Anusha, you are right

'Nothing can happen until people stand up and regulate the system.' Just read your this comment in an IANS news. No person who is well aware of the Indian reality can't disagree with you. But, first congratulations for showing the mirror to politicians, journalists and the society at large through 'Peepli Live'. I've not yet seen the movie. But going by the media reviews, you have done a great job by drawing the nation's attention to a serious problem in a hilarious way. You have hit the bull's eye in your very first shot.

How true are your words to IANS: 'Absolutely nothing will happen, the whole state is doing nothing, how can you think that some people will see it and feel the pinch on what they are doing themselves.... .until people stand up and regulate it (the system).'

The classic case is of people's and media's lethargy about the mess we have made of the preparations for the Commonwealth Games. A crore rupee question is: Why has the media failed to break the stories about substandard and delaying construction of C'wealth projects?
It woke up from its Kumbhakarna-like sleep only when the CVC exposed serious irregularities in C'wealth projects. The media didn't take cue even from Mr Fennel who had warned us about our lackadaisical preparations 8-10 months ago our.

It's an open secret that certain people are making crores and crores illegally in Commonwealth projects. But most of poor labourers who are toiling day and night at C'wealth projects may not be getting even the statutory minimum wages.

A man in the street knows this. A journalist knows more than the common man about the murky goings on. The powerful RTI is there to get to the truth. But who has the guts and time to pin down the corrupt mighty. And, all this is happening under the very nose of over about 800 MPs, the top brass of the Indian bureaucracy and the powerful media houses of India in Delhi, the seat of India's power. Those in a position (inside or outside government) to check or highlight the rot eating into the vitals of India have no time for Mera Bharat Mahan.

Maybe all of them have taken an oath for "Main Chup Rahoonga/Rahoongi Aur Apne Cut Ki Chinta Karoonga. Bhar Main Jaye C'wealth Games or Desh Ki Izzat.' Salaam is Jazbe ko 15 August par jise paane ke liye lakhoon logon ne Angrejon ka atyachar saha or sekkod phansi par char gaye.