An open letter to Mr Kejriwal
5 Nov 2012 10:36 PM GMT
Without hesitating and wasting any time I want to tell you that I am annoyed or in a common man’s words I am pissed off. I am so pissed off that I decided to take off from my office today and instead of staying in bed, I chose to write this letter to Mr Kejriwal. Before I lose my anger, let me quickly finish off this letter so that I can rush off to bed for what little is left of my holiday.
Mr Kejriwal, I don’t have a list of 27 questions like the Congressmen. Actually I don’t know the count yet but we will figure out by the time I finish writing this letter. Let’s begin with my introduction. I am, what you claim to be – a common man. A real common man. I think this introduction is sufficient to have an intelligent conversation among two gentlemen.
First of all I want to know whose idea was it to wear that ‘I am a common man’ cap during interviews? Is it too difficult to understand that if your name is Arvind, you need not put a T-shirt or jeans or any accessory to keep on telling this to everyone.
My second question is how can you even claim to be a common man? You are an ex-IITian. Do you even have any idea when was the last time a common man got admission in IIT? Let me tell you – never. A common man is the guy who gets entry in IIT institute only to buy the prospectus. He is the one who gets around 68.33 per cent in the 12th standard examination and then somehow manages to get admission in some art or commerce course. And if he decides to go for engineering, the only option he has is Asia’s largest university – Lovely public college. Almost all common-engineering -men are from the same college. And as if clearing JEE was not sufficient, you went ahead and cleared civil services examination too after that. If after all this, you still call yourself a common man, then let me tell you that we are left with 300 common men in this country.
My next and most important question is - What do you want? Look, we were all living peacefully – me, my family, Congress, BJP and their families. You came from somewhere with this idea of common man, India Against Corruption and completely screwed our happiness. How do you know that India is against corruption? I am a common man and I completely believe in the power of corruption. Going by your educational background I am sure you would not have ridden motorbikes without helmets or jumped traffic signals. Do you have any idea how good it feels to break traffic rules? Corruption is the only way by which a common man can feel like Manu Sharma in this country. Corruption gives common men some hope among despairing situation that he can be saved even after doing anything, after breaking any rule. And you want to take away even this hope from his life.
Yes, I know you can do that, because you don’t understand the psyche of a common man. You must have topped throughout your academic career and would have got all the attention from your teachers and the girls in your class. And a common man like me went unnoticed throughout his teenage days because there was no way we could have bribed our teachers. I grew up as an under-confident kid for the same reason. It’s only after getting into an enginnering college where we could get question papers leaked before exams, I started living like a confident human being. Let me tell you that if I weren’t so lazy, I would have started a campaign ‘India for Corruption’. And you would have gone into depression looking at the millions of followers for our campaign.
Tell me another thing – why is it so important for you to expose so many people? What do you think we were not aware of about Mr Vadra, Mr Gadkari or Reliance. Even a kid knows about corruption in our country. It is part of our culture.
Now, your constant exposure of one party after another every other day makes it difficult for me to move on. We all knew that we have been fooled but then a fooled man also has a right to live. Now, you tell me, is it good to make a blind person realise about his incapabilities? Is it a good habit to remind someone how he was fooled and dumped by his ex. I can’t understand why are you so insensitive?
We were quite content with this inflation, corruption and incredible rise in land price. Even when I heard about Mukeshji’s plans of Antilla in the midst of my struggle to come up with a one BHK apartment, I never attributed it to corruption. I always thought it was a reward for his or his father’s hardwork. I did not complain as I attributed my failure to my lack of hardwork. Now, because of your allegations I cannot sleep at night. I always knew I could not work hard and I had no qualms in accepting that I am lazy. But after your exposure of Mr Ambani, it dawned to me that there is a possibility to make a palace like Antilla, only through corruption. This makes the whole episode very difficult for me. To realise that it was not out of my reach.
Finally, Mr Kejriwal, I have a small request for you. My suggestion to you would be to please find all these honest and uncommon men of principles and take them to some other country. May be you can take a state in the northeast or in south India and start your separate honest democracy. I am sure neither me, my family or our politicians will mind that. Please let us live here with corruption. I am already quite scared after talking about a corruption-free nation. Hope you understand.
Sincerely yours,
A non-IITian,
non-IAS common man
Mr Kejriwal, I don’t have a list of 27 questions like the Congressmen. Actually I don’t know the count yet but we will figure out by the time I finish writing this letter. Let’s begin with my introduction. I am, what you claim to be – a common man. A real common man. I think this introduction is sufficient to have an intelligent conversation among two gentlemen.
First of all I want to know whose idea was it to wear that ‘I am a common man’ cap during interviews? Is it too difficult to understand that if your name is Arvind, you need not put a T-shirt or jeans or any accessory to keep on telling this to everyone.
My second question is how can you even claim to be a common man? You are an ex-IITian. Do you even have any idea when was the last time a common man got admission in IIT? Let me tell you – never. A common man is the guy who gets entry in IIT institute only to buy the prospectus. He is the one who gets around 68.33 per cent in the 12th standard examination and then somehow manages to get admission in some art or commerce course. And if he decides to go for engineering, the only option he has is Asia’s largest university – Lovely public college. Almost all common-engineering -men are from the same college. And as if clearing JEE was not sufficient, you went ahead and cleared civil services examination too after that. If after all this, you still call yourself a common man, then let me tell you that we are left with 300 common men in this country.
My next and most important question is - What do you want? Look, we were all living peacefully – me, my family, Congress, BJP and their families. You came from somewhere with this idea of common man, India Against Corruption and completely screwed our happiness. How do you know that India is against corruption? I am a common man and I completely believe in the power of corruption. Going by your educational background I am sure you would not have ridden motorbikes without helmets or jumped traffic signals. Do you have any idea how good it feels to break traffic rules? Corruption is the only way by which a common man can feel like Manu Sharma in this country. Corruption gives common men some hope among despairing situation that he can be saved even after doing anything, after breaking any rule. And you want to take away even this hope from his life.
Yes, I know you can do that, because you don’t understand the psyche of a common man. You must have topped throughout your academic career and would have got all the attention from your teachers and the girls in your class. And a common man like me went unnoticed throughout his teenage days because there was no way we could have bribed our teachers. I grew up as an under-confident kid for the same reason. It’s only after getting into an enginnering college where we could get question papers leaked before exams, I started living like a confident human being. Let me tell you that if I weren’t so lazy, I would have started a campaign ‘India for Corruption’. And you would have gone into depression looking at the millions of followers for our campaign.
Tell me another thing – why is it so important for you to expose so many people? What do you think we were not aware of about Mr Vadra, Mr Gadkari or Reliance. Even a kid knows about corruption in our country. It is part of our culture.
Now, your constant exposure of one party after another every other day makes it difficult for me to move on. We all knew that we have been fooled but then a fooled man also has a right to live. Now, you tell me, is it good to make a blind person realise about his incapabilities? Is it a good habit to remind someone how he was fooled and dumped by his ex. I can’t understand why are you so insensitive?
We were quite content with this inflation, corruption and incredible rise in land price. Even when I heard about Mukeshji’s plans of Antilla in the midst of my struggle to come up with a one BHK apartment, I never attributed it to corruption. I always thought it was a reward for his or his father’s hardwork. I did not complain as I attributed my failure to my lack of hardwork. Now, because of your allegations I cannot sleep at night. I always knew I could not work hard and I had no qualms in accepting that I am lazy. But after your exposure of Mr Ambani, it dawned to me that there is a possibility to make a palace like Antilla, only through corruption. This makes the whole episode very difficult for me. To realise that it was not out of my reach.
Finally, Mr Kejriwal, I have a small request for you. My suggestion to you would be to please find all these honest and uncommon men of principles and take them to some other country. May be you can take a state in the northeast or in south India and start your separate honest democracy. I am sure neither me, my family or our politicians will mind that. Please let us live here with corruption. I am already quite scared after talking about a corruption-free nation. Hope you understand.
Sincerely yours,
A non-IITian,
non-IAS common man
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