Personal Responsibility and corruption

Starting Aug-16th in what has been characterized as the second freedom struggle for India,Unprecedented Media coverage has been given to Anna Hazare.While the nation has very rightly stood behind Anna and voiced its anger over corruption.I still feel that a lot more has to be done with respect to corruption.We have conveniently left behind our personal responsibility in the matter

How many of you would

1.Stop downloading movies/songs from the internet because they are pirated ?

2.Stop bribing the traffic cop and instead go to a court and pay the fine ?

3.Stop indiscriminately take xerox copies of the foreign author book/study material because it violates copyright?

4.Stop posting something on your Facebook wall and start doing something concrete instead?


Everything starts at the lowest level with self.Instead of blaming the government over and over again why do we not try to improve our country by correcting something we can.Of course it is basic human tendency to take the shortest and easiest way possible and it will be hard to break out of this , but at the end of the day nothing significant got done without hard work.

Also many innovative ideas are being proposed and some have been implemented to eliminate corruption.One innovative example was the number-plate registration procedure in the RTO.To get a fancy number earlier you might have had to shell out a bribe.However now the government collects money and even issues a receipt if you want fancy number.How cool it would be if bribes were legalized.What an idea Sirji???

I am pretty sure that we can all come up with innovative ideas such as these to lessen corruption.With this combination of innovation and personal discipline I am sure that corruption will come down far more effectively instead of the blame-game going on

"Be the change you want to see."