Corruption: Connecting people since ages

Change is an inevitable factor of human life. They say that “change is the only thing that is constant,” and so remains the irony. We change, we adapt, those who don’t are referred to as backward, slow and not keeping up with the running world.

But corruption is something that can change the change. It is prevalent from the smallest to the biggest of areas. Government, finances, household affairs… everything. You name it and there is a kind of corruption present everywhere.

You pay the principal some amount to get your child into school, its a corrupt way. You get caught jumping a red light and bail yourself out of it, its corruption. You want to buy the latest iPhone so you pay the store manager an extra sum, its corruption.

Even housewives practice an insignificant form of corruption in managing household. It is as inevitable as change. Infact, it can be said that now corruption is in the social fabric of human.

These thought reiterated, as a huge crowd of Romanians gathered at the Wembley Park yesterday. They wanted to vote in the presidential elections. One of the candidates, who is of the same party as the PM, is corrupt.

As the ambassador in UK organised voting in London for the Romanians residing here, they made sure that it was excruciatingly slow. When the process is slow, less people actually vote and thus the results can be tampered with.

This presidential candidate has gained the unpopular support amongst the people. He is allegedly corrupt. So by making sure that most people don’t vote, he can get the decision in his favour, which otherwise would be against him.

This is not the first time that this is happening and definitely not the last time. But the fact that it is prevalent everywhere is nothing but disturbing. It is like a stain which is there on each society, some have a darker one and some have a lighter one.

“Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it’s set a rolling it must increase.” -Charles Caleb Colton