No no , don’t think that I am going to tell you any theory
about corruption or any philosophy of corruption, “what is Corruption?” is title
of a story, yes today I am going to tell you a story of a King, who was known
for his excellence ruling system.
Long time ago, there was a democratic state where people
themselves would like to chose who would become next king from the Royal
family, there was a situation when King was no more and people have to select
their next king but Prince was very immature to become king and Queen was from
other state so people decided that royal family’s most loyal and most honest
minister should be crowned as king, and they did.
King was ruling the state under the guidance of Queen;
meanwhile Prince was becoming young and playful, he was popular amongst other
loyal friends of Royal family.
Everything was going fine, but suddenly there was a massive
chaos in the state about corruption and scams. Everywhere people were saying
that Corruption is increasing day by day and everywhere it is causing problem
for common man.
One day King held a meeting with all courtiers, discussed
with them that people are crying about corruption, people are saying that they
see everywhere corruption, I haven’t seen yet, have you seen ever? If anybody
of you has seen corruption then tell me, how it looks like? Is it a worm, virus
or a bacteria or it is something sent by our enemy states?
All courtiers said in one voice, “my lord, when it is not visible to you then how we can see it?”
King said, “No, it’s
not like that, sometimes something which is not visible to me, you might see,
such as I don’t see any nightmare but you must have seen.”
Courtiers said, “Yes
we see nightmares but that is all about dreams, here it is reality sir.”
King said, “all right
then, go and search for Corruption in whole state, if you find somewhere then
bring a sample for me, I want to see how it looks like.”
Then one Minister said, “Sir,
we will not be able to see corruption, we heard that it is very small and you
know that we all are working under Queen’s big umbrella, and her personality is
so huge that we are used to see huge things only and we can not see small
things.”
Then another minister interrupted, “by chance if corruption comes in front of us even then we will see only
madam’s image in it, we could not see anything else.”
one of the courtier said that he knows the solution, he
said, “sir, I know there is a species
called CBI in our state, they are able to find such small things, they are
expert so I request you to invite them and ask them to find CORRUPTION.”
King did the same, he appointed 5 people from that special
tribe called CBI, he asked them to find out about corruption and scam, and if
they find it then bring a sample to court room. CBI people started finding the
desired thing; they kept for searching for 2 months and then returned to King.
King asked them, “Experts,
have you finished your enquiry?”
“Yes, sir!”
“Did you find
corruption in our state?”
“Yes, we found lots of
CORRUPTION in your state.”
King extended his palm towards them and asked, “Give me a little bit, let’s see, how it
looks like?”
Experts said, “sir, you can not hold it in your hands, it
is not substance, it is Imperceptible, inapprehensible and supersensible, but
it is omnipresent, which can not be seen, and not be touched you can only feel
it, smell it.”
After hearing these many big words
for corruption, king lost in his thoughts for some time and came back to
experts, “you said it is omnipresent and
impalpable, but these are qualities of god, so you mean corruption is god?”
“Yes sir, now corruption has become god for many people in your state.”
Then a courtier asked “but where it is, how it smells like?”
Experts replied, “it is everywhere, it is in this building, on
the roads, gardens of your state, it is in bridges, it is in schools, in
offices, in coal mines, in commonwealth games grounds, in railways, in
administration, it is even in weapons, in the chair of queen, PM and you all
courtiers it is also in shirt of the King.”
Is it in my shirt?? Where? King swiftly jumped out from his chair
and stripped in the front of all courtiers.
Experts covered the king with a shawl and said,
“Yes sir, it is in your shirt, last time when you gave contract for all
your dresses then the bill which was generated and presented in court was fake
bill with 10 times increased price value. There are mediators involved in your
government, they mostly eat money in between, and there is corruption in all
your administration.”
King was very worried, he asked to
experts about the remedy of this disease, can it be cured?
Experts said, “absolutely sir, it can be cured, you just
need to change the system, you have to eliminate the opportunities of
corruption, you have to speak against it sir.”
“what? I have to speak ? no no, I cant do that, madam will punish me.” King
said.
Then Experts explained him that he
has to speak to madam and not to the public, so King was ready to talk to
madam.
“you said there are opportunities of corruption everywhere, how it is ?
I cant see it.” King asked to Experts.
“sir, there are opportunities for example, if there are contracts then
contractors and if there are contractors so there is bribe for bureaucrats in
the same way if there are big projects under government then there is
opportunity for the concerned ministry.”
King said to them “okay you submit your report to PMO, we will
review and discuss in our ministerial meetings”.
King discussed the same with Queen
Madam, madam was also worried that how to eliminate this corruption, people
will not believe in royal family if they were unable to remove this bug.
Queen asked to her most qualified
law makers on this situation, how to deal with it? People said,” madam, do not worry, people are used to
of it now, they know that there is corruption, and it is part of their life now,
so we should not worry, burn the CBI report and files. No one will ask what
happened, we will say that corruption is like some black magic and it is imaginary.”
Other courtiers also said that to
change the system is not possible it would be a new problem, everything will be
turned down, all arrangements will be disturbed, we need such solution that we
don’t need to change anything and corruption also can be removed.
Queen reciprocated the concern, “yes, I too wanted to find such solution, our
ancestors knew some black magic to eliminate any problem, that is why they
could rule this state for so long but what I do now?”
And here comes the master piece….
One of her family friend said “madam, we should do the same trick, what
your ancestors used to perform, we should show the huge rich-poor gap to
people, we should show sympathy to one specific group of people who are
expanding day by day, we should declare them special tribe and we should feed
them, give them land and security but not education and job, the other tribes
will be jealous and instead of asking their right from us they will fight to
the special tribe and all these fool people will fight each other and forget
about CORRUPTION. This is the trick all your royal family used to perform, they
learnt it from previous emperor, who did the same with this whole Ireland
Queen was impressed with this
solution, some courtiers objected then queen showed them the corruption report
and threatened them that “CBI Experts” will find out more about you if you do
not agree with me.
All courtiers agreed to madam, and
they did what madam said.
Then once again the Royal family
showed the Black Magic which is also called secularism, and the people of that
state can be seen fighting everyday, they fight with each other, burn homes of
each other, they abuse each other, they do not bother if they are unemployed,
if they are uneducated, if they are hungry, but since their tribe is special,
they will fight for it and here Royal family are having worry free and lavish
dinner everyday which is cooked in the fire generated when these innocence and ignorant people torch each other's homes.
I am hopeful that One day this black magic will be exposed, and people will understand that fighting with each other is not the solution, but we have to fight against the hunger, unemployment, poverty and illiteracy.
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