If we take out population (digress: you must listen to Sadhguru's scathing talk about this at the award function for PGH), India's biggest bane will have to be corruption. Mostly, every Indian would have been party to corruption in some little way. As Shaffi Mather points out here, the common man has to put up with corruption to just get on with his daily life. It is a necessity and that is the shame. I am excited when he talks about his for-profit company that aims to push-back on bribery opportunities*. I draw a blank on the thought process - but if he really knows what he is doing and he is able to generate a working model, the implications are exciting! I've been party to this diseased way of operating in many little ways - mostly because of that ONE REASON - to get on with my life. I remember one night when I pushed 50 rupees into a traffic constable's hands as I was rushing on a deadline to drop my friend at the railway station (no, I did not specifically break any rule - he was trying to get me on a technicality)
We have brought corruption to the point where it will not go away easily even if we try. Campaigning against it will work, but it will take patience and extensive effort, not to mention subtle and gross resistance. A system like the one Shaffi Mather is attempting, if it works, is by for the most powerful method. He says his pilot cases have worked - here is wishing him the best!
* - It is very important that it is "for profit" because it must be self sustaining. Any other good intentioned initiative will end up begging for donations to keep it alive.
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