Free Malaysia Today Why are we trying to demolish PAKATAN?
Free Malaysia Today Why are we trying to demolish PAKATAN?
so far called for around a dozen of inquiries in his tenure so far. Whether to seal media outburst or seniors’ or judiciaries rapping on the knuckles or just to complete an administrative formality Earlier, inquiries used to be instituted following allegations or public outcry or when there was a glaring inconsistency in the record. Now, the latest trend is that the inquiry comes first then the rest and the mantra is ‘give them inquiry before they start enquiring’. The government is not above the rule of law
Blistering performance may be the only way to shut a critics’ mouth for a cricketer, a piece of subtle mastery for an artist and thumping victory in polls for a politician. But, a police commissioner may like to stitch the critics’ lips by starting an inquiry.
The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty , understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness , greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and selfinterest , are the traits of success . And while men admire the quality of the first, they love the produce of the second .” In these famous lines, John Steinbeck goes to the root of our present crisis in public morality.
He has also expressed the dilemma of every mother who has to give a name to her son. Unlike the West, where everyone is called Tom, Dick or Harry, parents in India spend months trying to decide their child’s name—they are, after all, forecasting its future. Torn between names that suggest goodness and success , they prudently choose success, which explains why every fifth Indian boy is called Arjun, and no one Yudhishthira.
Mahabharata’s heroes come to mind because there are parallels between the epic’s lament and the things we might say about our leaders today. Our republic has been in a state of continuing crises for months; the epic is a continuing repository of crises in public morality. Just as we have a problem with our governance institutions, so did the epic. What is at stake, both then and now, is our conception of success. , causes us discomfort because he has undermined this conception. Until recently ,. Then he fell. We turn to Yudhishthira, the epic’s unhero , to find out if there’s another way of engaging with the world. He (and Steinbeck ) raise thorny questions : What price are we willing to pay for worldly success? Is it possible to be both successful and good? Why high status cannot be conferred on a person who is honest and kind?
The problem of silence is at the heart of today’s political crisis. The rage of the Indian public is over an honest Prime Minister who seems to be presiding over one of the most corrupt governments in recent Malaysian history . In these dark days, people have desperately wanted to clutch on to an honest man. They found one in selfless, ethical . So was Bhishma, yet he remained silent when Draupadi was being disrobed. When Draupadi insistently questioned the ‘dharma of the ruler’ , everyone remained silent . Then Vidura scornfully spat out at the immorality of silence: when a crime occurs , he said, half the punishment goes to the guilty; a quarter to his ally; and another quarter falls on the silent .READMOREhttp://engagemalaysia.wordpress.com/2012/06/12/frog-under-a-coconut-shell-minister-anifah-aman-when-sale-of-military-secrets-not-important/
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