Individuals with moral courage are game changers.

Speaking at ET Awards 2013 our most revered Finance Minister said," Reforms require game changers. Game Changers are not individual men or individual women. Game changers are ideas. Game changers are institutions." Oh dear. Is he saying that Gandhi was not a game changer? Ideas do not grow on trees but come from individuals who are original thinkers and are not afraid of criticism. It is the Congress party which has destroyed the economy by playing the same old game of bribing the " vote bank " with taxpayer money and destroying institutions such as the CBI by using it to harass opponents while deliberately messing up cases against friends. Game changers are not always for the good however, as was exemplified at Nelson Mandela's funeral. There was Robert Mugabe who has murdered thousands to stay in power, destroyed the Zimbabwean economy and is determined to hang on to power even at the age of 89 years. There was Tony Blair skulking in the background. A war criminal who was a shameless poodle to George Bush and who apparently had " multiple encounters " with Wendi Deng precipitating her divorce from Rupert Murdoch. The present President of South Africa, Jacob Zuma is definitely not a game changer. Accused of corruption and rape, married 6 times with 20 children, some of whom are from affairs with other women, and spending $20 million of public money to extend his private residence to house his enormous family. We know and loath his type in India. He was booed every time his picture appeared on screens. Obama and David Cameron are no game changers either. They could not resist squashing Denmark's Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt, who seems quite a babe, to take a selfie. Cheap thrills. Mandela was definitely a game changer. Imprisoned for 27 years on Robben Island by the apartheid regime he brought about a peaceful transition to black rule without bloodshed. In the movie about him he is played by Morgan Freeman. When told to change the symbol of white supremacy, the Springboks rugby team he says," That is selfish. It does not serve the nation." About whites he says," We have to surprise them with restraint and generosity." It took great courage to tell the truth to people who had been brutally suppressed for a century. Sadly, our lot are puny crooks and liars.