[anmol]

Governance in India consists of terrible mismanagement and obscene corruption. The country's growth has been driven by the private sector and privatization.

Its so entrenched in the billion person economy, there simply seems to be no way for the educated classes to have an impact and change this. Any ideas on how this can be changed?

[Synaesthesia]

Something similar in South Africa. At least India has decent mass education, the only way I see out. You need everyone to be educated, connected and have a true participatory democracy.

[kamaal]

The problem is everybody talks against corruption, but when they themselves get a chance to be corrupt they go for it.

People feel what they do is right, and what others do is wrong. No matter what the truth is.

[jhatax]

What is even more deplorable, depressing even, is that the educated Indians are the worst of the lot. You would think education would bring about change and an unwillingness to give in to the corruption. You would be absolutely wrong.

The educated are the ones with money, and if you have money in India, you can get away with almost anything unscathed. Notice how the wealthy/rich/educated are almost never standing in lines in India. It is always poor folk in line; the rich have paid someone to either stand in line, or the government agent to cut ahead of the line.

As someone said, India's problems are too complex to propose simple solutions. Educating the masses is just one prong of a multi-pronged approach to making things "right".

[pm90]

It really depends on what you mean by "educated". I went to one of the best engineering universities; yet I was shocked to see that a large chunk of the students had no qualms with cheating, copying etc. Essentially, the "education" they received was only as a means to land a job