The cancer of graft and corruption-a deep rooted menace has been perpetually infecting the private as well as public life India. Despite all sermons by saints and sages, and the preventive laws by the Government, to eliminate this evil, it now taking the nomenclature of a necessary evil. It has cankered in to the very vitals of Indian society, distorted all values and made mincemeat of truth, virtue and morality.
It has grown to so gigantic proportions that there is hardly any sphere of social, political, economic, and even religious activity that is free from dismal touch of graft, deception, trickery, treachery and corruption of some kind. The vermin of corruption has become so venomous that now it defies all measure of human morality and punitive precincts of law. Like the air we breathe, corruption has become all perva-sive and entered every aspect of life to such an extent that it is now regarded as fact of life and an evil we have to live with.
No doubt, an evil never conquers but it often does triumph. And being triumphant; through corruption over various obstructions in our political, social and economic ways of life, we are making this evil more triumphant-strengthening its fangs to the length and vigour that one day it may sting the nation to decay and death.
Well, it will be wholly incorrect to argue that corruption is an offspring of a few past generation. A close study of history shows that this odious and obnoxious disease, coupled with deception, dishonesty and conspiracy has been pesting quite onerously our ancestors too. Kautilya (Chanakya) the Machiavelli of India has mentioned in his famous work 'Artha Shashtra' (the manual of Government of Chandra Gupta Maura) forty types of ways of embezzling government property.
Evidently, had the corrupt characters been extinct in those days, that great author of proverbial 'Niti' would not have dealt on that subject at such length. Corruption and graft have been very much in vogue in India during the regin of the Mughals. Officers of East India company made graft a point of fashion in their administration.
During the British rule the 'Gora Sahibs' found bribing a successful policy of astute diplomacy to lure towards them the courtiers and 'Diwanjis' of the India king and Kiledars. The Indian Bigwigs also exhibited their ardent adroitness in offering gifts and bribes to curry favour of the super-bosses and white 'Sahibs'
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It has grown to so gigantic proportions that there is hardly any sphere of social, political, economic, and even religious activity that is free from dismal touch of graft, deception, trickery, treachery and corruption of some kind. The vermin of corruption has become so venomous that now it defies all measure of human morality and punitive precincts of law. Like the air we breathe, corruption has become all perva-sive and entered every aspect of life to such an extent that it is now regarded as fact of life and an evil we have to live with.
No doubt, an evil never conquers but it often does triumph. And being triumphant; through corruption over various obstructions in our political, social and economic ways of life, we are making this evil more triumphant-strengthening its fangs to the length and vigour that one day it may sting the nation to decay and death.
Well, it will be wholly incorrect to argue that corruption is an offspring of a few past generation. A close study of history shows that this odious and obnoxious disease, coupled with deception, dishonesty and conspiracy has been pesting quite onerously our ancestors too. Kautilya (Chanakya) the Machiavelli of India has mentioned in his famous work 'Artha Shashtra' (the manual of Government of Chandra Gupta Maura) forty types of ways of embezzling government property.
Evidently, had the corrupt characters been extinct in those days, that great author of proverbial 'Niti' would not have dealt on that subject at such length. Corruption and graft have been very much in vogue in India during the regin of the Mughals. Officers of East India company made graft a point of fashion in their administration.
During the British rule the 'Gora Sahibs' found bribing a successful policy of astute diplomacy to lure towards them the courtiers and 'Diwanjis' of the India king and Kiledars. The Indian Bigwigs also exhibited their ardent adroitness in offering gifts and bribes to curry favour of the super-bosses and white 'Sahibs'
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