We know about corruption in New York, do we know about ours?

In March 2020, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo denied hospital treatment to elderly patients suffering from coronavirus infections and then understated the number of deaths in nursing homes to help fellow Democrat Joe Biden win the presidential election in November. Cuomo has been accused of sexual harassment by several women in his staff. Despite all these serious accusations against him Cuomo has refused to resign till today. "The global media has heckled, mocked and ridiculed every step that India has taken during the pandemic," fulminates Abhishek Banerjee. "And yet, there is a year-long silence around thousands of elderly people being sent to their deaths in New York." "We have a term for this in India, taken from Bihar of the 1990s. It is called Jungle Raj." "The streets of new York now belong to murderers, car thieves and armed criminal gangs." "Because of mental hang-ups going back to our colonial past, we tend to give way too much weight to Western media opinion about India." Just because China is persecuting Uighurs because they are Muslims, does it mean that India should do the same? According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), India came in at 140th position in the list of nominal per capita GDP in US dollars in 2020. Not just foreigners, we Indians are groaning under the weight of corruption and tyranny. "The lower base of our administrative system is politically so powerful that one can not implement rule of law as a whole, despite the will to do it," wrote Shashi Shekhar. "In our system, only the faces change, neither such 'Dastoor' (convention), nor 'Dastoori' (kickbacks)." "After the Mumbai blasts, a committee headed by former home secretary N.N. Vohra prepared a report about the nexus between criminals, bureaucrats and politicians. Only 11 pages were made public two years later, of the 110-page report submitted in 1993." "The Supreme Court held that the government was not obliged to disclose the report." "Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government did not consult key ministries and states while imposing the world's strictest coronavirus lockdown a year ago, according to an investigation by the BBC's Jugal Purohit and Arjun Parmar. The day the entire nation was locked up there were only 519 confirmed cases and 10 reported deaths in India. Unlocking was started on 8 June 2020 and has proceeded in phases till today, but even as the restrictions were being lifted the number of new infections were soaring to nearly 100,000 per day. Millions of migrant workers suddenly thrown out of work decided to walk, along with little children, hundreds of miles back to their villages. Hundreds died of starvation, exhaustion and pre-existing diseases. Thousands were killed in accidents on roads. Text messages between Indian Republic TV anchor Arnab Goswami and former head of a TV-rating company Partho Dasgupta showed that "Goswami had prior knowledge of the (Balakot) attack and that it was designed to drum up support for Modi in his re-election bid in pending parliamentary elections". We have a list of wrongdoing in New York. Journalists trying to disclose corruption in India will be in great personal danger. Protecting criminals exposes us to crimes. We are hapless.