So the fast by Anna Hazare finally ends. Giving us some positive results. Well, I know, not everyone of us will term it as “positive”. Maybe for some this JanLokpal bill , will only add one more avenue for the breeding of corruption. Well, I won’t completely rule out the fact that this won’t happen. Our system has almost rotted due to this very malaise and it won’t be an easy thing to cure by just passing a bill. But isn’t this a step in that direction, a first step. And just because we fear that this will eventually come true, should we shy away from implementing something which is the need of the hour and has been ignored for the last 42 long years!!!Too much of cynicism, I say, when people fear change. Change which I believe is for good. And instead of having a pessimistic approach towards it, we may seriously give it a thought. It is TIME to get rid of this evil and for that we should not sit back, but take command. It is TIME to just go ahead and fight it against the bloody menace itself and the people who are practicing and spreading it. Its is time to clean up our house.

Picture this- A scam comes into public focus, media gives its 24×7 attention to it; we feel baffled as to how low our politicians can fall just for the sake of money. We feel guilty for having electing them. Then from one thing to another, the media finds a new muse, and our attention follows suit. All those cries to get those people behind bars gets lost, while we return to normalcy. Done!!! This is what we do every time, and with the exact discipline. But is this what we are going to continue doing in the future as well ?? Or will there come a time when instead of just sitting back , we are really going to do something???

Well , it is true that we all have lives of our own ,some have their families to run and a whole lot of chores to do than to take time out to clean the mess up. Kaun apne haath gande kare, bhai? When things like this happen , I end up remembering that climax scene of “ a Wednesday”. One of my all-time favourite movie. And that dialogue by Naseeruddin shah sir . “ hame khud ka ghar chalana hota hai saab, isilie hum aapko , sarkaar ko chunte hain…” yes. That’s the reason which we always end up giving ourselves. That it’s the work of the government to clean this mess up. But aren’t we the ones who elected this corrupt government? Well partly it is our fault . Not completely. The reason is that we fall short of choices. Elections, these days, are not to choose the best, but to choose the best of the rest. and no wonder we are bound to make mistakes. Those netas who are voted to power by us don’t even think twice before becoming our masters though we have appointed them as our servants. But what is done is done. No time to hold back onto them. Now the onus is only on us to make these goons of our society accountable.

The fact that the government has now issued a notification in this regard. The lokpal will soon be a reality. More than the passing of the bill, the fact that the civil society came together, to fight corruption just goes to show that how much anger had been brewing inside the people. And it was just a matter of time that this anger had to be collectively come out. The Jantar-Mantar episode is just a trailor of what the future beholds. That people have grown sick of the ways of our bloody Netas and We, as citizens of this country shall, instead of just criticizing the policies take the required steps to cure our nation of this chronic disease. We should appreciate that this movement of sorts has provided the much needed spark needed to set afire the model of corruption. Its time to join hands and fight the evil with all our might. And as they say, a journey of thousand miles starts with a single step, so first lets ablution ourselves and then lets start cleaning u our house with the combined efforts of everyone, with the hope to have a nation free of corruption. Its our time, we shall make it count..