Corruption in India
Corruption like everything else in India starts from home. It’s a vicious circle. When Corruption is termed as adjective it means “utterly broken”. Anything that is below all standard norms of morality in a country is called or defined as corruption. Corruption is something which doesn’t build overnight. It’s a continuous process that exists in a society for years and as it grows it seeps into the very blood stream of the system. The media, the public, the variety of forums for discussions and debates are all neck deep buried in highlighting the rampant corruption in every sphere. Corruption has reached such high levels of indignity today that the average Indian has reached the highest level of disgust and disappointment at the way things are moving in this country. Corruption has trapped Indian politics, Indian media and Indian judiciary. Every Indian from a common man to the highest of officials are trapped into it and hence its a vicious circle. To break it, every single person from the heart of the country has to act against himself. The present apathy shows how far the degradation of our values has reached and how low the system has dipped. Today Indian seems to at the threshold of a new millennium with the erstwhile Indian National Congress and many other parties without a single leader of stature. From politicians to bureaucrats, to a common man, corruption has become our way of life and to uproot it is a Herculean task. Indian has seemed to lost the motherhood, the honesty and the integrity which prevailed in the Indian societies in the darkness of greed for money and hunger for better opportunities. As India grew economically and saw economic development with International status, an average Indian kept losing his value.
The economy of India was under socialist-inspired policies for an entire generation from the 1950s until the 1980s. The economy was subject to extensive regulation, protectionism, and public ownership, leading to pervasive corruption and slow growth.[4
Now-a-days corruption can be seen everywhere. It is like cancer in public life, which has not become so rampant and perpetuated overnight, but in course of time. A country where leaders like Mahatma Gandhi, Sardar Patel, Lai Bahadur Shastri and Kamraj...