How Bribery & Failing Services Are Breaking India!

30 Dec 2025 · 2 min

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In this monologue, the speaker denounces the rapid deterioration of India’s public infrastructure and governance. He highlights the chaotic and unreliable nature of Indian government websites, where users waste hours on tasks that should take minutes, illustrating a broader failure of the nation’s touted IT prowess. He then points to the ongoing crisis in the Indian airport system, with massive flight cancellations, as evidence of systemic breakdowns in essential services. Finally, he observes a cultural shift in corruption: whereas bribery was once discreet and euphemized, today bureaucrats openly demand and boast about bribes, indicating a loss of any remaining veneer of integrity. The overall tone is sharply critical, painting a picture of a country whose institutions are collapsing under inefficiency and unabashed corruption.

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India is getting worse by the day. This country is falling apart, David Oualaalou. And, you know, a few things you can always do these days, which is to— let's try, go to a website of an Indian government website, and you will get lost in that website. It's badly structured, it collapses all the time. If you try to log in, do some login work there,, it does not work very well. You might spend hours doing what you would— what would take a minute or two. So when even in IT sector where India claims so-called international supremacy, it can— it fails so badly, you can imagine how bad the situation is. As I referred to you earlier, Indian airport system is in a complete crisis right now with thousands of flights canceled. Because it's just everything continues to worsen. And David, one key thing that shows me that things are becoming so bad is that when I was younger, when it came to offering bribes, it was euphemized. You would give them bribe as a gift or as, as something for the wife of the guy or children of the guy. But today, a bureaucrat will shamelessly ask for bribe, he openly feels proud about taking bribes. So even this veneer of values that India had a few decades back about not accepting bribes is all gone. Now they are proud that they get bribes and that they collect a lot of bribes.