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Your Bribe, Should You Choose to Accept It

In the secret language of corruption in India, an official expecting a bribe will ask for Mahatma Gandhi to “smile” at him. The revered leader of the independence movement is on all denominations of rupee notes.

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With rampant dishonesty ingrained in the bureaucratic culture, an anticorruption group has decided to interpret the euphemism literally by issuing a zero-rupee note.

From the Times Online, “Can this note stamp out corruption in a land where it’s the norm?” Image from India Watch. I forget who sent me the link, sorry!

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