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Corruption-less world
Jaspal Bhatti 

Is there a magic wand for ending corruption overnight? I don’t think so. Had there been such a wand, the corrupt would have hidden it in the mountains of the Himalayas. What if somebody achieves desired weight-loss overnight after a crash course in dieting? Unhealthy propositions! And similarly, if corruption became extinct in India overnight, what would the scenario be?

People would be found more in jails than their homes. It is because at closer inspection every man in his lifetime would be found guilty of giving or receiving bribes. `A0Building schools, hospitals, roads and flyovers wouldn’t be on the government’s agenda at all. But building more and more jails would be.

People would stop trying to get jobs in the Police, the Excise and the Income Tax Departments. Instead of politics, people would turn to farming. It would be a common topic for discussion that the post of Home Minister and/or Finance Minister has been lying vacant from the past 14 months.

Asylums would be overflowing because all those people, who would have paid crores of rupees to get their tenders passed, would be tearing their hair now. And the biggest casualty would be that our super-honest PM, Manmohan Singh, would have to relinquish his post. If everybody in the government was going to be honest, why would we need Mr Singh anyway?

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