Retired Senior Management Professional, currently Management Consultant-Education and visiting Professor to Universities on Management.
Conducts courses in Soft Skills, Stress Management and Indian Philosophy and Culture.
With Degrees in Philosophy and Psychology, spent Eight Years in learning Vedas, Sacred Books of Hindus.
Interested in Philosophy,Psychology,Reading( any thing),Writing and anything that stimulates the mind.
Married for thirty years with Two sons, a daughter and Two grand children.I am from Bangalore, India.
I started Blogging in August 2009, because I wanted to be heard and a desire to share what I know and what interests me.
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Glad I bounced on to this site. Reading articles from the archives randomly or something that interests me!
I noticed my first two lines did not get pasted. Here they are:
I recvd this longish mail from someone. Is there some truth in it or it is another case of self-flagellation that we are good at?
My mail to your personal Id bounced – hence I’m here:
Bribery Culture of India?
Indians are Hobbesian.(culture of self interest)
Analysis on corruption in India does not address its cultural aspect. We see nothing peculiar about corruption in India (except that it is everywhere). We see many corrupt individuals in a system unable to correct itself. Our media reports corruption episodically. One independent incident of greed follows another.
Corruption in India is a cultural aspect.
Indians seem to think nothing peculiar about corruption. It is everywhere. Indians tolerate corrupt individuals rather than correct them.
No race can be congenitally corrupt. But can a race be corrupted by its culture? To know why Indians are corrupt, look at their patterns and practices .
First:
Religion is transactional in India. Indians give God cash and anticipate an out-of-turn reward. Such a plea acknowledges that favors are needed for the undeserving. In the world outside the temple walls, such a transaction is named – “bribe”.
A wealthy Indian gives not cash to temples, but gold crowns and such baubles. His gifts cannot feed the poor. His pay-off is for God.
He thinks it will be wasted 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.
Indians believe that if God accepts money for his favors, then nothing is wrong in doing the same thing. This is why Indians are so easily corruptible.
Indian culture accommodates such transactions morally. There is no real stigma. An utterly corrupt Jayalalitha can make a comeback, just unthinkable in the West.
Second -
Indian moral ambiguity towards corruption is visible in its history.
Indian history tells of the capture of cities and kingdoms after guards were paid off to open the gates, and commanders paid off to surrender.
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 Turks’ 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 with nothing but 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 ‘civilized’ nations don’t.
Third -
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 faith.
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 Sikh, Jain, Buddha and many converted to Christianity and Islam.
There are no Indians in India, (hard fact to digest) there are Hindus, Christians, Muslims and what not. Indians forget that 500 years ago they all belonged to one faith.
This division evolved an unhealthy culture. The inequality has resulted in a corrupt society.
In India everyone is thus against everyone else, except God – ¬ and even he must be bribed.
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THAMILAN ‘S ADDRESS
I might take this as a compliment.
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I am sorry.I have used it inadvertently.I have removed the image.
Bush waving from the truck-http://ramanan50.wordpress.com/2011/08/13/true-story-behind-911-attack-latest-research-how-the-terrorists-went-about/
Regret the use.
Regards,
Ramanan.S.V.
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list of swiss bank account holders
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http://www.tehelka.com/story_main50.asp?filename=Ne060811Godfather.asp
M.K. Azhagiri has assets worth more than Rs. 3,500 crore in benami names
http://thatstamil.oneindia.in/news/2011/08/04/mk-azhagiri-has-assets-worth-rs-3-500-cr-tehelka-aid0128.html
I suggest you also read, if you haven’t already, Tolstoy, Bertrend Russel, R W Emerson, MK Gandhi, Vivekananda, John Ruskin, Aldous Huxley etc.
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