The Taste of Conquest

There is a saying that every good thing is surrounded by some bad things. Most like a nucleus in the atom as surrounded by the electrons because it contains as many positive charges (or positive power in other word) to combat the sum total negativity of the electrons (or the negative power in other word) and because it is the contrast that makes the GOOD glitter. Likely as we cannot define light if there is no darkness or we cannot feel the thrill of joy if there is no grief or sadness. Thus the taste of any good thing, call it a good lunch, a good movie or a good sport, cannot be enjoyed if we are not frenziedly desirous of that. Such is the experience of the people of India in the recent episodes of Cricket World Cup Final in Mumbai, Anna Hazare in Jantar Mantar, Delhi and Akhil Gogoi in Guwahati, Assam. It is needless to say that these are all victories of Indians in different arena.  But to my opinion the later two have a different dimension added to. In World Cup Cricket we have gained victory over another country in a sporty manner where one is not considered to have enemy (In sport we do not see enemy, we see only sportsmanship). But the victory what the people of India has won under the captaincy of Anna Hazare and Akhil Gogoi is against the enemy within us. The magnitude of such a victory is sky-high. We cannot afford to miss it. The corruption in the country as went unabated like unleashed mad dogs started eating up from within like the offspring of a crab eating up their mother. Had there been no Anna Hazare or Akhil Gogoi  to come up with the issue to protect the interest of the future generation we perhaps would’ve had to become the mother crab.