Dear Joe, I wish to comment on your views that Democracy has given rise to corruption among politicians and others down the line. It is true that such ills exist not only in Goa but also in other parts of India. Delhi is the worst of the lot.My son who is a graduate commercial pilot in the USA sufferred so much humiliation and impropriety at the hands of small time clerks and peons each asking for money even to do the least work of getting a file from one desk to the next. On one occassion a clerk threw my sons US Pilots license across his desk resulting in it falling to the floor, he was asked to pick it up. Which my son did. So much insolence from such low level staff. My son was shocked at the attitudes that prevailed. India and Indians at large cannot bring themselves upto the West, though a small minority may have acquired a lifestyle and demeanor appropriate to a western culture, but these people are a small minority and will not make any difference to the Indian society at large. We need a dramatic change in mindset across the entire population that bribery and corruption is not acceptable and will not be given to get things done. But who will enforce discipline?? WE have an incorrigible situation which needs urgent correction. But when the police themselves are corrupt to whom can the public turn to in such cases.?? Godfrey Rasquinha UAE
----- Original Message ---- From: Joe Lobo <[email protected]> To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 1:20:00 PM Subject: Re: [Goanet] Is it not better to be slave! Dear Mr. Barve, Sameer Kelekar seemed to miss the point that I was making...........that in about 48 years of joining the Indian Union many of our state civil servants, minor bureaucrats, mamlatdars, panchayat officials and some politicians seem to have learnt well from our Delhi masters the practice of extorting bribes with a standard operating attitude of " Bribe me handsomely or I shall stymie your efforts to access services to which you are entitled and frustrate your getting anywhere whether it is a driving licence, attestation of a birth certificate or other documents leading to establishing your title to ancestral/ family property. " W.r.t. to Sammeer`s comment that democracy is not meant for the faint of heart I detcect a laissez-faire attitude of accepting bribery and corruption as the cost of democracy. Why is it that in western countries applicants for services like driving licences do not have to grease a gov. clerk`s palm to proceed with an application and it should be considered acceptable in Goa ? SHRIKANT BARVE wrote: > If you want it easy, it is better to be a slave. Sameer Kelekar > http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2009-May/177825.html > > Are we inclined to be slave? or Is it better to be slave with no expectations > except MOKSHA! > > Shrikant Vinayak Barve > > > > Cricket on your mind? Visit the ultimate cricket website. Enter >http://beta.cricket.yahoo.com > > >
