Institutions as Custodians

 

Turbulent times often times tend to offer positive solutions. Bharat that is the Indian nation,today has been witnessing a tirade of action plays being enacted by forces of law and order. Essentially against sinners of past regimes and like the Bible famously cautions-‘the wages of sin is death’.

 

Institutions such as the Enforcement Directorate and the CBI or SFIO and National Investigation Agency have come of age so to speak, not because they were less efficient hitherto the current establishment but more because they have come out of state of being tethered by the high priests of Statehood.

 

There was a time when caustic comments of ‘agencies being caged parrots’ were commonplace utterances by all and sundry.

 

The detention of alleged wrong doers who commit breach of please trust and pilfer coffers of a nation is germane to the concept of ‘equality before law’ : the collective fundamental rights of rest of society accompany the delinquent public servant’s claim of personal liberty. Just because a certain individual held public office of a constitutional position does not entitle claim of immunity excepting the President or a Governor. Mass media today is more a story of paid orchestra playing to galleries of paymasters with mad hatters party being enacted, day in and day out,so to speak.

 

While on the topic of autonomy of operations enjoyed by the institutions which are enjoined to enforce the rule of law, a word of homage be paid to upright officers who were hounded or killed even as few mad men (and madder women) seem to be busybodies engaged fastidiously in maligning those presently engaged in operations of combing out lice in systems developed over the decades.

 

A typical law enforcement official is an honest, unassuming patriot dedicated to assigned task of bringing to book wicked wolves masquerading as lions among citizens of our country.

 

The depiction of these do gooders as bribe takers and greedy swine by film makers grossly exaggerates the truth of black sheep who have infiltrated the institutions.

 

The time has now arrived to call out the defamers of hard working,honest men and women. Arraign these vermin and weed out schizophrenia as also mass hysteria from society. Nepotism is not the only root of corruption but defamation by demented and insecure characters welding mike or pen ought to be checked with a strictness deserving of their lowly existence.

 

How can common citizenry assist in such nation-building activities?

 

It is not sufficient to only pay tributes to great martyrs of defence,police and paramilitary forces but as important to spread the good opinion about the existence of brilliant, honest, capable forces living anonymously as cogs in the wheel of internal security. They need not be named by the rags or interviewed by private channels which have sprung a dime a dozen in recent years.

 

Youth are the voice of reason as well as the conscience of a nation,not merely tools for entertainment. Harness their energies to pin down the hypocrisy of so-called leaders in political sphere who are eulogised as fairy-tale heroes that grew from ‘rags to riches’.

 

The bubble has to burst sooner than later. Euphoria of caste-based politics must end. Regional language wars,parochialism and twisted logic expressed in dictated judgments ought to become things of past. 

Conscious efforts be made to reset the mindset of suffering masses,being bombarded by fake stories of paper-tigers who are being projected as bigwigs and stalwart leaders. As an old Hyderabadi saying goes,the monkey might grow old but does not forget it’s antics or acrobatics..

 

Wake up, Bharat beckons a new spirit of national character in consonance with our time-tested cultural ethos popularly known as ‘sanatana Dharma’. Honesty must transcend madness for money which invariably leads to total abuse of power. 

 

The sentinels of Dharma are in reality, Custodians of these Institutions created by the Constitution of India. It is to imbibe the pristine qualities of conscientiousness and steadfast focus on eradication of corruption from public realm.