A Vantage Point to think about CORRUPTION.

Today marks the 11^th anniversary on the attack of the heart of our constitution, THE PARLIAMENT. This one event which questioned the vulnerability and permeability of any place in INDIA. Only one word comes to our minds, CORRUPTION. A few points below which elucidates why corruption prevails in India till date. Please read and opine.

Indians are Hobbesian. (Culture of Opportunism) 


Corruption in India is a cultural facet. 

Indians seem to think nothing bizarre about corruption .It is omnipresent... 
 
Indians tolerate corrupt individuals rather than correct them. 
 
No race can be congenitally corrupt. 
But can a race be corrupted by its culture? 
 
To know why Indians are corrupt, 
look at their patterns and practices. 
 
First- 
 
Religion is transactional in India. 
Indians give God cash and anticipate an out-of-turn reward. 
Such a plea acknowledges that favours are needed for the undeserving. 
 
In the world outside the temple walls, 
such a deal is named- “bribe”. 
 
A wealthy Indian gives not cash to temples, 
but gold crowns and such baubles. 

His gifts can not feed the poor. His pay-off is for God. 
He thinks it will be wasted if it goes to a needy man. 
 
In June 2009, The Hindu published a report on the then Karnataka minister G.Janardhan Reddy gifting a crown of gold and diamonds worth Rs. 45 crore (Rs. 450 million) to Tirupati. 
 
India’s temples collect so much that 
they don't know what to do with it. 
Billions are gathering dust in temple vaults. 
 
When Europeans came to India they built schools. 
When Indians go to Europe & USA, they build temples. 
 
Indians believe that if God accepts money for his favours, then nothing is wrong in doing the same thing with the people.
This is why Indians are so easily corruptible. 
 
Indian culture adapts such transactions morally. 

There is no real stigma. An utterly corrupt politician can make a comeback, just unthinkable in the West. 
 
 
Second - 
 
Indian moral ambiguity towards corruption is visible in its history.
Indian history tells us of the capture of cities and kingdoms after guards were paid off to open the gates, and commanders paid off to surrender. 
 
This is unique to India. 
 
Indians' corrupt nature has meant limited warfare on the subcontinent. 
It is striking how little, Indians have actually fought compared to ancient Greece and modern Europe. 
 
The Turks’ battles with Nadir Shah were fiendish and fought to the finish. (1743-1746 AD) 
 
In India fighting wasn't needed, bribing was enough to vanquish armies. 
 
Any aggressor willing to spend cash could brush aside India’s kings, no matter how many tens of thousands soldiers were in their infantry. 
 
Little resistance was given by the Indians at the “Battle” of Plassey. (1757 AD)
Robert Clive paid off Mir Jafar and all of Bengal folded to an army of 3,000. 
 
There was always a financial exchange to taking Indian forts. 
Golconda was captured in 1687 after the secret back door was left open. 
 
Mughals defeated Marathas and Rajputs with nothing but bribes. 
 
The Raja of Srinagar gave up Dara Shikoh’s son Sulaiman to Aurangzeb after receiving a bribe.

Mir Sadiq, a minister under Tipu Sultan led to the downfall of Mysore in Anglo-Mysore war by selling his loyalty to British. (1798-1799 AD)
 
There are many cases where Indians participated on a large scale in betrayal due to bribery. 
 
Question is: Why Indians have a transactional culture while other 'civilized' nations don't? 

 
Third - 
 
Indians do not believe in the theory that they all can rise if each of them behaves morally, because that is not the message of their faith. 
 
Their caste system separates them. 
They don't believe that all men are equal. 
This resulted in their division and migration to other religions. 
 
Many Hindus started their own faith like Sikhism, Jainism, Buddhism and many converted to Christianity and Islam. 
 
The result is that Indians don't trust one another.
 
There are no Indians in India, there are 
Hindus, Christians, Muslims and what not. 
 
Indians forget that 400 years ago they all belonged to one faith. 
 
This division evolved an unhealthy culture. 
The inequality has resulted in a corrupt society. 
 
In India every one is thus against everyone else, except God ­and even he must be bribed.

{Finishing on a funny note..  Afzal Guru, the main convict in the parliament attack case should be hanged in the first place. Because he is a disgrace to the clan of terrorists, he did not kill even a single corrupt politician present in parliament on that day.}

DAY OF DELAY

I have started this blog on the day of historic significance, when people were engrossed in a whimsical cloud of smoke created by the news blast from the news channels concerning the sudden implementation of the decision delivered by the Honorable Supreme court of India. The capital punishment to Ajmal Kasab(no introduction required).

People swarmed the streets distributing sweets and lighting firecrackers in celebration. Concurrently, there was a debate raised whether or not to celebrate the death of a person. There were questions about human rights, civilizations and culture of India. Well, there have always been celebrations of victory of good over evil since ages. Still today we celebrate Dussehra on account of Lord Rama’s victory over evil Ravana. Diwali for killing Narakasura by Lord Krishna and so on. But in this case, celebration has no meaning when there is so much delay (4 years) in the execution of Kasab, which was supposed to be done immediately when he was captured with ample evidence. This questions the merits of legal proceedings in India. Like somebody said, “Celebrating and congratulating the government for hanging Kasab is like congratulating China for eating noodles”. We should rather be inglorious that it took us 4 long years. At least now, let those lost lives get some peace.