To understand the exponential increase in corruption in India perhaps we should turn our attention to Italy. Few countries in the world can boast of such famous criminal organisations as the Sicilian Mafia, Sicilian Cosa Nostra, Apulian Sacra Corona Unita, Neapolitan Camorra and, perhaps the most feared today, the Ndragheta. Italy also has the distinction of a succession of extremely corrupt Prime Ministers. Mario Andreotti was accused of being involved in the 1979 murder of a journalist, Mino Pecorelli who was investigating his role in the kidnapping of former Prime Minister, Aldo Moro. He survived on appeal. Bettino Craxi was sentenced to 27 years in jail for corruption but avoided justice by escaping to Hammamet in Tunis in 1994 where he died in 2000. He never returned to Italy. However, none of the previous Prime Ministers even comes close to the list of charges against the present incumbent, Silvio Berlusconi. He is thought to have entered politics to escape bankruptcy and evade charges of corruption at which he has been spectacularly successful. He has been accused of mafia collusion, tax fraud, corruption and bribery of police officers and judges. David Mills, husband of UK Cabinet Minister Tessa Jowell, was sentenced to four and a half years in prison for having taken a bribe of 400000 pounds from Berlusconi. So far Berlusconi has been able to escape justice by shamelessly changing the statute of limitations for bringing charges. However his sex life, especially with juveniles, is catching up with him. He may finally end up in jail as the ' bunga bunga ' Prime Minister. Our Prime Minister may be alright but what about others.