Dearest Friends,
Read something super interesting… The title caught my interest. Sharing it with you my darling readers. I do not agree with everything that has been expressed, yet, I must say, there is so much here that makes super sense. Here is begins…
A New Zealander’s view on reason for corruption in India:
Indians seem to think nothing peculiar about corruption. It is everywhere.
Indians tolerate corrupt individuals rather than correct them.
To know why Indians are corrupt, look at their patterns and practices.
Firstly: Religion is transactional in India. Indians give God cash and anticipate an out-of-turn reward. Such a plea acknowledges that favours are needed for the undeserving. In the world outside the temple walls, such a transaction is named “bribe”. A wealthy Indian does not give ‘mere’ cash to temples, but gold crowns and such baubles. His pay-off is for God. He thinks he won’t benefit personally if it goes to a needy man.
In June 2009, The Hindu published a report of Karnataka minister G. Janardhan Reddy gifting a crown of gold and diamonds worth Rs 45 crore to Tirupati. India’s temples collect so much that they don’t know what to do with it. Billions are gathering dust in temple vaults.
When Europeans came to India they built schools. When Indians go to Europe & USA, they build temples. Have you heard of any Indian building a school abroad?
Indians believe that if God accepts money for his favours, then nothing is wrong in doing the same thing. This is why Indians are so easily corruptible. Indian culture accommodates such transaction.
Secondly: Morally, there is no real stigma. An utterly corrupt JayaLalita can make a comeback, just unthinkable in the West. This is unique to India.
Indians’ corrupt nature has meant limited warfare on the subcontinent. It is striking how little Indians have actually fought compared to ancient Greece and modern Europe. The Turk’s battles with Nadir Shah were vicious and fought to the finish. In India fighting wasn’t needed, bribing was enough to see off armies.
Any invader willing to spend cash could brush aside India’s kings, no matter how many tens of thousands soldiers were in their infantry. Little resistance was given by the Indians at the “Battle” of Plassey. Clive paid off Mir Jaffar and all of Bengal folded to an army of 3,000.
There was always a financial exchange to taking Indian forts. Golconda was captured in 1687 after the secret back door was left open.
Mughals vanquished Marathas and Rajputs often with bribes.
The Raja of Srinagar gave up Dara Shikoh’s son Sulaiman to Aurangzeb after receiving a bribe.
There are many cases where Indians participated on a large scale in treason due to bribery.
Question is: Why Indians have a transactional culture while other nations don’t?
Indians do not believe in the theory that they all can rise if each of them behaves morally, because that is not the message of their culture.
Their caste system separates them.
They don’t believe that all men are equal. This resulted in their division and migration to other religions. Many Hindus started their own faith like Sikhism, Jainism, Buddhism and many converted to Christianity and Islam. There are no Indians in India, there are Hindus, Christians, Muslims and what not.
Indians forget that 1400 years ago they all belonged to one faith.
This division evolved an unhealthy culture. The inequality has resulted in a corrupt society. They do believe in God but then, even he must be bribed.
BRIAN from Godzone
NEW ZEALAND
Sadly….yes !
(Incidentally, New Zealand is one of the least corrupt nations in the world.)
With love, prayers and exceptional wishes,
naren
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