Desi colours of corruption

I always felt that the word corruption needed a dictionary of words, a thesaurus of local terms and a contour map to show the changing nature of territory. We take for granted what we mean by corruption, rendering uniform the spaces in which it occurs.

Corruption deals with opportunities and restrictions. Restrictions can be artificial and yet real. When restrictions are converted into opportunities as rent, a bribe is born. Basically, corruption is a triangle of three states: violence, scarcity and desire. They all operate through the grammar of classification.

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