junkie bro: ok, let's do away with the netas we had. i agree. we need better ones, i agree. but why do we want to keep thinking of ourselves as slaves of some leader or the other to help us do this, help us do that. why don't we do somehting ourselves. why don't you become a leader in your own right and do something. we will all help. now if you say you don't want to do it, then i guess you have no right to complain either. and what did my protests do? not much. really. and i did not say that to show-off. i was just answering an earlier question. but yes, it did bring about a few people together to share their grief. it did bring about a few people to share their hope for the future. and it did bring a solidarity between a small group of people. on the grand scale of things, what does that matter? nothing. but if we can have thousands and thousands of those nothings, we can come up with something. yes we can. don't you think? and bro, talking about corruption. don't tell me there was no corruption in panchayat. if there was any less corruption in panchayat (and i doubt that), that was simply because we had less population, our per capita income was low etc. there has always been corruption in our society, in fact any society. that is a cheap excuse to give up our freedom. there have always been bullies like maoists, that too is a cheap excure to give up our freedom.