PRELUDE: This open letter was sent to me for review yesterday late at night by my student, Ajay, a team member of a group that we had — the ‘Creatineers’ . The letter intrigued me. I thought of sharing it with the readers of Iris and he immediately agreed. The letter, its views, its authorship and copyright belongs to Ajay. This weekend post that we have is a guest post from a member of the student community.
Hello Mr. Hazare,
I am another Indian who never saw you face to face. I got to know about you from newspapers, then I saw you on television and suddenly you just exploded. Everywhere there is Anna ado, people talking about you, claiming you as the next Gandhi, the only ideal Indian left in the nation …..blah blah…..You know even my mobile Inbox is flooded with messages to support you. My mother is not able to watch her daily soaps because my father keeps on swapping different news channels just to know what your next action would be.
I am a guy who has a girlfriend who keeps on annoying , who has sucking friends, who does Facebook for more than 5 hours a day, sms, chat, movies, partying, studies etc. Amid all this, do you really expect that I have time for politics and corruption kindaa stuff…I am 21 and I never voted and seriously I don’t have any faith in democracy. Yaar, I know not if everyone of them is corrupt but we all know that most of them are, then what’s the point voting. Leave it.
Anna but to me you are a potent guy, potent of changing things, I mean whole nation is with you, seriously there has to be something in you. You wear Gandhi topi and appear Ideal, to me you are a beacon of hope and triumph of change. Parties are accusing that you are corrupt …ooh my god they have a habit of saying it about every person who stands against them and they think people of India will believe them. I know you can never be corrupt…aah you heard that rhetoric “supremacy of parliament”. Parliament can never be above people, see people are there to support you, they are on roads, they have jammed traffic for you, whole Delhi is on march. Huhhh!!! and they still think that Parliament is superior, what do they think of themselves?? Do they think we are this dumb???
I need to calm down. It’s everywhere,it’s on Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, Google +,you name it and we have it there. Even my status says “Anna tu hai aaj ka gandhi,tuney laayi jag me aandhi”..cool na??? hope you like this, it got more than 50 likes on facebook. Huhhh !! let’s end it all here, you are a leader, now one who is nationally renowned. This is the time when I should step out of my home to support you but look I’ve something important on Friday so I can’t. I am constantly supporting you online by sharing articles and info about you. It’s time that you sway in our lives like a paragon and wipe out all the woes.
Anna now you are India and India is Anna. I support you, country supports you, media is with us leaving everything else. It’s been 11 days since you are fasting,I believe that there is something divine in you that is holding you. Indians are crazy about messiahs — we are not confident of our capacities. We die in the hands of terrorists, we party, we earn Rs.80 per day — but who says we can fight our own conscience and the corruption within us and become heroes ourselves. We need gods and heroes to save us. We have waited enough for messiahs — we can’t fast ourselves, so we need you to fast for us. The real Mr. India, in this battle of right against might ,we rely on you .Go on, Go Anna.
Anna, please break your fast because I can’t fast with you — feel hungry often and need ‘breakfast’.
Jai Hind, Jai bharat
shacky
P.S:I hope you will reply back to me at “shackythechillguy@gmail.com”
SUPER-AWESOME !!!
Dear Shacky,
You have written a warm letter to Anna — hope he reads it. I like part where you write we can’t go hungry where Anna is. That is a sad part, we can only extend online support but when it comes to fighting for rights, we youngsters back off. Wonderful article and fantastic letter
A sane appeal by the representative youth of the day, an honest entreaty. And a fine gesture by the host.
“I am a guy who has a girlfriend who keeps on annoying , who has sucking friends, who does Facebook for more than 5 hours a day, sms, chat, movies, partying, studies etc”
its really awsum to read such a truthful letter from a guy admitting all dese…!!
aww MR. RATHORE i really appreciate u for dis!!
and hope mr. hazare wud get dis!!
and be ready for ur NOBEL prize..;)
(in future)
Consistent and true in it’s sarcasm for the self–and enlightening in that it is insightful of how a majority of us think–great letter. However, somehow I’m getting the sense that you’ve tried to point us where we are uncomfortable looking at–the part where we know the movement is hollow. The youth only contributing as a word-spreader, rather than the thinker, the debater.
So I find that layer of the article striking. Do you really intend to comment upon how we might have simply become cult-followers–this is apropos the statement “I mean the whole nation is with you–there has to be something about you”. ?
First of all Thank you Anne de Plume for publishing this letter on Iris and the overwhelming response that I got from your readers is staggering ,this feeling is b’ful. Hope you will continue to give me chances to write on Iris.
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@Parth sir: Thank you very much .
@Radhika : Thank you for your comment. You are a part of youth,go ahead, there’s nothing that can stop you.
@Seshram: Thank you
@Anshu Singh: Thank you for the comment but actually that was shacky’s life not mine. Even I wish that Anna Hazare should read this and about the Noble Prize,I hope it can wait for few years …ha ha ha
@Naman sir: You have interpreted it so b’fuly that I need not to explain much and by your comment I got certain of one thing that I am successful in communicating with the reader. You precisely pointed out my exact concern of youth becoming “word-spreader, rather than the thinker, the debater”. Thank you for your comment