Let’s Globalize Honesty
By Dr Arvind Kumar
Globalisation has brought the rich and the crooked together. Globalization has benefited a few and widened disparities between the haves and have-nots. Crookedness, dishonesty, exploitation and corruption have helped the rich become richer and the poor more poorer. Dishonesty and corruption are ubiquitous. Truth remains no longer a virtue
and has become a matter of convenience. Corruption has increasingly been accepted. In many ways, it has been legalised. Democracy has not only helped corruption to grow, but has institutionalised it. Globalisation has further hastened the process by bringing the rich and the corrupt together.
There is dire need of sensitive and concerned people to come together and stand up for the sake of honesty. Commitment to truth, honesty and sincerity should become a nationwide movement which should not be let to die down. Though a Herculean task, but is certainly do-able. Twin tasks of ‘inform and reform’ have to be launched from the grassroots by informing the people about virtues of truth, honesty, dedication and commitment so that they are reformed and imbibe these virtues. Well-informed and reformed people can set the tone and tenor for campaign against corruption through Gandhian techniques of boycott, Satyagraha and non-cooperation. Civil society should come forward to help localize the honesty and then globalize it with India as its launching pad.
