Yours and Mine
We are a handful and we have an audacious dream.
We agonize over the fact that India ranks 95th on honesty rankings out of 150 countries and we dream of a day when India will rank at the top. That day we will hopefully have the satisfaction of knowing that our tax monies are being spent judiciously and the poor of our country will not have to suffer the depravities they do today.
We believed that such a nation can only be built on foundations of Individual honesty and personal responsibility of each citizen of this country.
Our strategy to fulfil our dream is simple:
1. Seed honesty consciousness across India.
2. Establish 8th April as Zero Corruption Day and encourage fellow Indians across the country to celebrate this each year as a mark of their personal commitment to this idea.
3. Take up honest voting as a campaign/long term program starting with 2014 elections.
4. Undertake a study of deeply held beliefs about our country and our role as citizens and create programs/communication/conversations that can shift our deeply held beliefs in ways that is empowering and supportive of positive action.
5. Demonstrate through a reality television show alternate ways of choosing effective leaders.
6. Develop a method to audit processes for transparency and honesty by taking up one mandal for complete transformation.
To start implementing our ideas in earnestness we decided to walk from Kanyakumari (Swami Vivekananda Rock) to Raj Ghat (New Delhi). Seeding honesty consciousness and creating conversations of collective responsibility we have walked 2500 kms so far; the journey spanning four months and covering 3200 kms by foot will reach Raj Ghat on 7th April’ 2012.
As we get closer to Raj Ghat, we are acutely aware that our efforts can easily go down as an interesting effort in an ocean of experiments, if many fellow Indians do not join us in solidarity and own this dream as their own. We write to you with a request to join hands and together build a nation we could each be proud of.
Following are some of the ways in which we need help:
1. We would like to mobilize as many people as possible to walk with us to Raj Ghat when we reach Delhi.
2. We need media to support our cause by giving us coverage on news channels.
3. We would like to inspire our parliamentarians to join us for the last 2 kms to Raj Ghat and set an example for their followers and supporters that this is a dream worthy of striving for.
4. We need support with permissions for our programs on 7th and 8th April 2012.
5. We need funds to meet expenses of our journey across India, include the expenses we will incur on 7th and 8th April. We need to raise funds to the tune of Rs. 5,00,000/- to break even.
6. We need to build a team of interested volunteers to build on the gains of this walk and implement our strategies as listed earlier.
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