Saturday, November 20, 2010

Angry Indians take anti-corruption fight online...

After decades spent deploring the daily blight of bribery in private, thousands of Indians are taking the anti-graft fight into their own hands and going online to shame the guilty.

India is no stranger to graft, whether it be a billion-dollar corporate fraud case or absurdly inflated toilet paper contracts for the athletes’ village at last month’s Commonwealth Games in New Delhi.

But corruption is most vividly felt in people’s everyday lives, with seemingly endless requests for backhanders to secure everything from phone connections to birth certificates and school admissions letters. More...

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