Just a week ago I returned to US after three week visit to India and Japan. Based on my recent experiences, I will say bribery problem in India is due to: 1.

Just a week ago I returned to US after three week visit to India and Japan. Based on my recent experiences, I will say bribery problem in India is due to: 1. Lack of sense of community in 'givers'. For example, when a group of people are waiting for something, they don't feel sense of community of 'waiting together'. Everybody is looking a way to be not part of that community enabling 'takers' to solicit bribery so that someone doesn't need to wait with others. 2. Too many laws and bureaucracy that enable more points of solicitation by 'takers'. For example, while traveling on a tourist bus, the bus was stopped by a cop. The cop solicited bribe from driver because the first-aid kit had a partially used tube of ointment and some passengers were hanging newspapers and shawls on windows to block out sunlight. There is no reason to create laws for every little thing giving more opportunities for 'takers'. But there were some positive signs. It appears younger generation is becoming less tolerant for bribery and corruption. It was nice to see that some young people on the bus were trying to take picture of 'corrupt' cop using mobile phones to post online. Of course, these young people and driver were scolded by older people on the bus (lack of sense of community) for delaying the bus as cop took driver far away from bus to avoid being photographed.