2011 was probably one of the best years for our country post independence! The whole country had united to stamp out corruption with Anna Hazare leading the charge! I had gone to Ram Lila Maidan myself! What a surge of hope we felt! We really believed we were stepping into the light!
And look at us now! Back to a splintered, divided, disunited state, ruthless black marketeering and plunder devastating the common man even in a pandemic, and the spirit once again fatigued by a government that's possibly one of the worst we have seen since independence! So sad!
Comment from a friend on the above:
True. That was the year the citizens held the government accountable and were even able to introduce a law. The country was firing on multiple cylinders - economy, entrepreneurship, press freedom, internal harmony, civil society, civil discourse, citizen involvement and international stature. Now the only thing alive from all of the above is entrepreneurship with startups. How long that can keep the country running is to be seen.
My addition:
This might surprise you: One of the journalists who tried
to shout down the India Against Corruption movement was Karan Thapar. He
interviewed Arvind Kejriwal on The Devil's Advocate and told him with as much
contempt and hostility that he could muster that the movement was undermining
our system of parliamentary democracy. I feel like calling him up and asking now: "So, How's
our parliamentary democracy doing now?"
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