Corruption Dichotomy

The great Indian middle class is a manifestation of huge paradox. The people who abuzz with protests and slogans against systemic corruption and align with Anna Hazare to show their solidarity for anti-corruption drive never know what's being cooked at their home front for their upbringing. It's a fashion in India that the same people who castigate others for a crime are often involved in the similar crimes. There is no dearth of armchair theorists here for judging others on a scale on which they stand nowhere. Blaming only politicians, bureaucrats, and judiciary won't be justified if we exclude the potential Indian middle class people who are equally a party to the endemic corruption in India.

Many sociologists and economists have written volumes about the epochal evolution of Indian middle class and their participation in accelerating the Hindu rate of growth, but the sad part is that beneath their glorious contribution to the galloping national and global economy lies a disdainful modus operandi that snowballs into a humongous collective greed, which drives them to achieve the unachievable through whatever means, and from there evolves the systemic corruption.

Corruption is a Frankenstein created by this middle class. If they are facing its brunt now, they shouldn't blame the ruling class only. There is an adage: as you sow, so you reap. If the ruling class is finally behaving unruly, it's you people who have endeavored relentlessly to transform them to this intolerable stage. Your charm for instant success and quick fame has eventually paved an eternal path towards systemic corruption.

Here are few pertinent questions to these middle class people who only know how to complain about others when their interests are challenged and regulated: Why didn't these people control their passion for collective greed? And why are they only blaming a selective few in this dirty game when they are also an indispensable part of it? When these people were enjoying the cake and eating it too, did they ask their parents as how was it possible? Did they ever inquire about the means of all the luxury they have had that didn't commensurate to the honest income of their parents?

And now that Anna Hazare has started fighting for a cause, which is of course genuine in nature, they are now showing their solidarity. Remember, Anna Hazare is truly an honest person. He has no intention for instant success or quick fame. What he desires is to bring in a solid mechanism to deal with corruption in every place and cadre. I have a serious advice to the people who want to be aligned with Anna Hazare: They should go back home and ask themselves and their parents first whether they are corrupt or not, if they get a satisfactory response, then they should come forward to fight against corruption. Till then they should correct their home.