Is It Real?

The largest democracy exercise in the world has just ended. While Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi put their heads together and decide who gets to be the top brass, we can do nothing but put forward a simple request to them: NO CORRUPT MINISTERS! The strongest signal that Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi can send out the netas  and their babus is to pave the cabinet with honest and elegant men and women. Let us not continue with ministers who have so brazenly bled the system. the clean-up needs to start at the top. How can we blame the pitiably paid traffic constable or the lowly government clerk for trying to make a buck on the side when their big bosses- be it politicians or bureaucrats- are making a million times more? Corruption has become endemic. Worse, and this is the really sad part, we have come to accept it as a way of life. The fact is corruption penalizes the honest, distorts important decisions and policies, weakens the moral fibre of a society, and, most grievous of all, ro