Growth of gross corruption products

Jaswant Singh writes:

• I reflect in silence about this present turmoil and question myself in Kabir’s immortal words, freely translated: “I searched all round for wrong-doers and found none; but then lo! When I looked inside myself I found none more evil then I.” This is not, cannot be, an exercise in finger-pointing or routine fault-finding, it is a challenge to our collectivity. For surely somewhere there is a very great continuing failure that has now corrupted all organs of our republic: “all”, please reflect for a moment on that, “all organs”. And these “all” have, in varying degrees, become corrupt and dysfunctional.