Flawed Anna-lysis

Every country is shrouded with corruption. Why it hurts us more is because in our country its prevalent at all levels.

When you have grease palms at your offense of defying the traffic rules to when you are rightfully seeking your own birth certificate; getting your kid admitted in school to when you need special attention in a general hospital; need a job or need a peaceful retirement, it is visible to all.

Though a very curious fact is that corruption, a practice which cannot be justified in any scenario is socially acceptable. Many profiles and jobs are considered lucrative and respectful only because they promise more than the stipulated salary and benefits.

So an ever-pinching, most frequently discussed and universally hated yet socially accepted corruption, got a new spin when Anna campaigned for its eradication.

Anna and his team, took the hefty task of cleaning the corrupt corridors of power through a very intellectual and transparent campaign. The support provided by hero-starved media and common man was obviously unprecedented.

But maybe, this support is because Anna, never asked the common man to change. There was no request made to defy corruption by denouncing giving and taking of bribes. Definitely the political corruption is much larger and it induces more drama to ask the corrupt to make laws to vanquish their own abilities to exercise corruption. But when you are in a room with dirt everywhere, you can reach out to clean from where ever you can start, you do not have to go on fast under the most unclean attic.

In the biggest democracy of the world, the biggest flaw is that all political parties are only superficially segregated. All of them are morally drained and power-cash hungry. This is why anti-incumbency factor is the most widespread feature of our election results. So if individual morality plunge further, one political party will give way to another equally corrupt regime & even the sought-after, fought-after, chaste and all powerful regularity body to monitor them may also fall prey to the same fate.

Power is disorienting, we are already aware of the team Anna itself giving very absurd, ineffectual and inept comments under the arch lights. So may be Anna should turn back to the followers and start a less glamorous campaign of social purification rather than political immaculacy.