Rang de Basanti (an email)

I feel the whole set up has a purpose. I mean different countries, states within a country and so on. The purpose is that since it's difficult to govern large territories they are subdivided so that managing a small region is a feasible task. And assuming that all such small regions would run asexpected the country/world as a whole is a better place to live in.
So it all boils down to how disciplined you are. How much we as individuals follow the rules set up. There's no real need to worry about things that are beyond your reach. If you cannot do anything about militants/naxalites waging a war against supposedly equally atrocious government, you worrying about it is anyway not going to solve the problem. We should be more worried about what we are capable of doing but aren't quite disciplined to do it. These could be simple things like, not littering, obeying traffic rules, paying the tax to name a few. If you feel you are following these, then you could possibly think about changing the things immediately around you.
There's nothing wrong with the system. There are laws and if people break laws there are people who have to ensure that this doesn't happen. But problem is the people. At least somewhere you need an honest person else no matter how many levels of supervisors you have nothing would go as per law.
I don't believe leaders ever have decided the fortune of a stateor country, it's the people who decide it. After all leader is not an outsider, it's one amongst them. Like they say in cricket, a captain is only as good as his team. Now India has it's best playeras the captain but then he can't change the fortunes for us. The rest of the players have to understand their responsibilities.

(written- 1st Feb '06)