Better 'Nouveau' Than Never

Cases of corporate skullduggery, financial shenanigans, kickbacks and hush money collected by ministers, have escalated not only in numbers, but in size in the last 12 years. In India unlike in the west there are no built-in social security measures to protect the victims of the self-indulgence of free market and privatisation. There is neither any professional adherence to legal norms, nor any humanitarian commitment to social concerns in the judiciary.