One incident of World War II always inspires me. As the war was raging, one professor in Germany was engaging his class near a bunker. Totally unaffected by what was going on, he was sincerely teaching his students. Someone asked him as to how he could go on with his lecture amidst all the sound and fury of a world war. His reply was, ‘There can be two results of the war. Either Germany will lose or Germany will win. In both cases, we will need educated people to take charge of the country. I’m working for that.’ 
 
In my two and half decades of teaching at the university, I’ve realized the volatility of youth. Once a boy goes and shouts slogans, becomes part of the mass hysteria and God forbid, experiences retaliation or violence of some kind, he becomes useless for life. The utopia shown to him does not materialize. He does not study. He talks bombastically. Finally, he gets frustrated. The leaders who ride on the mob get to newer heights but the non-entity on whose shoulders, the voice and fame of the great ones rest gets lost forever. I’ve seen so many youth being cheated into grandiose ideology by rhetoric. You meet the firebrand five years later, and you’d find a negative, cynical person struggling for his bread. And the one who kept with his studies, his duties and his work is at some respectable place.
 
I may be wrong. Of course, my thoughts may be in need of correction. But evocation of public sentiments in the name of national pride is dangerous; at least to my mind. It indicates anarchy. Do these people realize as to what are they doing? If the balance is broken, it could be bad for our country. It’s like playing with fire.  The institutions that we’ve nurtured over the past six decades are sacrosanct. They must be kept sacrosanct. 
 
For Anna, anti-corruption crusade is only and only murdering the poor governmental employee. To see a super-fine, highly developed model of corruption, we should go to a place very near the place I live. The name of the place is Katni. The proverb in our region goes that in Katni, you’ll get a duplicate for everything, including yourself. Right from ‘Red and Cheap’, ‘Rebok’ and ‘Godej’, you’ll get everything. Some time back, we heard that they have developed artificial cashew nuts! The whole Indian market is stuffed with adulterated, duplicated items. It’s going full guns. That’s not corruption for Anna.

The way our representatives spend the money allotted to them for public welfare is known to everyone. But Anna doesn’t speak on it. The curse has to fall on the poor governmental employee. The whole country keeps on multiplying progeny. It doesn’t matter. But if a governmental employee has more than two children, s/he will lose job.

All experiments must be done on the poor creature! It’s a culture where we are promoting penalizing of educated, hard-working people. We are discouraging the youth from entering public service. We are promoting, what Mukesh Ambani recently called as ‘democratic paralyses’. No one will work. No one will take responsibility for decisions. The negative logic will say that I’m saying that if you don’t allow corruption, government won’t work. That’s not the case.

Anna’s approach is segmented. His definition of corruption is wrong. Promotion of incapable people, advantage of reservation to rich, highly placed people, and business corruption are grave examples of corruption. Hanging the governmental employee won’t do. Instigating the confused youth of the country out of your personal views or may be even personal interests is not good.