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        The guilty naturally resent comment, more so when it comes from abroad, The sense of hurt pride is understandable but not hypocrisy. One should own up to oneself one's guilt.

        When Churchill said that power was transferred in India to men of straw, all of us roared in anger but he has been proved more than right by some in government at every level.

        The greater mistake is the proclivity for scoring private ends even if it be to the detriment of society or the nation.

        Corruption is provoked by seeking to circumvent the law to gain one's ends. The bad example set by a few becomes universal and corruption becomes endemic.

        The king ordered every one of his subjects to offer in a cauldron kept within a cloistered room one litre of milk for the deity in the temple.

        Next day, there was no milk but only water because each one thought his litre of water would not matter in a cauldron filled with milk.

        It is a bane of a large democracy with high levels of poverty that the urge to opt for one-upmanship games enhances selfishness and obliteates compassion and concern for others.

        It is not that there is no awareness but obsessive self-interest blinds people one to their responsibilty to their deprived brethren.