The Indian Humpty Dumpty.

"Trust both lowers the cost of every exchange or interaction and is associated with higher economic growth." But, the most recent round of the World Values Survey found that "only 17% of Indians said most people can be trusted, placing India 53rd of roughly 90 economies." "Most people" refers to a different caste or community. "Within one's own group, trust is strong and economically valuable," wrote Ramanan Laxminarayanan. One very strong reason may be that, "As many as 250 (46%) of the 542 newly elected members of Parliament (MPs) had declared criminal cases against them at the time of filing their nominations, data from the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) charges." Also, "MPs from as many as 504 out of these 541 seats had assets worth Rs 10 million or more, with 30 of them declaring total assets Rs 1 billion or more," wrote Manjul Paul. Because of the protection against criminal prosecution on being elected an MP, as well as spending well above legal limits to win an election, they resort to lies, denials and force to cling on the power. This is proven by the fact that no one resigns in India, either because they disagree with Dear Leader or because of loss of reputation, while there is a long list of people who resigned from high posts in the second Trump administration. Marty Makary resigned in protest while Lori Chavez-DeRemer resigned "following workplace misconduct allegations." wikipedia. The only minister who was forced to resign by weeks of protest was the Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan (BBC) but only after government goons viciously beat up protesters with wooden sticks, batons and tear gas and caused permanent life-altering injuries by firing pellet guns (BBC) deliberately aimed at unarmed students. To prevent any recurrence, the government has banned all protests at Jantar Mantar in the center of Delhi and designated three other sites which charge high fees for use and are remote enough to be ignored. BBC. "No country is a better exemplar of our global democratic recession than India. India's democracy confounded legions of naysayers by growing more stable over its first seven decades. India's democratic deepening happened in formal ways, through the consolidation of civilian rule over the military as well as decades of vibrant multiparty competition, and informal ways, through strengthening of norms around Electoral Commission independence," wrote Maya Tudor. The BJP is like a hermit crab which uses the shell of a dead animal to protect itself. "When our Prime Minister and foreign minister travel abroad to lecture the world and receive its medals, they do not use the same rhetoric as they do in India." "They go to the United Nations and other fora under a Nehruvian carapace." "They do not tell the world that inside India their policy is bulldozer and beef lynching and CAA and NRC and love jihad," wrote Aakar Patel. Not to forget pellet guns. "The day after his 2014 election victory, Narendra Modi was filmed aboard a private jet owned by business magnate Gautam Adani," showing that "the relationship between these two men - one the figurehead of Hindu supremacism, the other of accumulating wealth - has been solid for two decades, a symbol of two decades of crony capitalism on a scale unprecedented in India's history." Le Monde. Congress leader Jairam Ramesh suggested that the "real equation to consider is 'Modi + Adani = Modani'." TOI. When you can't trust your government or businesses you rely on those within your group or those vouched for by an acquaintance. Trust is Humpty Dumpty. Once broken, can't be fixed.