what does independence day mean to yo1

7/31/2019 What Does Independence Day Mean to Yo1

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Moreover I will dedicate half of theindependence day in thinking what madeCongress Government to promote failures


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like Sushil Kumar Shinde to Home Minister,why the UPA is setting a trend in order topromote its biggest failures like Rahul

Gandhi, to Prime Minister and Sushil KumarShinde to Home Minister . I believe that notonly me but many of you must be thinkingwhy this decision to promote the formerPower Minister in the wake of Indias biggestpower crisis. When Shinde was PowerMinister, we had no power. Now he becomesHome Minister, then? Guess! If in case infuture Sushil Kumar Shinde thinks ofwriting his biography, it can be named The

Dark Night Riser.

Rohit Sharma should be made captain of theIndian cricket team.

Another ministers who will not let me doanything than of thinking is Uttar PradeshCM Akhilesh Yadav and his uncle PWDminister Shivpal Yadav , after Akhilesh told


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the media that his state was not to be blamefor the power grid failure. Then who to blamedude! The people, who voted for you?

Akhilesh Yadav asked shopkeepers to downshutter by 7 pm and stop using ACs duringpeak hours. Progressive CM makes Mayawatilook good! Akhilesh Yadavs governmentmust do more, and quickly, says fatherMulayam. All in the family!

Shivpal Yadav, PWD minister with theSamajwadi Party, said, and I quote As longas you work hard, you can steal a little, butdont behave like dacoits.

The implications here being that as long as

said officers deliver services to people, itsokay for them to make a little cheddar (or iftheyre Masterchef fans, emmenthal withgarlic) on the side. The caveat being, dontbehave like a dacoit which makes sensebecause how can you take a guy in a cavewith a shawl covering his face seriously

when asking for a water connection?

But then an even weirder thing happened.The media reacted with outrage, calling for


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his head. Watching this outpouring of angeronline and on TV taught me two things;

1) Nobody in the media has ever had to applyfor a gas, water, or phone connection.

2) If Fido Dido were old, jaded, and Punjabihe would look like Prabhu Chawala.

Does our media live under a rock? Or dideveryone in it suddenly realise they finallyhad an opportunity to use that awesome-but-so-far-useless idealism they paid so muchfor (try our latest design, we call it PoseurJhola) at journalism school? What ShivpalYadav said isnt outrageous, its realpolitik.Im now going to say something thatd make

Team Anna choke on their food, so itsprobably a good thing they dont eat any.Consider, for a second, if Shivpal Yadav isright; What if corruption is awesome?

I should point out, before I go any further,that I know as much about economics as

Navjot Singh Sidhu does about poetry. Sothis is the view from my chair, thats all. Butfrom this chair, it looks like corruption inIndia is like marijuana; everyones doing it,nobody wants to say it, and maybe


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legalisation IS the answer. It isnt an externalvirus attacking the system that is oureconomy; it was built into the source code.

Ripping it out blindly would be akin toripping three legs off a table. If youre goingto do that, youd better have another way ofholding the damn thing up. If you grind yourteeth at the thought of paying off everyonefrom your gas guy to the cop that stoppedyou from jumping a light, consider howmuch more annoying those systems wouldbe without corruption. Imagine standing inline for six hours when you could be at amovie or showing up in court when youresupposed to be at work.

Corruption keeps systems lubricated. Afterher two hour commute to a dead-end job thatpays nothing, maybe the lady that sortedyour passport out in two days instead ofweeks needs the extra cash you slipped herjust to stop from taking an axe to her co-workers heads. And why shouldnt you pay

a little convenience charge to the cop thatlets your bar stay open until 2 am? Heprobably has to work until 11. And thatsp.m, the next day.


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In India, corruptions a philosophy, not acrime. I love the word we use for it.Baksheesh. As a word, its so much more

romantic than ugly words like kickback, orbribe, or moist. Baksheesh implies thatyour payment is a gift, an expression ofappreciation at the fast-lane your tasks beenput in. Its an acknowledgement of the factthat someones making your life easier foryou, and youre helping them out with asurrogate financial reward they probablydeserved in the first place from whoever theywork for.

The truth of it is in Mr Yadavs second line.Dont be like dacoits. What if weve justgotten to a point where were executingcorruption wrong? The problem isnt that weare corrupt; the problem is that we aregreedy. Corruption works if you take fivethousand rupees, but then get a gas-connection to me. It doesnt work if you eat athousand crores but then deliver nothing but

potholes to the people. You are supposed torun a gravy train. But our government runs arailway network. Corruption only works if Iwalk away from the transaction in the sameway I walk away from a meal at a five-star


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hotel; I know I paid too much, but serviceand quality were so good, I can rationalise it.

Of course, Mr Yadav works as a PublicWorks minister in Uttar Pradesh, acombination of designations that is secondin sinister-ness only to son of Satan andHitler, so its entirely possible that hisdefinition of earning a little is nine millioncrores. But what if we could get corruption to

work for us? What if corruption IS awesome?What if Fido Dido DID get old and jaded?

What makes us special our individuality!

Happy Independence Day anyways!

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