Corruption is presently the most alarming malady afflicting practically all of India's one billion people save a small number who are very rich and can, therefore, bribe their way through or those who hold positions of power in the governance of the counrty and whom no one can thwart.

In fact, corruption in India has assumed canerous proportions and has become, surreptiously, an all-devouring monster riavlling the ancient Greek vision of nightmarish "Hydra' who pssessed nine heads with the added attribute that if one of these heads was chopped off it would instantly be replaced by two.