Well that's all I feel I can do.
Around 8000 farmers committed suicide in 2015 in India. A reason for that was individual debt ranging from $5 (INR 300) to $8,000 (INR 5,00,000).
A common man with more than $4,000 (INR 2,50,000) in his bank account is grilled rigorously by the income tax department.
A single well-networked individual defrauded the state banking system of an alleged $1.8 billion (don't even want to convert that to INR).
I really am clueless as to how we define scale, ethics or accountability in India anymore. Frankly, the way our country values life and money leaves a deep aftertaste of disgust. Do taxpayers in India know what is it exactly that they fund?
We have become a hapless country with regards to corruption/cronyism/misconduct/whatever you want to call it. I think this corruption is ingrained - growing up we have all learnt to pay 'white bribes' to avoid traffic tickets, to speed up the processing of an official document, to avoid having to wait in the queue at a government office, etc.
Is it okay to say that in our country nothing works without a bribe, so our actions are justified? When does a small or 'harmless' bribe become toxic? Is a bribe ever small? Can we all safely hashtag #IBribeToo ?
I feel extremely angry today.
Around 8000 farmers committed suicide in 2015 in India. A reason for that was individual debt ranging from $5 (INR 300) to $8,000 (INR 5,00,000).
A common man with more than $4,000 (INR 2,50,000) in his bank account is grilled rigorously by the income tax department.
A single well-networked individual defrauded the state banking system of an alleged $1.8 billion (don't even want to convert that to INR).
I really am clueless as to how we define scale, ethics or accountability in India anymore. Frankly, the way our country values life and money leaves a deep aftertaste of disgust. Do taxpayers in India know what is it exactly that they fund?
We have become a hapless country with regards to corruption/cronyism/misconduct/whatever you want to call it. I think this corruption is ingrained - growing up we have all learnt to pay 'white bribes' to avoid traffic tickets, to speed up the processing of an official document, to avoid having to wait in the queue at a government office, etc.
Is it okay to say that in our country nothing works without a bribe, so our actions are justified? When does a small or 'harmless' bribe become toxic? Is a bribe ever small? Can we all safely hashtag #IBribeToo ?
I feel extremely angry today.