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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2009
A disturbing encounter
Democracy is at stake when one can bribe for everything and can get away with anything
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There are two issues at stake here, firstly the propensity of the individual to engage in crimes even without a clear stereotypical trigger for starting a life of crime and then have the temerity to blame system for it. It is this kind of rif raff and the likes of the progeny of the rich and influential who are cause of the systematic illness of corruption in India. Inspite of all the tales of corruption I have been through Indian customs more than 20 times in the last decade and not once did any one ask me for money for any LEGITIMATELY allowed stuff and even some beyond it as long it was reasonable. It is only when that Taxi driver tries to smuggle in gold biscuits from Dubai or try to find a under age girl in Hyderabad to marry an old man from the Gulf does he have to bend the rules and find a willing accomplice in the spread of the cancer of corruption. It takes two hands to clap. If the individual does not have character to do the right thing for its sake and takes a easy route of crime for money and power and blames it on Mujboori filmi-style to rationalize it I know the class of this individual. It is sad that he needs to live and work in country with drastic laws for ex-criminals like him for he has no self worth. The author can refer to the news items referring to real estate scandals in Dubai recently and the arrest of some individuals showing that corruption exists even in Dubai.
Subbarao
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