Kyunki Sach Bolne ka koi samay nahin hota.... !
I am grateful to Rahul Gandhi for
taking this adage seriously when he trashed the ‘Nonsensical’ Ordinance which
sought to save the tainted and corrupt leaders from the whiplash of our Courts
and the laws of the land. While Shri Lalu Yadav had to pay a heavy price by
accepting his new address in Ranchi Jail,
( there were others too...) the message was clear ; ‘As you sow, so
shall you reap...’ At least that was the
new ‘diktat’. It is also a undeniable truth that none of the established
political parties ( at least the two major ones) will be seriously doing any
heart search. Elections have to be won and compromises will have to be made.
That also is a ‘Sach’ which can not wait for any auspicious moment to be
stated.
Just pondering over the various
‘’truths’ or ‘Sachi batein’, and even though the list is endless, it is always
good to give a start ....another truth which can not be waiting for an
auspicious time !
We start our lives with all the
good things that we need to be being dinned into our ears right thru our cradle
days to school. By the time we reach college, we start believing that ‘thoda
aate mein namak milane se jyada koi farak nahi padta’. So we all keep on adding
salt (untruth) to our truth(aata) till we realise that we have ‘namak’ in the ‘aata’
ki bori ( life’s final scorecard ).
We start our responsible civic
lives with the premise that in order to survive this in ‘cruel’ world you need
to compromise once in a while. Otherwise how do we change the society and world
if we ourselves don’t survive in a ‘decent’ and ‘fair’ manner?! So we close our
eyes to all wrongdoings in the Government, the corporate world, ( of which I
was a hard working member ) and society ( of which I am a member) and we carry
on.
Till we confront the Frankenstein
we have created, be it in the form of wayside corruption, smart corruption in
the offices( Govt as well as Corporates), corrupt and dishonest intellectual discourses
and finally our helplessness to set right even the minutest of flaws of our civic
environment. As I said there are many, many truths which need to be stated to
ourselves and there is no ‘auspicious time’ our ‘opportune’ time like in the
case of Rahul Gandhi as mentioned in the beginning.
The greatest truth according to
me is the inherent capacity in a human being to recognise his or her own ‘untruths’
and know for certain the way ahead as was dinned in the ears ...many, many
years ago... It is just that we do not wish to face the pain and failure when
we try to embark on a truthful path ahead. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was the
only ‘human’ being who could face this pain and discomfort and yet he embarked
on his ‘Nidar’ path, something which he exhorted his countrymen to follow, very
successfully !
This country needs its people to
be truthful, honest, and courageous; and if Rahul Gandhi is attempting that
then full marks to him. My suspicion is that very inadvertently he has
rekindled the desire among many of us to ‘sach bolo’ even though ultimately
this ‘sach bolo’ funda may almost certainly expose ‘his’ Congress party of its
true colors.
Let us start our little ‘experiments
with truth’.
