For almost a year now, I have been almost regularly following news in various media about corruption in India and the fight against it at the initiative of Anna Hazare with the help of a team of several other people who are referred to as a small group representing the civil society of the a great country. There has been of thinking and agitation among the people of India due to the activities of these men and women who have been channeling the widepread resentment against in too many of places in politics and administration and in innumerable ways.

I am of the opinion that as long as corruption remains effectively nnchecked and the corrupt remain unpunished, India will suffer from a lack of ability to tap full human potential while its resources (of land, water, minerals, etc.), which are already highly limited -- relative to a hhumongous population of 1.3 billion which is growing, at a fast and uncontrolled rate -- will be increasingly denied to larger and larger proportions of the population due to theft and deception in various forms, by the corrupt sections in all spheres of India. Although several organistion exist with a constitutional mandate for vigilance over corruption, and investigation and prosecution crimes of corrupt people, this system has largely been rendered ineffective.

In the final analysis, it is not going to be ever possible to make the various systems like legal, political, administrative, business, mining, etc., truly effective in a fully corrupt corruption-free and efficient manner when a democracy exceeds a certain large size for the population. Which means, the people in such democracies must be willing to accept ount of a certain amount of curbing of democratic rights and privileges, in their own best common interests of survival and thriving with high economic standards and peace for all.