The best way to know the self is feeling oneself at the moments of reckoning. The feeling of being alone, just with your senses, may lead you to think more consciously. More and more of such moments may sensitize ‘you towards you’, towards others. We become regular with introspection and retrospection. We get ‘the’ gradual connect to the higher self we may name Spirituality or God or just a Humane Conscious. We tend to get a rhythm again in life. We need to learn the art of being lonely in crowd while being part of the crowd. A multitude of loneliness in mosaic of relations! One needs to feel it severally, with conscience, before making it a way of life. One needs to live several such lonely moments. One needs to live severallyalone.

Thursday 15 January 2015

KIRAN BEDI FORMALLY JOINS BJP: ANNA HAZARE IS MENTIONED IN SATIRICAL AND HUMOROUS COMMENTS - IRONY OF A MOVEMENT

Though it was long dead already, and what happened today was to happen sooner or later, thoughts went back there, in past,  bringing the reflections back.  

Anna Hazare led anti-corruption movement of 2011 - one of the biggest civil movements of independent India - was launched successfully against its own elected government - but, unfortunately could not sustain - due to its own fault-lines. Much has been written about it.

We cannot say corruption engulfed it. In fact, we can still find many valid reasons to deny this proposition.

Yes, but we can say that one of the central reasons behind corruption - Indian politics of the day - led to its 'efficient' winding up.

And within three years, the movement has been buried deeply. No one talks about it. The mentions don't go beyond occasional analytical pieces and discourses.

And the person who led it, who was the source behind the movement, who was the central plank around whom the movement and its campaign were designed by his 'ardent follower of the day, Arvind Kejriwal and an outfit named 'India Against Corruption'' was being mentioned with satirical and humorous mentions today.

-- By the acts of the people who used to be the core of the team behind the movement that made Anna Hazare a pan-India icon and an international figure and brought the members of 'Team Anna' in the socio-political thinking of the Indian masses.

The politicisation of the anti-corruption movement or to say political branching out of the anti-corruption movement that began with Arvind Kejriwal in 2012 reached to a full circle today with Kiran Bedi joining mainstream politics. We cannot say if there are other circles to come further on the way as almost of the big names of the movement, except few like Santosh Hegde, have taken the political plunge.

Majority of them went with Arvind Kejriwal led Aam Aadmi Party while those who alleged Arvind Kejriwal of compromising the movement chose to stay away. Kiran Bedi was the foremost among them.

And today, as was long expected, she emerged as the face of the party in direct confrontation with Arvind Kejriwal and AAP.

Arvind Kejriwal, Prashant Bhushan, Shanti Bhushan, Kiran Bedi, Medha Patkar, Shazia Ilmi, Kumar Vishwas - the essential names of the anti-corruption moment - are all political now.

Yes, some like Medha Patkar are continuing with their activism streak after losing the Lok Sabha polls, but most are fulltime politicians.

And even if we cannot place them, the neo-fulltime politicians, in the lot of the existing political class when it comes to corruption, they cannot be accommodated in our thoughts for the 'team' that made us to contribute to the anti-corruption movement of 2011.

The politics of AAP so far effectively tells us, that doesn't behave differently. They are acting like the political class who India has always seen.

And yes, I tried to find 'India Against Corruption' on the internet, but it seems it doesn't exist there any more.

Irony of changing India! Irony of Indian politics! Irony of political activism of India! Irony of India's need for change agents!

©/IPR: Santosh Chaubey - http://severallyalone.blogspot.com/