Corruption in INDIA is not only in politics its rooted far deeper than one can fanthom..
Point is WE AS INDIANS NEED TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE FACT AND BESIDE BALME GAME DO A SELF CORRECTION.. which again will be tough for many people who find it easy to balme and be done with...
The forwarded email article goes as such....
Hobbesian.(cultureof self interest)
Corruption in India is a cultural aspect. Indians seem to think nothing peculiar about corruption .It is everywhere.
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 transaction 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. who knows if He thinks it will be wasted if it goes to a needy man.
In June 2009, The Hindu published a report of Karnataka minister G. Janardhan Reddy gifting a crown of gold and diamonds worth Rs 45 crore 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. It is beleived if you pay or offer gifts to GOD you can batter wish fulfilment with him...
When Europeans came to India they built schools. When Indians go to Europe & USA, they build temples. nothing majorly wrong with that but ever heard bulding anything for general social development irrespective of race and ethinicity...?
Indians believe that if God accepts money for his favours, then nothing is wrong in doing the same thing. This is why Indians are so easily corruptible. Indian culture accommodates such transactions morally. There is no real stigma.
An utterly corrupt Jaya Lalita can make a comeback, just unthinkable in the West.
Second -
Indian moral ambiguity towards corruption is visible in its history. Indian history tells 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. it was easy to rule indians as you cud pay off one to get the other one out of way.
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 vicious and fought to the finish.
In Indian invading history fighting wasn't needed, bribing was enough to see offarmies. Any invader willing to spend cash could brush aside India’s kings, no matter how many tens of thousands soldiers were in theirinfantry.
Little resistance was given by the Indians at the “Battle” ofPlassey. Clive paid off Mir Jaffar 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 vanquished Marathas and Rajputs with nothing but bribes. The Raja of Srinagar gave up Dara Shikoh’s son Sulaiman to Aurangzeb after receiving a bribe.
There are many cases where Indians participated on a large scale in treason due to bribery.
Question is: Why Indians have a transactional culture while other nations don't?
Third -
Indians do not believe in the theory that they all can rise if each of them behaves morally( mark my point MORALLY)... indian want their neighbour to behave morally and they themselves can do what they feel like. There is no inherant feeling of social responsibility. ( They call out other nations to be more comfortable.. but they fail to recognize the empahsis of social responsibility there)
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 Sikh, Jain, Buddha and many converted to Christianity and Islam... which is fine only if this did not lead to judging people. The result is that Indians don't trust one another .. do i need to repeat the last statement ..??
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. doing favors to ones belonging to only their sect.
In India every one is thus against everyone else, except God and even he must be bribed... :)
_ ends the article..
Point is.. corrpution is not one person.. its in us .. we as people have become the personification of it.. if we truely and geniunly want it gone.. lets take a look within.. and bring a revolution that calls for this self realization.. shouting blackmailing and balming others is easy .. self check is where the true revolution lies..
There will be plp who will disagree with this and start giving examples of how they suffer not once will they mention how much they are part of they whole system....
.. and i dont blame them .. due to a simple reason.. self check is the toughest realization and not all can do it.. !!!
Hoping this will awaken atleast one sleeping and blindly shouting soul...
-- havisha
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