- There has to be just one focus –
‘Lokpal’ – efforts should not be diverted unless this goal is achieved.
Any agenda diversification is like diluting the stakes involved in having
a powerful ombudsman institution.
- The ‘Jan Lokpal’ focus has to be
realigned. Initially it was about bringing the proposed ombudsman
institution on legislative platform. Now it has to be ‘Lokpal’ awareness
campaign intended to reach to the masses outside metros and big cities.
- A strategy should be drawn to
chart the ways to find how the ‘Lokpal’ can be put on the trajectory the
RTI Act has been on. RTI has been a real empowerment tool and ‘Lokpal’
needs to go beyond that.
- The movement since its genesis
till now has sustained on the wave of Gandhian Symbolism embodied by Anna
Hazare. In the next step, an efficient team is needed to consolidate and
strengthen the gains made. A core group of these five would never be able
to achieve this. Activists from diverse backgrounds, areas and expertise
need to come together.
- Gandhi has always been relevant
and the reignited Gandhian fervour has given the much needed chance to
revisit the Gandhian ideology and political vision. The need is to
capitalize on it.
- Multiple groups on the ground,
beyond social networking, are needed to connect the dots, from Nagaland to
Gujarat, from Ladakh to Rameshwaram.
- The difference of internal
democracy, dissension and diversity of opinion is to be understood. A
solid team for a cause like ‘Lokpal’ needs to maintain the culture of healthy
debate on diversity of opinion.
- As the human force associated with
such causes are volunteer in nature, strict discipline in observing the
mutual respect is a must – and members quitting the ‘Lokpal’ movement are
sighting Kejriwal’s dictatorial ways as one of the main reasons. No one,
not even Anna Hazare can be allowed to hijack the momentum achieved – and Arvind
Kejriwal needs to understand it.
- Agreed, media management including
social networking was apt during the August Fast but it has been equally
lethargic post-August. Media can be managed to propagate ideas and ideals
to spread the message to strengthen the ‘Lokpal’ movement. Instead of
reacting, proactive measures can be designed on media and social
networking platforms to aware and include.
- And above all, the need is to save the soul from empty rhetoric of loose cannons. People understand – support to April and August Fasts shows that – they will understand even now. Getting to the same level of sledging with adversaries would only deteriorate the seriousness of the issue.
every moment that passes has a message but we tend to distort the guide of the moment to the tune of our thinking that it becomes irrelevant..we misinterpret individuality then but we seldom realize..but the message remains the same..we need to go beyond..alas! we seldom go..
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.