A perception problem

  • 13/03/2003

  • Business Standard (New Delhi)

India's dubious number two ranking on the Asian corruption index will come as no surprise to Indians accustomed as we are to our daily dose of political scandal and day-to-day speed money transactions. As a people, we have come injured to bribing traffic cops for jumping a signal, for speeding up PF payments and IT refunds, for hastening government clearances in fact for anything in which some babu has the power to delay......Editorial