NEW DELHI – the best Indian politicians is that they make you feel that you are a better person. Not surprisingly, that Indians often guide their moral confidence by the complaints of the examination of their own actions, but from about themselves as decent people pillaged by villainous politician damaged,.
This at the heart of a self-righteous middle class rebellion against political corruption, a news television series, which was thereby reached its inevitable climax in Delhi on Tuesday as a rural social reformer Anna Hazare set out for his death quickly - the second one he tried that this year to press his claim to a powerful anti-corruption agency.
He was allegedly arrested by the police, in the interest of the law and order.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, took his independence day address to the nation on Monday, excavations at Mr Hazare and rotate its tactics of the use of hunger strikes to arm an elected Government. Mr Singh said that he no "magic wand", end corruption in India.
The anti-corruption movement has the simplicity of a third rate fable.
There are the good guys (the reformers and the Indian average) and the bad guys (politician). But the real story is no fable, but art cinema.
Indians have a deep and complicated relationship with corruption. As in any long marriage, it is not clear whether they are happy or unhappy married. The country's economic system is with many strands of corruption and fused organized systems of tax evasion. The middle class is very much a part of it.
Most Indians have paid bribes. Most Indian companies do not survive or remain competitive without stashing away undeclared earnings.
Almost everyone who sold a House acquired a part of the payment in bar and evaded tax on it.
The branding of corruption is still, so powerful, that Indians now moaning, you hear the word. The comic hypocrisy of all was the best in the last few months, as the anti-corruption movement gathered unprecedented middle-class support.
As Mr Hazare in April to protest a hunger strike against political corruption much glamour went, added stars of Mumbai his cause by coming out in unequivocal support. Two months later, as a yoga teacher called Baba Ramdev on a fast demanding, that the Government "Illegal" examine hidden in foreign accounts, silence was in the leading roles. For good reason.
The film industry is much cleaner today than it was more than a decade ago, but officials say revenue, large quantities of secret wealth are still his system.
One reason for the mafia to the film industry in the 1990s could get so tightly under control was that it had served a business relationship with producers and actors and as an effective conduit for illicit their money transfer to foreign places of refuge.
After Mr. Ramdev fast when the Government agreed, Indian hidden to examine money in foreign banks, the times of India ran a fascinating story, which argues that the law corrupt politicians should make a distinction between the "black", earned money by bribes, and the "black money" of business people who had moved their cash in other countries years ago before the unreasonably high tax rates in the Socialist India to save. The article had implied that corrupt politicians are the real evil, and the tax Dodge only clever entrepreneurs.
Corruption is such an integral part of Indian society, which has proposed economic adviser to the Government of Kaushik Basu, legalization of the purpose of the payment of bribes. He received enthusiastic corporate support expected, because corporations are the largest bribe payers in India.
Mr Basu's argument is that if the payment were legalized by bribes, bribe payers could be persuaded to reveal the recipient. This would inject fear into the hearts of the politicians and officials, the bribes expected. N.r. Narayana Murthy, founder of the Indian software firm of Infosys, said in a television interview, that Mr Basu was "a great idea."
Informal way granted Indian society legitimacy of the bribe payer, because "Bribe-payer", that is a description of most of the country, including many of Mr Hazare well fits supporters dressed.
This legitimacy is somewhat absurd, when extended to corporations.
If the action of Indians is the political corruption of public funds, then the main beneficiaries were pilfers who? It is the company that back up the licenses at discounted prices in exchange for bribes.
But the public anger is aimed only at the middleman - the politician.
There are several reasons for this. Among them, the simple fact that many of the new followers of the anti-corruption movement are senior employees themselves, and it is a common perception, is that while a society virtually must be virtuous, a politician.
Also, the mainstream Indian news media are efficiently controlled by companies, to pull advertising on all negative coverage can threaten.
Behind the power of India's anti-corruption movement is the rise of new emotions: young urban Indians are more interested in their nation than ever before. As a result, they are politically aware.
Seven years ago, I went to Mumbai questions fashionably dressed college students questions like, "who is the Deputy Prime Minister of India?" Often, I saw with long, bringing set to silence or "Oh my God, quiz."
When I asked a young Muslim woman who question "Who is Narendra modes?" they said she had before not heard the name. Mr MODI, chief Minister of Gujarat, at the time and is still accused of helping unrest, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of Muslims.
Today is a significant increase in the number of young people, the acutely aware and are interested in the fate of the nation. This is because they are different from the generations before them, the only aim of which was to escape India in life. Now that the world is what it is, there is no place to escape. You want your home a better place - where bribe takers will be punished and bribe payer lives happily ever after.
Manu Joseph is editor of the Indian stream open and author of the novel "Serious men."
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