I thank God
for helping me to keep pace with my rigorous academic life and free myself from
the stress at home and office. The other day the disappearance of the water meter was loudly announced by the gushing of water from the broken pipe early morning.
It was not the first time this has been stolen;
if fading memory is right it is the third time. Why do people indulge in this
kind of theft? For a few hundreds of rupees? Will they ever realize how
the family members would suffer when
they wake up and start preparing to go
to office and school. Is it my karma or his specialized occupation to be blamed?
Being a hypertension patient I was careful not
to allow this to affect my body and mind. Every time it is stolen a few thousands
simply vanish into thin air and goes into the hands of labour creating job for
casual labour.I shared my pain with a sense of humour to one of my friends who
happened to be the church Father and also a school principal by saying that god occasionally gives me chance to spend
the hard earned salary to help the thieves and also the honest labor called upon to repair the damage.
What about the bigger thieves in different
walks of life ,these petty thieves would ask in case they are caught? When the rogues and criminals abound
in white collar jobs and tribes of politicians, business, bank and academics and
so on loot this country by hook or crook and the judicial system takes decades to punish the
culprit particularly high profile individuals who plunder in terms of billions
and trillions of dollars will you proud
to be Indians?
The tragedy
of this country is that the good and the honest finances the exchequer by
paying taxes and so many lakhs of crores
of rupees that PSU banks are unable to recover will fall on the poor people.While
we cry over petty thief we remain silent when well to do
hijack the economy in the name of crony capitalism and shameless open
market loot. All these economic offenders and the monitoring
and supervisory mechanism unable and
unwilling to take punitive action do not have any sense of shame and there is
no moral fibre to clothe the physical frame.
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