While one is aware that corruption was there in the past too, its magnitude today is so large that corruption is comparable with the tentacles of an octopus. The only suggestion that comes to mind to remove corruption is to remove corrupt and unscrupulous people, a remedy that was prescribed in Kautilya’s Arthashastra (3rd Century B.C.). He had listed certain characteristics and bad traits of human beings like (a) lack of excellence and perfection in work, (b) absence from work, (c) poor management team or poor decision-makers at the helm, (d) addiction to five Ws, and (e) affliction by causing pains to others, that lead to mismanagement by human beings.
If these criteria can be implemented, there will be automatic improvement in the quality of the leadership and the workforce. Such improvement will change the current scenario that can be described as “A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort, or enslaves him, or attempts to limit the freedom of his mind, or compels him to act against his own rational judgement a society that sets up a conflict between its edicts and the requirements of mans nature is not strictly speaking, a society, but a mob held together by institutional gang rule.
Prabir K. Biswas