India is not the only country to suffer with corruption; there is corruption everywhere in the world, but what I can’t digest the fact that corruption has become a normal part of life in India. Corruption is perceived as “just the way things are in the country”
All I wish is that there shouldn’t be any corruption in the basic human needs at least. Can every citizen of India get sufficient food, water, unpolluted air, clothing and shelter? Safe drinking water and quality air is merely not imaginable even for the people who pay highest tax too.
The most simple daily-routine administrative tasks cannot be performed without a bribe to the civil servant in charge of the paperwork. Got your stuff stolen? Had a car accident? Need to register your name for a permit, a loan, a government certificate or subsidy? You can’t escape from the bribe money.
India not only has 7 national parties, but also over 50 State political parties and hundreds and hundreds of local ones that all compete to represent as many ethnic groups as possible. So in theory, do you think it sounds like a good thing? No!
But here it implies a huge political marketplace where citizens exchange their votes for favors, to themselves or to their group. Now that may sound like what a democracy does, but the kind of favors they ask for are more of the administrative sort.
This makes corruption in India a perfectly normal mechanism to the functioning of the democratic life. It’s just another wheel of bureaucracy. “Not cool”, right?
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