Integrity
What India faces today is the crisis of integrity. Integrity of behavior in public life has been under a cloud, accentuated by first the way the political establishment has appropriated authority and the manner in which the bureaucracy has stamped its mark on embezzlement of funds. The bank scams of recent years are the tip of the iceberg made up of siphoning off of public money by a plethora of state and central government departments since times immemorial. As a teenager who had started seeing the funny side of misuse of power depicted in cartoons, I remember how the minister's wife would be looking forward to the opportunity for an aerial survey of flood-hit areas while the minister would be licking his lips at the aid material. The problem with we Indians is that we have always seen only the funny side of corruption and corrupt behavior which includes violating laws, rules and regulations. If our MLA or MP or a minister in our vicinity was not living in a mansion that was g...