All Blog Posts Tagged 'Corruption' (4)

India Rejuvenation Initiative (IRI) is a nation-level organization devoted to probity in public life. I am proud to be associated with the organization for quite some in my humble way. To spread the wings of the organization, all across the country local meetings are being arranged under guidance of Mr Arunesh of IRI who will be participating in the meetings with local activists interested in IRI’s anti-corruption movement.…

The issue of corruption has emerged on the national scene in a strident manner in recent years. On account of the involvement of high levels of government, an unholy network of actors and huge sums of money in a single corruption incident, it has no doubt assumed giant proportions. So much so that all other problems facing the nation like widespread and widening poverty of the masses, deepening chasm between the rich and the poor, growing social unrest and insurgency, and increasing threats…

It turns out that "Tees Janvari", January 30th -  the day Mahatma Gandhi knowingly embraced death for his highest principle, Ahimsa (non-violence) - does have special significance for people in India. More indeed than October 2nd, the official holiday, which can commemorate little more than one mother's effort of delivering a baby boy, Mohanna, in Porbandar. As his philosopher grandson Ramu Gandhi once reminded me at his usual haunt in Delhi, "there is no merit in getting born, or getting a…