As citizens of this country unite in their fight against corruption, our government – supposedly of the people, by the people, and for the people – is in complete denial. They’ve chosen to refer to this movement, which has captured the imagination of people unlike anything that we’ve seen since Independence, as undemocratic, and even anarchic.

Allow me to bring in a motoring analogy in an attempt to explain this to our ‘ruling’ political class. Now they may not be able to relate to this from the curtained back seats of their red beaconed armoured cars, but the rest of us are actually quite used to anarchy in our daily lives – we experience it every day to-and-from our way to work, as we fight tooth-and-nail with other motorists for that valuable piece of road, which appears so very crucial for that fleeting moment while you’re stuck in unruly rush hour traffic.

This every day, everyman (and woman) duel isn’t because we simply can’t get along with our fellow citizens, it’s because our roads (and the infrastructure in general) is woefully inadequate to meet the growing needs of the people of this country. And what that stems from is a complete lack of planning, vision, foresight, and implementation – courtesy of the ‘due process’ that our government still wishes us to believe in. Well, we simply don’t believe anymore – and perhaps ‘rush hour’ anarchy is our only resort.

Let’s also remind our government, and their co-conspirators, that the message being sent out by the people of this country – channelled through Anna Hazare – isn’t only for the likes of Kalmadi and Raja, with their overflowing offshore bank accounts, but it’s also directed to every government servant, bureaucrat, and dishonest traffic cop out there.