Corruption….

Pronunciation:/kəˈrʌpʃ(ə)n/
[Mass noun]
• dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power , typically involving
• The action or effect of making someone or something morally depraved.

This is how the Oxford dictionary defines corruption. But what does corruption mean for us today? ‘Bribing’ we would easily respond! Bribing is the recurrent form of corruption we see.
Bribing.. There used to be time when people paid bribe to do something dishonest, unlawful and wrong but today we Indians have progressed to the situation when we pay bribe to get right things done in right time. And this is the whole catastrophe of my country.
Pervasive corruption has riddled through almost every aspect of public services in India. Despite making major strides in overall economy due to the globalization in the recent years, a large fraction of India's population has continued to live in an impoverished condition while a small number of tricky Indians have accumulated enormous amount of black money in foreign banks.
The ‘2G-spectrum’, ‘Satyam’, ‘Harshad Mehta scam’, ’Telagi scam’ - the list of recent scandals and corruptions involving enormous national currency is virtually endless in India. All these scams have big names enweaved in them so even gathering confirmations becomes almost impossible. Let the question of punishing them be alone…
Corruption was a tendency in interest oriented class in the bureaucratic and political system some years back. With the growing greed of people, lack of united outcry of people, citizens’ tolerance about it had led us to a society where ‘bribing’ is just like any other folkways… Now the society has a self understanding of offering chai pani to the official who is helping by signing or forwarding your minor application or doing a job for which s/he is appointed and paid for. This general understanding in public is growing like cancer in my country and dumb down the senses, morality and honesty.
This kind of mutual understanding between corrupts and non-corrupt spectators in society has nurtured corruption.
Why go far?
Let’s see in the world around us. The ‘small’ cheatings are no less than these big scams if judged on honesty and morality. Those who can easily allow the passage for and be part of this grubby flow are nothing but morally bankrupts!!
I do not possess any remedial models for these trends in society, but every time I ponder over this problem one solution repeatedly strikes me i.e. education. However irrelevant it appears but I strongly feel that improvisations in education system, especially in primary education system will surely help for betterment. Strong values of honesty, national integrity must be inculcated in children at the tender age. With the due consideration of the fact that human beings learn from whole society and the anti social values can not be totally avoided from children but effort can be done to strengthen them for judging.. judging between right and wrong.
Considering our country in which a person has multiple identities, it’s difficult to raise the value of national identity as Indian among people. But at least capacity to do moral judgment can be cultivated. So there would be no one ‘morally bankrupt’!

Harshada Vinaya