Understanding visible corruption………Santosh Desai
This apparent blindness to something as visible, omnipresent and disruptive as this compels us to consider the possibility that at some level, we tolerate this corruption because we need it. In a twisted way, an otherwise intricate and intractable system reveals a way in which it can be cracked. We are so relieved that our work can be done that we don’t mind paying a tout to navigate us through the labyrinthine corridors of petty power. Of course, this is exactly why the system is designed in such an opaque manner. Applications can be rejected, or worse, sat upon for the flimsiest of reasons; there is little access to supervisors, and there is a deliberate shortage of manpower so that outside every room of every junior official there is a veritable stampede that makes it impossible to get into the room. Once in, it is impossible to hold his attention for more than a couple of seconds.