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| | The WE CARE FOR CHENNAI Network is not currently active and cannot accept new posts | | To Asif Ali and the yet-to-show solidarity members | Views: 127 | | Sep 14, 2004 5:28 pm | | To Asif Ali and the yet-to-show solidarity members | # | 
Govind Srinivasan | | Hello Asif,
Glad to know that you are a public-spirited person.
Asif, what I am talking about is completely different from what happens to political systems.
For example, if Jayalalitha goes, some other Chief Minister is going to come. That person is going to show his or her own style of governance.
Ours (India) is a country, where more than 60% of the educated public don't even vote. How will you change a Government for better, if the people who have access to information and the ability to discriminate between good and bad, right and wrong, refrain from voting. This big bloc is what MIDDLE CLASS is all about.
Obviously, what I am talking about is the MIDDLE CLASS apathy.
A strong public consciouness is a pre-requisite for a healthy democracy. If this is absent, what you get is different shades of non-sense and not sense.
50 people taking up a public cause and speaking in one voice and asserting before a Public Authority will make all the difference, than 100 Million voters leaving their fate to be decided by a Chief Minister.
Even if we assume that we change the Government and bring a public-spirited and efficient Chief Minister, what is he going to if the road-contractor bribes 25% of the contract value to all and sundry? What is he going to do, if the Traffic Police Constable is busy collecting his "Mammool" from an errant truck-driver, after compelling him to stop in the kerbs, and NOT bothered about regulating the traffic.
What about the haphazard way the typical cyclist pedals about, weaving the road from left to right and right to left? What about the energetic and the heroic Yamaha Motorcylist, sincerely believing that the roads are meant for showing his acrobatic skills compulsorily?
Ultimately it boils down to the fact that it is the typical public spirited persons, who can take on this mission. I know this is difficult to achieve. Public spirited persons conveniently lament about traffic indiscipline and make jokes about the corrupt traffic cop, sitting in coffee shops. In fact, many of them are even much afraid of just police constables.
I know that what I am trying to get into is a tough task. But there is no point in leaving it aside either. Right?
Pl put your efforts to make this Network a viable and an effective one. Pl go through my first posting again, if you would like to get the msg clear. I request you.
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