Hi,
No country became systematic and their citizens filled with civic sense over night....France, USA, GB have a history of political and administrative thinkers......and revolutions have happened there...they have seen 2 devastating world wars....thats how they got so matured today as nations..
our country was mauled, raped and dominated by various external aggressors starting from Arabs to Europeans...due to which certain attitude has developed among Indians...our mentality was dented left, right and center and resultant is "me first" attitude..a dog's attitude...this has developed post independence of India in a great measurement...which actually invited many problems starting from traffic rule violations...to bribing...to God knows what...
..bribing was at its heights during British rule...Robert Clive was the most corrupt brit then....brits have nicely instilled bribery into Indian civil services which slowly was inherited to our Govt System...in a way they wanted a channel to exploit this country even after they leave..so that we will dance according to their tunes whenever required by them brits...bribery in India today has its roots there...so its a habit of few babus in Govt to use their authority for their monetary gains....and we as a citizens got accustomed with it....to list out..I have both bitter and pleasant experiences with Govt functionaries...but not all are bad...its few rotten mangoes which bring foul smell to all...
most people who go abroad and come back will feel the difference and say "you know US..UK..Ozz...ohh wowww"....but the thing they conveniently forget is that they got their passports through an agent paying thousands of rupees before they left this country...{now lets not fight over "me didn't do" stuff here...}
Boss....if one can write 100 pages good about India ....there shall be another to claim 101 pages bad about India without knowing the history and background info....what we have to understand is that this is an evolutionary process...compare every decade between the years 1947 and 2007...w.r.t India....you'll see a rise in almost all fields..be it literacy, economy..etc.
We
just have to accept the fact that...change will be slow...and move on with good spirit and hope.
Sorry for baking everyone's head here..I didn't mean to offend anyone..
bottom line is
Yatha Praja Tatha Raja
and vice versa
Contemporarily, Citizen and the Govt System are complimentary to each other.
It is an evolutionary process to become a developed country....
so lets have patience..lets try to be truthful and rightful when its our turn...thats how change starts
Peace

Venkat
P.S. Apologies to OP for contributing to the derailment of this thread but couldn't stop myself pulling up 2 cents over the topic..