As You Sow...

Ah, one can hear the sigh, the system. Yes, indeed, the system. At the heart of political corruption in India lies the need for funding elections. Someone, after all, has to find the money to fight them. The Gandhi family, for a variety of reasons, centralised the operation. Mr Rao, first because of his weakness and then out of cynicism, decentralised it. He let a hundred crooks bloom and in doing so further distanced elemental morality from politics. Today, if his good deeds are forgotten and people are sniggering at him for being a char sau bees, like others who have similarly been disgraced Mr Rao should know who is to blame