Corruption, A multi-dimentional view

[this  post was  drafted in the height of anti-corruption movement lead by Anna Hajare , now posting un edited , with an intention to expand as time permits ]




Why someone  becomes corrupt?


A human view

1) A few of them does corruption because their peers do it and make good money. why'd they loose a chance ?

To stop : moral values in schools, harping of these values th popular medium

2)Other few indulge in corruption forcibly due to pressure from masters in the job

To Stop: clarity of task, transparency in execution in  governance

3) There are some who are forced to do corruption because of threat  made to their and relatives  life

To Stop : independent control of criminal elements, a force to guard d people open to threat.

4)Corruption is an easy medium of making money ,call of luxury demands more money and corruption is a quicker approach

to stop : same as 1

Why people pay bribe

1) because they have more money and less time, our administrative mechanism is slow.

Solution : increase efficiency th e governance and define SLA for each public service

2) to cover a wrong done

Solution: efficient criminal justice system

3) to get some favour from someone in power

From an administrative perspective

Why corruption happens in administration ?

1) masters ask for it
2) lot of work and less resource, hence existing resource uses his position to advantage
3) unclear rules
4) opaque administration

Political perspective

1) they have to win election and it is assumed that it need money
2)no sure way of income, most have it as profession.
3) money is perceived source of power that elect them
4) to save their influence and to create more influence

Economics

1) given inequalities of income, people tend to earn quick bucks
2) high money transactions involves people in power, hence increases their vulnerability to be exposed to corrupt

Social reasons
1) peer pressure to achieve a social status
2) materialist consumerisation
3) degraded values and corrupt conscience
4) mental pressure

Criminal reasons

1) Threat to life, property
2) Blackmail
3) Threat to family and extended family

People who bribe ?

Contractors, Black market operators, Criminals, common people needing to get their job done from govt establishment.

People who can take bribe ?

People in power to allocate resource.

Observations

Corrupt practices in private establishment are un reported 

Feeling the anger

Feeling angry upon myself . There are promises pending , time is too fast to catch . Still this mind is acting lazy . Searching something fulfilling . The newspapers don't inspire any more .hollow stories there . The mind starts getting fidgety with the books ..

Some thing need to change ? My approach.. Thinking of diving deep into a single subject ...and relate that depth to the associated streams of knowledge...

The path of "Sadhana" and the interruptions

Self control is where i'm focussing now . The habits take control and I feel desperate to come out of it . To align my activities to the set goals .. day in and day out ... the fight continues .

This week I'm observing a “Sadhana Saptah” The week of penance . The second day is in progress . It is a self effected approach to inculcate discipline to the body and mind . In this age when touching thirty, this things seem a requierment. Success and falures are playing hide and seek there too.
I dream a lot .find way to achieve them , force my self to travel that path. Take time to review that and correct the course if necessery . Hope all the dreams come true .. even other wise the dreams would have done their job of inspiring ...

Now I interacted with a tea vendor making his livelihood by supplying tea to offices . He was not well , down with ulser in stomach , what happens to his family ? He's back with a new hope to proceed . Why Ulser , parents at home warn us to take food on time to avoid that .Why that man have ulser ? He doesn't take Food on time? Why ? He can't afford or he cuts his meal for his family ?

I sit in an air conditioned cabin with my computer , with creating projects intended to help business become intelligent .Can my IT help the person above ?

These questions and more !! a day is the same 24 hours for every one ! When shall I get answers to all these ? Nevertheless i'll keep trying ...

The Stirrings

I felt like writing a poem today . The panaromic view of life in external and internal in the last few days has been quite resourceful for the mind .

The scattered dots that linked to take a shape are below

Glimpses of success in work and the lax will thereafter,Hide and seek of achievements with deadlines in work and self-discipline in personal life,A view of less previlaged ones, a group of blind with a music band , trying to live a descent life,A decision of buying an expensive magazine,"the Fortune" with question of proper usage of money in the background,An engrossed mind reading the magazine in the bus and its sudden view, (when i raised my head) ; of shades of black tar of road,green lawn in beautified marina beach,brown strech of sand . the dotted groups of peole on it ,immediate sea blue following and blue sky in the distant horizon in a sunny afternoon leading to dusk ,A begger sitting in the middle of an ATM and a milk parlour and watching the crowd in both direction,The difficulty of projecting the money value of technology to the un-initiated , the feel of "too many things to do in too little time" and "the will to do it",The news of scientists preparing a particle acclerator named LHC at an european university CERN to proove the existance God particle and the thoughts of quantum mechanics behaving differently from classical mechanics and all of them being governed by probably undiscovered single all pervasive equation of God .

The dots will grow more ...

Triangle of success

so many distractions
to keep the hope afloat ,
the will struggles
you do come in repeats
and thoughts prolong far...
i stretch it farer
and awake .

the dawn emerges from dusk
invisible within cubicles
time has its flow
The will runs to keep pace..

the eye steps in with it
the body follows
muscles in it remind the vulnerability
but the will proceeds to a new dawn ..

synchrony of time and will ;
"the love ,in its anticipation"
is the triangle of success

The path under construction

Ma , the call today was poignant ,The journey seems too tough .The mind is unhelpful . It's fighting hard and where my strengths will come from ?

This needs a guiding hand (which i expect from GOD and living gods) .

Expectations are becoming great enemies . this piece is also a witness .


The days of union are distanced afar again .The uncertainity of careeer moves and moves of TIME has distanced it.the soulmate is assigned but there's distance ,The SMSes are misleading .

Technology can't Translate the whole feelings .


Tomoro's a brighter day and the next minute is a hopeful one ...

Thats for now ... God

...see you in your heights tomoro ..
The higher one from today

Pain of the Idle moments

In those times where the life knows its responsibilities and have ample time with it but don't wish to work in that direction where does the fault lie ..?

Siddharth says it is in our personality styles ...

But why not get the nector from every work that is assigned ,why the pull of the initial enthuciasm doesn't linger on ...


Probably it is all in the mind . the fight between the mind and the conscience.

All powerful things are good as slaves but extremely bad as Masters ie Money,Mind ...

Will power is of god .God surrendering everything that i say is mine i move.have a prayer for you .Please don't stop giving happiness but ensure that amidst that i don't lose sight of your scerene divinity ....


All in thy Name ..

Tears in your name

Never knew I'm such controller of my thoughts and the body.The other day tears welled in abundance when i signed something favourite but they vanished as i raised my head to speak to someone nearby .so suddenly . surprised myself there. good experience. no one got a glimpse......Why .. Let them be with me ,and surrendered to thy mighty power .....


They're the best friends preserved for the loneliest of the moments ,neednot be spent in expression of mundane experience ..

Quoting a touchy poem for Tennyson

"Tears, idle tears,
I know not what they mean,
Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart,
and gather to the eyes,
In looking on the happy Autumn-fields,
And thinking of the days that are no more. "

Wait for thou's not endless....

Scattered thoughts

Life's songs remain unrecorded .


the quest for thou remains amiss
in the forest of humanely desires.

The ray of light from thou distant candle
let the thoughts alive...the deviations are verymany.. shall I last..

The tempest is furious ,of this worldly thoughts.
The frequency is fearsome ,of the revisits of Lonelieness

Tomoro is a new hope, the present one will go