We have recently seen a number of scams and scandals that
came into picture. Loads of money was involved in those scams. I was having a
healthy discussion over it with my friend Tarun, when I came to know about one
of our friends, who attended an NDTV Talk show. There he asked a question to
the renowned Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam. He asked “Sir, if we look at the
amount involved in the 2G spectrum scandal, it is so big that if it would have distributed
among whole population of India, it would have accounted for about 1500 rupees
per head. So how can these people do this? Don’t they have conscience?”
“Don’t they have conscience?”
A big question! How can a person or a group of individuals
do such an act? If the amount was simply distributed among the poor citizens,
it could have provided millions of families’ their food for months. Don’t they
have any place for Gandhi Ji’s poor man? If you remember “Gandhi Ji ka Jantar”,
which is printed on every textbook of NCERT (I hope everyone has read that at
least once).
After a long discussion, we came to the common ‘semi-conclusion’,
“OK, it is so! This is already happening; we cannot just ignore it and cannot
undo it. We cannot control or affect everybody’s intentions and conscience. We cannot
blame them either. A Raja has said, “Sometimes I feel alone. I do not want
complaining heads but supporting hands.” So, without understanding anyone, we
cannot just blame him or her. ‘What can we do about it’, is the next question.”
What can I/we do about it?
Well, being the unit of the whole society I can be honest,
sincere and trustful at my place. And, everything that I desire in somebody in
the same or at a different position. This is definitely in my hands. So, this
is what I can do in minimum for the ‘society I want to live in’. If I fail to
do this, I cannot blame others around me because that will be just being biased
towards myself and closing eyes for my own faults, and making the unit of the
society itself corrupt. Only after I achieve this I shall be in the position to
change others around me.
I am not sure if I am doing hundred percent for it, but I am
damn sure that my percentage is increasing everyday.
Finally, we came to the following conclusion that I want to
share with everyone:
“If they don’t have conscience, I do. And, I can well use my
conscience to improve things around me. So does everyone. I cannot bring a
revolution and change everyone at the once, though I can work in a direction
and make things move and change slowly and gradually.”
“When all the ‘I’s’ around have same concept of ‘being’ and ‘being
conscience’, the concept of ‘we’ becomes beautiful.” :)
