Corruption is defined as using public office for the private gains. The word public is therefore important. Everything in India must be thought through this framework of the republic, for India is a republic, it is the people’s republic. John Dewey wrote an invaluable book called “The Public and its problems”, in which he laments that the public must be created based on the trinity of liberty, equality, and fraternity: the principles on which Indian republic is constituted.

If we look at the history of corruptions in India, it is driven by the very framework of the caste and the privileges to be corrupt and hence immunity from the corruption, particularly those who come from India’s privileged classed in the caste system. It is so openly clear that the likes of Lalit Modi, Mallaya, and now Nirav Modi have been at the very vortex of corruption in India. Their crime is the crime against India. The organized loot that they conducted in India has no match with even the political corruption that rocks India from time to time.

The amount of money looted by the two Modis (and the third Modi is ever silent on these issues) and likes of Mallaya has drained people’s money and that plunder took place in the broad daylight. This corruption took place with the help of politicians as they are people who know what is going on the country, unlike the common citizens. The syndicate of the politicians and Bania and Brahmin capitalists have destroyed the wealth of the Indian nation. According to one report, the government injected Rs 2.5 lakh crores in the banking system in last 10 years to fund the NPAs.

It means that the public is effectively paying the capitalists without any impunity. All the big dons of corruptions have fled India and Indian government is watching like an umpire in the cricket match. What is dangerous is the way the petty scams in India are highlighted. Lalu Prasad Yadav is in the jail for a few crores of rupees while the scamsters from the Brahmin-Bania background are roaming the globe. There is always a CBI sword hanging over the necks of politicians from the so-called lower castes, while the Brahmin and Banias are scot free.

The corruption in India is also caste in the caste-like everything else in this country.

Author – Mangesh Dahiwale, Human Rights Activist

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