The steel frame

                                             As I switched on the TV , there was a lot of hue and cry about an IPS officer making a constable do a front roll for some indiscipline on the part of the constable. There were as many as six people on the screen giving their opinions about what they thought was an absolutely unacceptable act in a liberal democracy like ours. Those armchair social workers and socialites suddenly acquired the right to give tips on how should an Addl.DCP be doing his job!!!   In the disciplined forces, corporal punishments are not taboo and are part of regular training and punishments. Anyone who has watched any of the movies related to armed forces or the police forces would know it.     Many a comments on various fora suggested that the IPS officers are cruel, must be suspended for meting out  such a punishment, must be made to apologize etc,etc…. realizing little that, if the same constable had shown impolite behaviour at a traffic signal to them they would want him to be hanged. The constable was supposed to have carried out his duties in a certain manner and it is through a system of rewards and punishments that a supervisory officer makes sure that everyone does his duty in an alert and disciplined manner. Such a reaction from people discourages young, bright and outstanding officers and they are often held to ransom by such sensationalizing media with little knowledge and  mindlessly supported by another bunch of mal-educated and internet savvy jokers who have an opinion on each and everything without having any knowledge or conscience

                         There was another incident of a particular  lady IPS officer slapping a lady protestor who was partcipating in a protest and  jamming the road. many many learned men and women of fragile intellect commented on you tube questioning the system of reservation, attributing the act of the lady officer to her ''low'' origins, some using the filthiest of hindi abuses against the officer.

                            I am not commenting  on whether the act of the officer was right or wrong , what i am pained to see is the mental bankruptcy of this new, internet savvy so called educated generation which is as ugly and rotten as the yellow journalists i had mentioned in my earlier blog……. Those who can name Britney Spear’s personal trainer but will not be able to recall the name of the Vice president of our country and those who don’t know about Dhyanchand but know how many months pregnant Angeline Jolie is!!!!! And they think its their right to comment on someone’s caste and on reservation , even when they know nothing about the  constitution which provides for it. They do know they have the freedom of expression under the same constitution and also have found out the caste of the of the lady officer, but do they know the same constitution has a chapter on the fundamental duties as well and do they know the caste of the Chairman of the Drafting Committee of the constitution. This shallow insistence on one’s rights without any deliberation on what one’s duties and responsibilities are, can we see where we are heading........????

                                  Reservation or no reservation, the members of the All India Services are those who chose to go to godforsaken parts of our country and serve the people there. If they could qualify this examination they could very well qualify many others with better salaries. Many who never ever lived anywhere other than posh localities in class 'A' cities, all their lives and could have been placed in the best of multinational companies with ten times their current salaries ,are serving in naxal affected districts with an imminent threat to their families' and their lives, many serve in places where there is no internet, hotel or even a restaurant to speak of. The intellectual abilities of their members is far better than most who sit on their computers every afternoon to comment for the heck of it ( or they think its cool) on people they hardly know,  with moral and social values  they can hardly comprehend.

                                        I strongly believe that it is because an all India service officer leaves his state and goes out to work in another state of the country , learns the language of the state and works there for 30-35 years of his life, that the democracy is working so well in this country and its integrity has been preserved unlike some of our neighbouring nations. I do agree that there are black sheeps everywhere but the bureaucracy of india under the given circumstances by which I mean the leaders ,the citizenry we are meant to serve, and the moral degeneration of the society in general .I think it is doing a pretty decent job out of it……