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The CBI fiasco: A wonderful opportunity

It is, instead, a set of rules created over a long period of time to give effect to a set of values that evolve gradually to enable control

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Security personnel stand guard outside the CBI headquarters, in Bengaluru, Friday, Oct 26, 2018

T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan
Now that the rot Indira Gandhi introduced into government in the mid-1970s has begun to suppurate in the form of the open festering in the CBI, we will hear a lot of wailing about the degeneration of “institutions”. Often, however, many people have only a vague notion of what the term “institutions” means.

So it is worth reminding everyone that an “institution” is not a building. Nor is it an office. It is also not something that is instantly created. It is also not something available for duty-free import. Indeed, there are many things that it is not.

It is, instead, a
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