Love corruption... Because ???
Posted by Vinod Basi
A few days back, me and one of my friend were booked for an expired emission certificate(which we didn't notice) at a most happening corner street in Bangalore. The police constable who stopped us was not an 'environmentalist' but rather an incessant pocket filler...
He initially quoted a few rules which we didn't pay attention (rather we were busy counting money in our pockets) and finally charged us 300bucks. We were shocked, because the bike which he supposedly rode would not even pass a Fitness Certificate(FC) test... After begging and complaining on the current state of affairs(of course in Karnataka), he let us go with 50bucks fine to his pocket(a good bargain)...
I was profoundly happy with the way we bargained 250bucks less, but my friend was disgusted with the corruption we entertained. After a deep thought, I was actually happy to have been living in this country.
Now we can contemplate on the policemen and their corrupted pockets, but honestly if they weren't corrupted lot, we would have had high time paying fines and visiting courtroom.
The kind of system this country's politicians, bureaucrats have designed gives us ample loopholes to get through scathe free...
From the Bofors scam to Military land acquisition scam,
From Fodder scam to CWG scam they have shown us How..??? Thanks to them...
It is, perhaps the only common menace to affect everyone irrespective of communities, linguistic and creed barriers we belong to. Most perfectly crafted to fit in everybody's agenda of day to day living...
But yes, Its high time that everyone realize the deep infested disease which is eating up the core values of a good governance and society...
Lest, we turn blind eyed or deaf eared or dumb mouthed at the issues concerning a corruption free India...
Jai Hind...
October 24, 2010 at 9:43 PM
I like the way you write your Blog, its so easy to relate to.. even though we raise hue and cry over corruption we in the end prefer it. we prefer to pay a few bucks rather than stand in a Que at a govt office. After a night of partying its always better to pay some corrupt cops than go spend the night in jail(you know what i mean). corruption is in fact the order of the day and as the saying if you cannot defeat them , join them. long live corruption. Jai Hind
December 12, 2010 at 9:28 PM
Next time when I am out riding in Bangalore, I should take you with me..b;cause last time when I was caught in Bangalore, I ended up paying 250 bucks for the same "offense"...one key characteristic of Indian livin is missin in me..bargainin :-)