Koi bhi desh perfect nahi hotha, use perfect banana padta hain...

Do you remember this dialogue from Rang De Basanti?? This movie was one of my all-time favorites. No, not because I am a die-hard fan of Aamir Khan or AR Rahman. It's just that the movie and especially this dialogue reminded me of what my daddy said years ago. He said: "beta, society is bad not because of the actions of bad people, it is bad because of the inactions of the good people'. I agree with him completely.

We often have this habit of cribbing. Yeh accha nahi hain...woh accha nahi hain....politicians are like this, bureaucrats are like that. I remember this incident...one of my aunt had come from UK to visit us, as she cribbed endlessly about how filthy our country is and how neat UK is; I noticed that the aunty was throwing choclate and biscuit wrapper on the roads. When I pointed out that she was dirtying the road, she casually said "arre, what's the big deal. Everyone does it naa". I just could not digest those words, I turned red, blue, green, yellow and all the primary and secondary colours available in the colour pallette and ran away from the spot. On one hand these people crib about how filthy and dirty our country is and on the other hand, these same people contribute towards making the place untidy.

Forget cleanliness, people do not even follow the traffic rules. Ab if you cross the road when the vehicles are moving, accident nahi hoga toh kya hoga. Above that, when the traffic police catches you, you get away by bribing him. Woh bhi happy, tum bhi happy.

Now whenever I take this topic, people try to hush me and tell me that I am ranting hopeless things and that we Indians can never improve. But I wish to disagree with them. Everybody has the scope for improvement. Valmiki the great was a rogue before he became a sage. You have to initiate the change. At the cost of sounding pompous, I wish to tell you something. I never throw wrappers and other stuffs on the road. Either I find a dustbin or if I find none in the vicinity, I carry it home and throw it in the dustbin. My friends used to tease me over this until one day, one of my friend got so accustomed to this weird habit of mine that she unconsciously started throwing things in the dustbin instead of throwing it on the road. That was the day when I really felt like a true winner.

So, the moral of the kahani is that if you wish to see a change in the society, initiate it. Don't wait for others to do something for you...desh will be perfect only if you make it perfect. And if you cannot do anything, then please stop cribbing.

Ok...aaj kaa lecture yahin khatam hota hain...Again will leave you with one of my most favorite songs from RDB. The RDB effect was so enormous that the public woke up from its slumber and saw to it that the Jessica Lall case gets solved soon.