Are we a nation of educated crooks?

Here are some recent findings on the corrupt status of the World

The Indian fraud figures are given below (some relates news items are here 1, 2, 3)

• Fraud is an ever growing phenomenon with 54% of the respondent organisations from India reporting economic crime in the last two years as compared to 24% in the previous survey
• Most prevalentnt economic crime experienced in the country is Counterfeiting followed by Corruption & Bribery
• A typical perpetrator of economic crime in India was a graduate or post graduate male between 31-50 years of age
• Most of the respondents initiated an internal investigation in response to the offence
• Only 18% of the respondents consider it likely to come across fraud in the near future
  
  There is certainly an increase in the white collar crimes all around. Were educated Indians always like this? Then what is wrong with their education that they resorfraudulentulant practices so frequently.
  
  It is said that in early India the traditional police gave had to locate property lost through robbery within a stipulated time and if it was not found, they would replace it with their own property. A Britisher first encountering this system in India in the 19th century writes to his brother in London, saying that such a system could only work among a society with high integrity and it cannot even be imagined in London of those days.
  
  How could such a society change within a 200 year period so drastically? Is our education system devoid of ethics so much that as soon as an Indian youth finds himself in position to manage some funds, he / she resorts to such fpracticectics. If so, is it not the duty of our educationists to think seriously of this. While we prepare more cheap-skill-labourer girmatiyas for the ITES corporations, it is important that we also understand the quality of people who will manage these corporations. Are we o.k. with a nation of corporatised educated crooks???

Why can't we wear tri-color underpants??

Prevention of Insults to National Honour (Amendment) Bill, 2005

It is not officially permitted to wear the tri-colour above your waist as part of your attire says the Government. Strange, I thought that the cricket field has long since abandoned this. Haven't we seen footages of repeatedly spectators wearing the tri-colour around their waist, use it as a seat in the case of dirty chairs, and many such utilitarian purposes!?

If improperly using tri-colour is punishable, the government of India should conduct free camps across the country on how to fly the national flag right side up, to begin with tell a few people which is the right side. We are subjected year after year of watching in our government offices flying it upside down on the independence day.

While on that, the government should also perhaps spend some money to teach people how to sing the National anthem with some semblance of understanding and pride, I was shocked last year to be in a government function where (it is a routine to play prayer and national anthem by the audio system) when the audio system failed not more than a few could murmur the national anthem and that too all wrong. It is a national shame that the government is so bent on protection of a the tri-colour and national symbols through regulation and protection acts, but, fails to instruct and educate people as to how should they use it.