Abhijit Naskar's Blog - Posts Tagged "public-service"

Bow not, my brave officer of the law, before the soul-crunching pressure of corruption – light up the nuclear furnace of responsibility and justice that sleeps dormant within you and crush all corruption to ashes – only then you’ll become the very embodiment of courage, conscience and order in the human society. You are not to live for yourself, as a labor of law – you are to live in the service of humans, as the very life-force of law in the human society. You are to exist as a living, breathing incarnate of order, harmony and civilization.


Rise and act – and corruption will be afraid of you – injustice will be afraid of you – inequality will be afraid of you. And remember, you must be a friend to the people – a guide to the people – a guardian to the people – and this means, not only protecting the people against obvious anti-social activity, but more importantly it means defending the rights of the people against all forms of anti-social and corrupt behavior even if it comes from your own department or from the government officials controlling the department.



Yours is not like any other profession – upon your duty depends whether a little child in a corner of your neighborhood will sleep sound – upon your duty depends whether a woman can return home safe from work at night – upon your duty depends whether an elderly person can reach home from the bank without being mugged. You matter – your duty matters – not merely for you mark you, but for those countless civilians who rely on your individual sense of responsibility with their very life. You are to be the lion that keeps all vicious predators away when it roams the neighborhood.



You are not just a police officer, you are the caretaker of hundreds of lives. Do you feel this, my friend? Do you feel it in your bones. If you do, then simply act in the line of duty with a purifying force of conscience flowing through your veins, and justice will follow – safety will follow – order will follow. You can’t maintain the law, for you are the law – you can’t maintain order, for you are the order – so put on the uniform and be what you are supposed to be – the vanguard of society. The law and order within you will outpour into the society through your duty, once you become one with your duty. So, be one with your duty – be one with the society – be one with the people – and all will be well.



When a burning sense of duty flows through the veins of a police officer like blood, it turns the very word police into an emblem of hope – an emblem of righteousness – an emblem of integrity, dignity and morality. Be an officer my friend, an officer with the guts to do right to the right and right to the wrong. Knowing what’s wrong changes nothing, what does is our action to make things right. And remember, politics is not your business – bureaucracy is not your business – corporate interest is not your business – in this whole wide world, your interest is only one – and that is, protection of the people. Mark this my friend, a COP means Caretaker Of People – not of the selfish and authoritarian interests of politicians and bureaucrats.

Police is not a profession,
But a promise of protection.
So long as you carry the badge,
You must discard self-preservation.
The thin blue line of service,
Is not for self-serving narcissists.
When your sole concern is society,
Only then can you uphold justice.
You mustn't become manikins of politics,
Nor of bureaucratic brutality.
Your allegiance is only to the people,
Their welfare will rescue your humanity.
In the sea of selfishness be the selfless drop,
Taking care of people you become a real cop.

Crazy am I, crazy are you,
When crazy together, we live anew.
Miserable am I, miserable are you,
When miserable together, I find joy in you.
Broken am I, broken are you,
When broken together, we are each other’s glue.
Insecure am I, insecure are you,
When insecure together, we find it all untrue.
Disfunctional am I, disfunctional are you,
When disfunctional together, we function well.
Fallen am I, fallen are you,
When we fall together, we’ll rise sure as hell.
Let us go against ourselves in defying self-centricity.
You be a nut, I’ll be a nut, let’s build a nutty community.

If I were the head of state,
my first act in government will be,
to dissolve the government,
and redistribute all powers of society,
to experts in their respective fields.

Civil servants and experts run a nation anyway,
While brainless politicians take all the credit.
Time to give credit and power where they’re due,
Putting an end to the circus of representatives.

Instead of trading one incompetent fool for another,
We gotta rotate the civil servants office to office.
In a civilized democracy, civilians are the law,
Never you forget that, never let anyone forget it!

If I were the head of state, that is the end of state.
Dictatorships empower leaders, democracy empowers citizens.

Educate your children never to serve your nation;
to serve the nation makes monkey out of human,
killing on the basis of nationality and religion.

If you wanna serve your nation,
serve through science, serve through art,
serve through music, literature, industry,
but never through military.

However, if you wanna make crime your career,
with all the glorious decorations –
kill one person, it’s murder –
kill in bulk, it’s patriotism.

Soldiers are just glorified webcam models,
standing erect to serve political libido.
Be the human your flesh appears to be,
or go back to the jungle, your mind is suited so.

Science, arts, music, innovation,
that’s how you serve a nation.
There is no greater dipsomaniac
profession, than militarist infestation.