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People, especially those people who are poor and who have lagged behind socially, expect the next government to enable them to off-load the socioeconomic problems that beset them. There are, of course, certain things they can make positive changes to overnight. These things are not in the economic domain. We must accept that there is no alternative to suffering from the economic problems for some years until we find ourselves at a point where the economic problems are almost addressed. These things are in the social domain.
Such social problems as corruption in its all forms, social exclusion, ethnic, religious, gender and regional discrimination can be solved immediately. What is needed is that those who run the next government should be ready to solve them. They should not equate these problems with economic problems. The equation of the former with the latter would fool them into thinking that the former cannot be addressed immediately. This false thinking will at least delay its solution. It seems that their understanding of all of these problems except corruption is adequate enough that they are likely to solve these problems completely. I do not think they will abolish corruption in its all forms because I doubt they are aware of corruption in all these forms.
I add a new form of corruption to the already known forms of corruption. I call this “intellectual corruption”, by which I mean a set of irresponsible behaviors shown by the educational administration and even the so-called intellectuals themselves, that are an impediment to the production of knowledge and scholars in the true sense. I think talk of social and economic progress has overshadowed talk of intellectual progress. They seem to be unaware of the fact that intellectual progress is one of the preconditions for rapidly developing the society we live in. They must pay attention to this form of corruption not figured in our common understanding of corruption.
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Ajit Rai
I take a deep interest in development and underdevelopment as well as in politics, especially in its relation to economics. Currently, I am undertaking systematic research, and intend to theorize about Nepalese development and underdevelopment from a socio-philosophical approach.
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