Don't misconstrue the caption of this post. I'm not calling India, a country of drunken orgies and that the people here involve in gratifying themselves sexually. Though in fact we gave the world, the kamasutra, this post has nothing to do with it.
I'm trying to insinuate towards the more archaic meaning of the title, which is "Corruption". India would now be called a veteran, if the United Nations do make a sport out of it. Or if the Olympics committee adds this sport to their gamut, we would bag nothing less than a gold, (maybe they'll add platinum just for us) because right from a chaprasi to the government babu, everyone's a foul.
What caused this unpleasant situation? I mean, can nothing be done without a bribe or influence. It seems we are at the Mercy of this Mercenarians(if i can call them so). There's a very old maxim- "Silence is Golden", but the present breed goes by this one aphorism- "Screw silence, coz Money Talks".
All this while, i've seen corruption first-hand (well, we all have... else we aren't Indians!!!!), right from getting a simple khatha and encumbrance certificate so that we could sell our house, to my 'Rejection to represent a team, due to lack of an influence letter (or so to say, sifaarish)'. But still abetted this dread, else seriously no soul in the office will do your job. As a consumer, if you want to get something done, you'll have to shell out money. If you are not ready to pay them, be rest assured that you'll have to run more than your normal errands to get the job done in the first place. And well, ultimately end up paying more, due to sheer exasperation.
They all say that to solve a problem and extirpate it, we need to go to the roots of it, and destroy it from there. But this problem, is so deeply intertwined with the whole system of our nation, that eradicating it completely is unthinkable.
With this post, I just hope that with our generation, we all can at least try to stop indulging oneself at such malfeasance acts (grass-root level).
An earnest appeal- "Say no to corruption. Even better, if your at the receiving end of the dreaded courtesies."
I'm trying to insinuate towards the more archaic meaning of the title, which is "Corruption". India would now be called a veteran, if the United Nations do make a sport out of it. Or if the Olympics committee adds this sport to their gamut, we would bag nothing less than a gold, (maybe they'll add platinum just for us) because right from a chaprasi to the government babu, everyone's a foul.
What caused this unpleasant situation? I mean, can nothing be done without a bribe or influence. It seems we are at the Mercy of this Mercenarians(if i can call them so). There's a very old maxim- "Silence is Golden", but the present breed goes by this one aphorism- "Screw silence, coz Money Talks".
All this while, i've seen corruption first-hand (well, we all have... else we aren't Indians!!!!), right from getting a simple khatha and encumbrance certificate so that we could sell our house, to my 'Rejection to represent a team, due to lack of an influence letter (or so to say, sifaarish)'. But still abetted this dread, else seriously no soul in the office will do your job. As a consumer, if you want to get something done, you'll have to shell out money. If you are not ready to pay them, be rest assured that you'll have to run more than your normal errands to get the job done in the first place. And well, ultimately end up paying more, due to sheer exasperation.
They all say that to solve a problem and extirpate it, we need to go to the roots of it, and destroy it from there. But this problem, is so deeply intertwined with the whole system of our nation, that eradicating it completely is unthinkable.
With this post, I just hope that with our generation, we all can at least try to stop indulging oneself at such malfeasance acts (grass-root level).
An earnest appeal- "Say no to corruption. Even better, if your at the receiving end of the dreaded courtesies."
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