Corruption comes in all kinds of packages

To unearth the existence of ‘corruption’ in different situations is a gigantic task. The diabolic term is not alien to anyone and is disliked by many. Corruption had many forms. The most common: bribe, hush money, service charges, and kick back have developed over the years.

Political corruption is the abuse of public power, office, or resources by government officials or employees for personal gain and is carried out by extorting, soliciting, or offering bribes.

Police corruption comes in form of misconduct, which is to obtain financial benefits, other personal gain, and/or career advancement in exchange for not pursuing, or selectively pursuing, an investigation or arrest.

Corporate corruption comes in form of abuse of power by corporation officials, either internally or externally.

Corruption as a philosophical concept often refers to spiritual or moral impurity or deviation from an ideal.

Data corruption is an unintended change to the data stored. Linguistic corruption refers to the changes in meaning to a language or a, text introduced by cumulative errors in transcription or as changes in the language speakers’ comprehension.

Corruption in the rule of law is governmental corruption of the judiciary and includes governmental spending on the courts. In many developing countries, the executive exercises complete financially control over the judiciary.

India, like many emerging markets and democracies around the world, often faces the adulterated side of “righteous” path.
It’s therefore no surprise that Mahatma Gandhi’s prophecy has come true. “Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today,” he had said much before India started calling herself as the most populated and vibrant democracy in the world.

In late 1970s, Mrs Indira Gandhi, who was not related to Mahatma Gandhi, tried to console the victims of political corruption. Corruption, she declared, is global phenomena. She was right.