Embrace Your Own Power to Fight Corruption

Stop Blaming and Start Building Awareness!! “Ask Questions”

• It’s not about me, it’s not about you. It’s about the place we stay in the society we live in and the system we have!!

• Often wonder when a mosquito bites me why do I think repellent, why a coil or Hit, why don’t have the courage to question my municipality?

• Why do buy water in a bottle? Why do I purify water at home? Why don’t Task the government to get pure drinking water in my tap?

• Why do I buy an inverter or dream of a generator? Why don’t I ask the government and electricity board to get a full-time current in my wires?

• Why should I pay toll tax on every single black, good-looking road? Why every basic road is not my right?

• Why don’t we ask the government to properly regulate the banking system when we get news of PMC-bank scams with customers demanding their deposited money back?

• It’s time to come out, stand up…move. Sitting in drawing rooms or parks or discussing a mug of beer will not solve anything!

• Please, this country does not need thinkers anymore, enough of them…what you need is an action, an initiative!

• The world suffers a lot, Not because of the action of bad people but because of the silence of the good people!

• Lionel Suggs, Author of Heir to the Stars said, “Questions are the answers; to get the right answer, ask the right question“. Asking the right question from the right person is the key to making them accountable to deliver what he or she is expected to.

• So, don’t wait for others’ actions… Embrace your own power to fight corruption!

The author, Suraj Parkash Manchanda is a 68-year-old retired accomplished banker and a devoted social activist. Post his voluntary retirement from State Bank in 2007, he dedicated his life to a social cause which includes empowering his fellow senior citizens by educating them to be digitally literate and motivating them to use Consumer Protection Act and RTI Act as a tool to fight against the corruption in India. He has authored a book titled, ‘Embrace Your Own Power to Fight Corruption’, which was launched in World Book Fair, 2020. Presently, he is the Vice-President of the ‘Elderly People Forum’ with over 800 members working for the welfare and empowerment of senior citizens in North Delhi.