The unlikely crusader

In every country, independence movements begin with an individual burning with passion and commitment who is able to mobilize the many with his charisma.

In India it was Nehru who left a promising legal career to plunge into the freedom movement. In s Africa Nelson Mandela mobilized thousands from his prison cell.. Lech salsa was another one of those charismTic individuals who led his country.s freedom movement.

It was bobby Kennedy who said...“[There is] the belief there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of the world's ills-against misery and ignorance, injustice and violence. Yet many of the world's greatest movements, of thought and action, have flowed from the work of a single man. A young monk began the Protestant Reformation, a young general extended an empire from Macedonia to the borders of the earth, and a young woman reclaimed the territory of France. It was a young Italian explorer who discovered the New World, and the thirty-two-year-old Thomas Jefferson who proclaimed that all men are created equal.

"Give me a place to stand," said Archimedes, "and I will move the world." These men moved the world, and so can we all. ... Thousands of unknown men and women in Europe resisted the occupation of the Nazis and many died, but all added to the ultimate strength and freedom of their countries. It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.” Today the voices – the ‘ripples’ – are from Tibet, from Libya, from Syria, and from thousands of other spots around the globe where people find themselves unfairly subjected to the power of others including India today.

It is true that ".Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation".

We never know from whence thse individuals will emerge and she. Yes there will be false messiahs who will crash and burn in short order. But we do owe it to ourselves to look out for these individual in our lifetime.

In recent months there is one very promising. Young man who has given up a comfortable career to plunge into the maelstrom of Indian politics to try and make a difference. Will he be able to even make a small dent in the corrupt environment of India or fight the pores that today control the levers of power?

But we do need to give this emerging charismatic young man  look and mobilize support for his efforts.

Arvind kejriwal sprang out of nowhere to electrify the country. ..
If you’ve been following the news, you’re unlikely to have missed the  passionate voice of Arvind Kejriwal, the 42-year-old Haryana-born activist, who is determined to tackle corruption and help change the way India is governed.

An IIT-trained mechanical engineer, Kejriwal joined the Indian Revenue Service (IRS) in 1995 but resigned after five years there. While he was an Additional Commissioner of Income Tax in Delhi, Kejriwal quietly started Parivartan, an organization that has never been officially registered. It is run by a few young volunteers who have helped thousands of citizens get everyday benefits—like a ration card or an electricity connection—without paying bribes to government officials. Parivartan [which means change] is also spearheading research into the right to information (RTI) and governance issues. Kejriwal, a 2006 winner of the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Emergent Leadership, was also instrumental in campaigning to have the Central RTI Act passed.

Kejriwal lives just outside of Delhi, with his wife Sunita of the IRS (she is a former colleague), and their two children with whom the busy activist sometimes wishes he could spend more time.

It was Kejriwal who, dejected with the long-delayed official Lokpal Bill, was instrumental in drafting the Jan Lokpal Bill, much of it deriving from his experience with Parivartan. Before going to press, we asked Kejriwal if he expected that kind of national, in fact global, response from Indians to something for which he’s been the little-known prime mover.

In a short campaign he won enough seats in Delhi to become its chief minister, a post he resigned when his anti corruption bill was rejected in the Delhi assembaly.

His aam party has now decided to fight the national elections with his party putting up over 300 candidates nationwide. Maybe he will win enough seats to make a differce! But he merits our support.

The national elections begin in April and final counting will be on May 16.

So go this site and donate to his party's  campaign.


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