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parthasarathy narasimhan • December 19, 2002 


Dear Bhakthas,

Does a Hamletian dilemma exist here?  If you have to pay extra money to save your parents even in a private hospital,  do you really have a choice?  In schools, where there is the pressure to see that your ward is put in a "good school" before the first week of June, can you refuse to pay the bribe to the Secretary, Correspondent and the Principal, which is what these huge donations are?

Since our society is venal and banal where the hospital, the schools, the bureaucrat, the politician and every other service provider is so incorrigibly corrupt, there is no way we can avoid paying a bribe.  A recent news item says that all of us - Indians in India - have paid a total of Rs.28,000 crores ($ 5.5 bn approx) as bribes last year.  Should one say any thing more?

My philosophy is:  in giving, I do not have a choice and so I will give where required. 

I will not take bribes.

Adiyen,

N.Parthasarathy

 

 



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