The Bureaucracy Clamps Down on Citizen’s Rights
This article was first published in the print edition of Manushi Journal. (Issue-108, Sep-Oct 1998)
Modern India has become synonymous with corruption, mismanagement and inefficiency. This despite the fact that the number of individually honest, decent and hard-working people in our society is far higher than that of crooks, who are actually a minority. Unfortunately, the crooks have come to dominate our society as they control the levers of power. This is because our government institutions are designed to breed crime and corruption. The rules of the game are inherently foul in so far as they reduce the average citizen to the status of a colonial subject who is mistrusted, treated like a potential criminal and made to appear as a supplicant before those who sit in positions of power..