Dear Indian freedom fighters! It is Sunday night and maybe I should have spent the day and the night at Freedom Park celebrating victory of the Indian people on this historic day together with Indian friends and colleagues. I have some! Seeing Anna breaking his fast this very morning, taking the cup of coconut juice and honey from this small Muslim girl really moved my heart. I was boiling inside. Maybe I should have been there at Freedom Park in Bangalore, cutting my way through the crowd to the central stage, with my guitar, offering to sing some Dylan songs like “The times they are a-changing” or “Blowing in the wind.” I know I can do it. They should have fit in nicely. Maybe the media should have loved it also. I would have, as the limelight junkie I am. But I did not do it.
This fight against corruption is not my fight, although I sense a lot of belonging to that fight, the fighters and the course. I am from a small country, Sweden in northern Europe, I feel as an outsider in India in one way and also the things you are fighting for. Not as you have not welcomed me. I have never felt so welcomed anywhere. Not as I do not agree or support the fight for a new India. But in one way this fight is yours and yours only. I can support you from the side only.
Maybe the Nobel Peace Prize for Team Anna.

Northern Europe, no names, has plundered India during centuries in the past. I as a person will not pick up any of the guilt from that plundering. But in another way we, the westerners, are all guilty as we have been gaining from the looting of your country. And have also implanted structures you are still suffering from. Now we are back trying to have your support in building crucial systems for our wealth with your help, linking us together in a new global way.
Middleclass in India, in a broad definition, has entered the scene now. Surprising the political elite and some others in your Indian society by doing a sudden entry, but now you are there and now there is a huge load on your shoulder only.
Politicians have not been able to drag this corruption question forward, or if the will is lacking, for 42 years. Corruption has grown into a major cancer in India. Now, the politicians are bulldozed by the “India against corruption” movement and Anna Hazare to take a stand.
Finally they did and that feels so, so sweet. Sure they all will brag about how they stood in the frontline, but never mind. Political class will stay in that position as long as they feel the pressure from you, the hardworking, descent middleclass, otherwise they will slip out of the box, delivering nothing. Don’t let them spit on you anymore. You are the future. I was not at Freedom Park tonight, although I have a big belonging there in my mind. Where you there?