[srean]

Look beyond your bubble sir and you will know how. Feel free to downvote, patriotism is one thing, being adiabatic to or discouraging of criticism is another. I am Indian, and if you dig my threads you will find I react to claims that try to portray all Indian's as corrupt. All I can say is that whatever snippets of detail that have been let out here, all ring true.

You ask how may a person might come in contact with powers that be in their daily course of work. If anecdotes are the currency we are trading in, here is a well known one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binayak_Sen