---------------------------------------------------------------------------
**** Annual Goanetters Meet ****
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Annual Goanetters Meet - January 3, 2012 - 12:30 - 2pm
Tourist Hostel, near the Old Secretariat, Panaji (Panjim)
Planning to attend? Send an email to [email protected] with contact details
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Corruption
This word ‘corruption’ may cause fear, but not surprise in the minds of
Indians. Some say: “don’t paint all with the same brush”. Others: “don’t brush
all with the same paint”. A change in brushes may perhaps change shades, but
corruption of all shades remains nevertheless an appendage to their very way of
life. In fact, corruption is so much ensconced within the Indian fabric that,
to detach one from the other, would be like asking the ocean to stay away from
the shore.
Yes, it has come full circle, and places India only a hair’s breadth away from
being the most corrupt nation in the world. But granted its population count,
it could easily be called, regretfully though, the world’s largest corrupt
country. Add to it another dimension: ‘human rights’, wherein people claim the
freedom to vote for corrupt politicians, thereby inviting corruption upon
themselves. What results is, making India the largestdemocratically corrupt
country in the world.
The last straw in its defence, however, is that the tapestry of a
multi-cultural nation like India, is also ornamented by men and women of
unbeatable integrity, ingenuity and intelligence, both among the rulers and the
ruled. Like corruption itself, they too are held in great awe, both by their
countrymen and the world at large.
The 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi might have been riddled with corruption,
but the mind-blowing spectacle produced overnight, like the proverbial ‘Indian
wedding’ , only goes to prove to the world that, in a mystifying country like
India, corruption and correction live cheek by jowl, unless of course the much
touted ‘hunger-heroics’ by the likes of Locpal activist, Anna Hazare, or his
earlier comrade-in-arms, Baba Ramdev, succeed in eradicating one or the other.
(An extract from: "SIMPLY MY WAY" - www.bennetpaes.com
From: Marshall Mendonza <[email protected]>
To: goanet <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, 31 December 2011 9:46 AM
Subject: [Goanet] Discussion on corruption
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
**** Annual Goanetters Meet ****
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Annual Goanetters Meet - January 3, 2012 - 12:30 - 2pm
Tourist Hostel, near the Old Secretariat, Panaji (Panjim)
Planning to attend? Send an email to [email protected] with contact details
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
For a balanced discussion on the movement against corruption, please refer
to the following link.
http://www.ndtv.com/video/player/ndtv-special-ndtv-24x7/ndtv-special-2011-people-power/219868?sp
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Protect Goa's natural beauty
Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve
Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Protect Goa's natural beauty
Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve
Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
