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India: fighting corruption or adapting to it?
By Jiwan Kshetry
Speaking Freely is an Asia Times Online feature that allows guest writers to have their say. Please click here if you are interested in contributing.
When the communist political regime collapsed in the then-USSR more than two decades ago, the centrally planned and controlled economy saw that factor of "control" lifted suddenly.
It was as if a huge old dam had suddenly sustained a mega earth quake, with its water gushing out through the cracks even as the whole structure was in a process of ultra rapid dismantlement.
In that gush and rush of the wealth, those who happened to be attached or close to the evolving power structure had their hands full with whatever they could wish for. But soon there was little water left in the former dam and those unlucky to be away from the wealth-gusher at the time of the quake found it terribly hard to navigate in the coming days.
India: fighting corruption or adapting to it?
By Jiwan Kshetry
Speaking Freely is an Asia Times Online feature that allows guest writers to have their say. Please click here if you are interested in contributing.
When the communist political regime collapsed in the then-USSR more than two decades ago, the centrally planned and controlled economy saw that factor of "control" lifted suddenly.
It was as if a huge old dam had suddenly sustained a mega earth quake, with its water gushing out through the cracks even as the whole structure was in a process of ultra rapid dismantlement.
In that gush and rush of the wealth, those who happened to be attached or close to the evolving power structure had their hands full with whatever they could wish for. But soon there was little water left in the former dam and those unlucky to be away from the wealth-gusher at the time of the quake found it terribly hard to navigate in the coming days.
