There is common misconception that corruption is only financial – that there are no other dimensions to corruption. Truly speaking, financial corruption is a symptom, and not the disease. The real malady is intellectual. This is obvious from the perception among us, if there is corruption, one should try to circumvent, but one should not really deal with corruption. It is one thing to understand the factors of corruption. Having under stood it, it is quite another thing to have the courage to change it. We have to therefore, determine the means for doing so.
Corruption is cheating, be it financial or otherwise. Corruption is deception. Corruption is lack of morals, its dishonesty and all such negative attributes can be used to define corruption.
A corrupt person is void of morals, ethics, and lacks integrity.
it's not just with politicians, ordinary people are very much into corruption, bribing is so common amongst desis. like black money, so taxes can be evaded...bribing a police officer so we dont get a ticket..right?