'Political parties are the most corrupt in India' was the conclusion of a recent survey conducted at the 2009 Global Corruption Barometer. More than half (58% to be precise) of the participants felt this way. Second in line was bureaucracy (13%), followed by the parliament and legislature (10%), business and private sector (9%) and judiciary (3%). But isn't this already a well known fact? As the Prime Minister said in a speech in 2006, “I firmly believe that we must set personal standards of integrity as public servants and the message should flow from the top downwards and not the other way round.” Amen to that!