Though I am not an avid newspaper reader, so as to get myself acquainted with the current affairs, I recently started reading a lot of things. The predominant ones among them were the recent CWG scam, the 2G spectrum distribution and our very own ADARSH scandal.

Now we all know that there is only one deep-rooted evil responsible for this chaos, and that is what we term as ‘corruption’.

But what exactly is the reason for this corruption? One thing we all know is man’s greed. As the saying goes ‘There is enough in this world for man’s need but not enough for his greed’. Moreover, what bolsters it is our myopia, our short sighted vision of looking at things. Today we all want to progress and are least bothered about others. And this attitude spreads like an epidemic. Like everything else, these bribes, kickbacks, corrupt practices had to originate somewhere. Once born, these required greedy minds to flourish. And what else is more craving for money and power than the human mind. Initially it was endemic, but gradually it became an epidemic. No one can trace the origin of these ideas, but what can certainly be said is that they have grown exponentially. Talking of our short-sightedness as mentioned earlier, I would like to highlight one thing. We all have this desire to live life king-size and today the only thing that can make it possible is money. To achieve it, we resort to all sorts of malpractices, and in the process don’t realise that in the long term it is we and our future generations who will have to bear the brunt of this ephemeral success. What we don’t understand is that our short term goals hamper our long term vision. Had our freedom fighters also been selfish and not thought about us, we would still be ruining under the colonial rule. They had this vision of a free India and it was this vision that motivated them to sacrifice for their motherland. Similarly, we too need to think about our future generation as our current evils augur a disaster for the future. If things are not set right and we continue this way, then I am sorry to say but our descendants won’t have anything good to say about us.