If you are here in search of a brief bio on Anna Hazare, sorry you are in an absolutely wrong place, I am not going to write anything about his life here. The recent 'fast unto death' by Anna turned out to be a huge success to democracy and Gandhian values at the time of their decline all around the world. At the same time it drew criticisms from some people by drawing lines between Irom Sharmila's fast for the last 10 years against Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) which went unnoticed and didn't even have empathy of the public and Anna's fast against corruption which drew stupendous support all over the nation. Criticisms are unavoidable but it should be fair whereas here the critics failed to understand the basic difference existed in the aforesaid fasts.
The issue handled by Anna has affected every Indian cutting across caste, religion, politics lines because corruption doesn't spare anybody in India and also the successive exposures of various corruption recently made the public to react but that is not the case with Irom Sharmila as her issue is confined only within Manipur and affected only the Manipur people. An irony in Irom Sharmila's case is that fellow Manipurians failed to back her.
People react only to those issues which affect them directly or if they have personal leanings over those issues. One can not expect the people to be altruistic to fight for all the evils in the society or World since that is not their nature. People remain passive when the genocides happen around them, hardly there occur demonstrations/protests against the genocides.
Gaza strip is facing the worst humanitarian crisis because of the various blockades enforced on it by the Israel but none of us are either aware about it or worried about it. Palestine is just an example there are numerous such heinous acts organized by the State or fundamentalists for which we never reacted. The recent genocide in Srilanka failed to create an uproar even among the fellow Tamilians in India forget about the support for Irom Sharmila.
Just think about the misery caused by tsunami in Japan, most of the sub continent drowned into the World cup fever and totally forgot about the kamikazes who were fighting with the reactors, thats what we are. Now after the Lokpal bill committee was formed we were into IPL. The biggest question ahead is will Anna receive the same support if he sit for an another fast when Government fails to live up to its words.
Can one blame the people alone for what they are? No, it is the social set up and the system enforced on them make them more submissive, people never think beyond the boundaries in which they are, only few do that,of them only few fight to get pass the boundary.
People react only to those issues which affect them directly or if they have personal leanings over those issues. One can not expect the people to be altruistic to fight for all the evils in the society or World since that is not their nature. People remain passive when the genocides happen around them, hardly there occur demonstrations/protests against the genocides.
Gaza strip is facing the worst humanitarian crisis because of the various blockades enforced on it by the Israel but none of us are either aware about it or worried about it. Palestine is just an example there are numerous such heinous acts organized by the State or fundamentalists for which we never reacted. The recent genocide in Srilanka failed to create an uproar even among the fellow Tamilians in India forget about the support for Irom Sharmila.
Just think about the misery caused by tsunami in Japan, most of the sub continent drowned into the World cup fever and totally forgot about the kamikazes who were fighting with the reactors, thats what we are. Now after the Lokpal bill committee was formed we were into IPL. The biggest question ahead is will Anna receive the same support if he sit for an another fast when Government fails to live up to its words.
Can one blame the people alone for what they are? No, it is the social set up and the system enforced on them make them more submissive, people never think beyond the boundaries in which they are, only few do that,of them only few fight to get pass the boundary.
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