Ministers and Bureaucrats

Ministers have the magical wand in their hands and that is the power to transfer the bureaucrats. To retain plump posts bureaucrats keep their bosses in good humor through cash or kind. The bosses know the value of these plump posts and get regular cuts. Bureaucrats and junior level officers bathe in the sea of corruption though sometime saltish sea water harms their health. If at all they are caught even red handed they get out of the mess by offering hushed-up money. What a strange game this nexus between politicians and bureaucrats plays with the nation.

Job-seekers get jobs only when they grease the palm of the selectors. Once selected they indulge in full scale corruption and take bribery first to realize the cash they have given in bribery and then they fill their own pockets. This goes on. When we see everybody steeped in the mire of corruption we say to ourselves— why not us?