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LAST night I woke up in the middle of my sleep with a horrible dream and a terrible scream. My wife also got frightened and said, "What happened?" "I was being unceremoniously stripped of a medal given to me for public service," I said wiping cold sweat from my forehead and sipping some water. She snatched the glass from my hand, gulped down the remaining water and rebuked me; "You haven’t got any medal for any service from anywhere. Go back to sleep." I thanked God that I hadn’t got any medal.
The next question is how to strip off those awards; either a peon from the Governor House should come and declare in a derogatory voice, "Sahib ne medal vapis mangvaya hai. Nikalo jaldi." The other option could be that the awardees should be invited to the President’s House. After reading out a recitation of shame in his name, the medal should be snatched disgracefully in front of the media.
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Recently
a few medal awardees have been in the news for their misdemeanours.
The people have been calling out to take their medals back. `A0Some
people criticise and wonder how can a shady person lay hands on such
high honours? They don’t understand that this is the beauty of our
system, which covers up the taint of their characters. In fact, for
the corrupt police force to look more meritorious in the eyes of
public, we should institute more awards and medals, may be for a
limited period of time. Such fake awards can be taken back before
their retirement.