"My father paid bribe for my birth certificate .I repaid the dues by bribing to get his death certificate. Is this the Independence that our forefathers sacrificed their everything for?", this is the statement I just encountered in the readers' section of an Indian newspaper.
Corruption is not there only in the government, or in the bureaucracy but its there in the blood and that blood flows in the veins of each & every Indian. There are so many occasions when we ourselves not a victim of corruption but a part of corruption. Some of them are:
- Organizing an event or party but paying the bills without any taxes
- Not getting Income Tax Refund, paid the bribe to IT officer to expedite the process
- Could not buy Train ticket because of Crowd on the counter, so paid the money to Ticket collector just to save the fines
- Planning to get the Passport, paid the bribe for police verification, to speed up the process
and many more...
So in short, corruption is not something which we can blame on others, it is in our culture, in our roots and in our veins.
