what is paradise
it is the warmth of your grasp
or the love in your eyes
give me your love
give me your soul
i'll take you to that world
the world full of fantacies
the world of only you and me
i'll take you in my arms
you'll feel the warmth
you'll feel calm

feel my breathe
feel my beats
dance with me in the rain
wet your body and wet ur lips
embrace me to let me kiss
washed away will be ur pain
just dance with me in the rain

the dance the embrace
for me is paradise
the touch the kiss for me is paradise
never go away from me
even a thought of that kills me
i promise i'll take u to paradise
i promise i'll make u wander in the limitless sky
cos only wen boundaries are broken
the chains of this world are boken
paradise is reached
and the wall of the worries is breached
now i know that the warmth of ur grasp
and the loves in ur eyes
is only what we call is paradise........

Life worth Living

I saw "Seven Pounds" few days ago (actor: Will Smith. actress: Rosario Dawson ) and this was the dialogue which affected me the most and everybody should ponder on this one: " A person is a good human being, when he is good even when he doesn't know that people are watching him." 

It is a movie which everybody should should see. It tells us the essence of life, 'what is worth living'.

I had known this but i had forgotten. After seeing that movie i realized it again. Bringing a smile on a face is  what is worth living, achieving what you want is what is worth living, making your parents proud is what is worth living, being contented is what is worth living. When we will be lying on our death bed, we should not have a feeling that we had wasted our life. We have got one life and i suppose it should not be wasted. We have got just one chance to leave a mark in this world so that when we die people will remember us for centuries. "When we were born everybody laughed but when we die the world cries and feels the loss........that is when we can say that we lived our life and our birth was not a waste.

                                                Don't waste your birth, don't waste your death. Use everything to the optimum. Your countrymen should feel proud to have you as their fellow citizen. Leave a mark and use your potential to the fullest and be successful. 

an inspirational quote :

"There'll be two dates on your tombstone And all your friends will read 'em But all that's gonna matter is that little dash between 'em"
- Kevin Welch