06-15-2004, 11:46 AM
this is a very selective recount of history. What about the Mundhra case, the Jeep scandal, the LIC scandal, the TTK scandal and umpteen others which you conveniently forgot to mention. The rot started as soon as the republic was born and Chacha Nehru started associating with sycophants (even the sycophants were men of substance in those days) and eliminating everybody else who disagreed with him (like shyama prasad mukherjee ).
Spare me this non-sequitor about corruption starting later. Maybe some of you were not even born then or if born were still in diapers, but ignorance is certainly not bliss when it ignores the events of history. of course the scale of the corruption has increased through the decades, but so has the GDP and the federal budget. There is no question in my mind that the culture of corruption started flourishinng on day one because chacha Nehru turned a blind eye towards it and so did his daughter with even greater vehemence. For a man who never earned a penny in his entire life until independence, his progeny have done surprisingly well and are now well settled for generations to come.
Spare me this non-sequitor about corruption starting later. Maybe some of you were not even born then or if born were still in diapers, but ignorance is certainly not bliss when it ignores the events of history. of course the scale of the corruption has increased through the decades, but so has the GDP and the federal budget. There is no question in my mind that the culture of corruption started flourishinng on day one because chacha Nehru turned a blind eye towards it and so did his daughter with even greater vehemence. For a man who never earned a penny in his entire life until independence, his progeny have done surprisingly well and are now well settled for generations to come.