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The Mathematics of Integrity: Why India Must Transition from Klitgaard to the G-O Framework

  For far too many years, the global discourse on the cancer of corruption has remained tethered to a single, additive equation. Robert Klitgaard’s seminal formula  Corruption = Monopoly + Discretion – Accountability (C = M + D - A)  has served as the conventional North Star for administrative reform for decades. It has exhorted us to dismantle monopolies, simplify rules, and intensify oversight. Yet, despite the vast resources and intellectual capital expended on Accountability measures across the globe, corruption persists as a stubborn, pervasive, and exhausting tax on national growth and the public spirit. The failure of this traditional model is structural. While Klitgaard’s work provides a useful administrative checklist for a bureaucracy, it fails to account for the most volatile and decisive variable in the governance equation: human agency. It treats corruption as a mere systemic lapse, overlooking the deeper behavioral propensity and the internal motivations o...
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पाँच सकारात्मकताओं की संस्कृति

पाँच सकारात्मकताओं की संस्कृति यह पूछे जाने पर कि क्या कारण है कि स्वतन्त्रता के सात दशकों से अधिक के बाद , कुछ क्षेत्रों में स्पष्ट प्रगति के बावजूद , भारत आज भी विकासशील देशों में शामिल है , एक वयोवृद्ध सज्जन , जो भारतीय गणराज्य के प्रथम 40 वर्षों में 38 वर्ष एक अखिल भारतीय सेवा के सदस्य रह चुके हैं , का उत्तर था , " हमारा डीएनए ही गड़बड़ है." किन्तु ऐसा बिलकुल नहीं है , हम भारतीयों का डीएनए वैसा ही है जैसा अन्य देशों के निवासियों का , परंतु दोष है पिछली दो-तीन शताब्दियों में हमारे देश में पनपी और बढ़ी सामाजिक एवं कार्य संस्कृति का. कुछ सम्माननीय अपवादों को छोड़ दें तो यह संस्कृति बेईमानी , अतिशयोक्ति , स्वयं को भी धोखा देने , गैर-ज़िम्मेदारी , कानून तोड़ने , अनुशासनहीनता और कार्य में अयोग्यता एवं अकुशलता की बन गई है. यदि भारत को लगभग डेढ़ अरब भारतीयों की प्रतिभा एवं उनको मिल रहे अवसरों के साथ न्याय करना है तो पूरे देश में वर्तमान में व्याप्त नकारात्मक संस्कृति के स्थान पर पाँच सकारात्मकताओं - सत्यनिष्ठा या ईमानदारी , श्रेष्ठता , कानून का पालन , ज़िम्मेदारी , और देशभक्ति - की...
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The Culture of Five Positives

  THE  CULTURE  OF  FIVE  POSITIVES Asked what was the reason India was still a developing country more than seven decades after independence and obvious progress in some fields, an elderly gentleman, who had been a member of an all-India service for all but the first two of the Indian republic's first forty years, replied that our DNA was defective. Well, the fault does not lie in our DNA but in the culture we have developed and have adopted over the last couple of centuries. Barring some honourable exceptions, it is a culture of dishonesty, self-delusion, indiscipline, irresponsibility, and under-performance. If India is to truly do justice to the talent of almost billion and a half Indians and the opportunities they have, the present negative culture will have to be replaced by the culture of five positives—Honesty, Excellence, Law-abidingness, Responsibility, and above all, Patriotism. What follows is an explanation, in some detail, of each of these five pos...
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Kanan Jaswal's Thoughts of the Days of March 2023

  Mar 01:      When a crime finds societal acceptance, the entire society should be charged for it.     Mar 02:     Why can't we accept it gracefully that a waxing love will some day start waning? Mar 03:       Inspiring one poor person to come out of poverty is far better than lecturing on poverty removal all the time. Mar 04:        Friendship for all - animate or inanimate - is the highest religion. Mar 05:      Despite the Chinese killing 20 of our soldiers in a treacherous attack in the Galwan Valley in June 2020, we Indians are getting more and more enamoured of Chinese products. This is evidenced by our trade  deficit with China more than doubling in just two years, from $45.8 billion in 2020 to US$101 billion in 2022. Mar 06:      While the strength of a chain is that of the weakest link, a team is as strong as the captain.  Mar 07:    ...
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