| Lobbying is a good thing and as Indian citizen I wish it was legal in India. It helps small groups unite and openly and transparently seek legislative changes they want. In India you bribe secretly. The party wants all funds channeled to party supremo so they changes laws to make sure Individual legislators can not pass any bills of their own against party wishes. So that wont happen in India. We will always have to pay bribes secretly. >Plus, you are in a country where you can go to war to satisfy your friends benefit. India does not have financial muscle to start a war but Indian government starts projects to help friends all the time. > You are in a country bailing the banks that ruined themself. Almost all major Indian banks are owned by state heavily mismanaged and completely inefficient. They run as jobs program and are every year bailed out using taxpayer money. >You are in a country where it's legal to snatch somebody without a trial. Where you can get in secret prisons and be tortured. All that justified by events that killed less people than the flu. Indian government can put you in jail for years without trial. Even for a high profile celebrity case takes on an average 10 years to conclude. >Where massive surveillance is allowed by politicians for security, yet they ban all attempt of transparency on their own actions. There is no privacy in India. If the cop asks you to undress you better do. |