Corruption vs. Ethics
Where
there is ethics, corruption will have no
place, just like- where there is Rama , Kama cannot co-exist.
· In this regard a beautiful Malayalam
movie Pareeksha(
Examination) comes to mind. This was released in 1967 when I was in SSC
class… this movie’s ending I remember very well over the years and has also guided me in my thought process..
The
story in a nutshell…a Head Master of a school is in the midst of examining
one of the SSC papers.. this comes to the knowledge of his would be son-in-law.. and the marriage of his daughter
is around the corner….
The prospective son in law finds out the mark obtained by his cousin in the examination. He notices that the boy has failed by 9 marks….
· First he requests the prospective bride
to speak to her father to put additional marks to make the boy pass, which the
lady flatly refused .. knowing the upright nature of her father…
· Then he directly approached the future F-I-L
and asks for the favour… that the old man declines to consider… then the Hero…
gets totally annoyed and blackmails the old man that if he is not willing to oblige
he will cancel the impending marriage
with his daughter…. Then walks out angrily..
Subsequently
he repents his outbursts and goes back
to the teacher/lady love to apologise and shocked to find that the old man died in the meantime without changing the
marks … the lady also refused to marry him knowing/realising his volatile nature…
· This
is ethical standards of the highest order…what was aimed or pressed or wanted by
the future son-in-law was another form
of corruption.. corruption has many dimensions… ethics has only one face…
either one is ethical or not…
· The movie was ahead of its time… the word
CORRUPTION HAD NOT ACQUIRED THE GRAVITY THEN…. AS IT CAME TO OCCUPY AFTER
SEVENTIES IN OUR COUNTRY..
But
as a boy of 14 years, the message, the final actions struck with me and I am happy that I saw this
movie at that tender age…. All Hareecha…
वन्दे मातरम्
ॐ शान्ति
9.30 AM
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