Ashis Nandy, 2013. Most of the Corrupt From SC/STs, OBCs: Ashis Nandy, http://www.outlookindia.com/newswire/story/most-of-the-corrupt-from-scsts-obcs-ashis-nandy/788010 Outlook India
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It is a fact that most of the corrupt come from OBCs and Scheduled Castes and now increasingly the Scheduled Tribes. I will give an example. One of the states with the least amount of corruption is state of West Bengal when the CPI(M) was there. And I must draw attention to the fact that in the last 100 years, nobody from OBC, SC and ST has come anywhere near to power. It is an absolutely clean state.

— Ashis Nandy on West Bengal

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "It is a fact that most of the corrupt come from OBCs and Scheduled Castes and now increasingly the Scheduled Tribes. I will give an example. One of the states with the least amount of corruption is state of West Bengal when the CPI(M) was there. And I must draw attention to the fact that in the last 100 years, nobody from OBC, SC and ST has come anywhere near to power. It is an absolutely clean state." in the context of "Ashis Nandy, 2013. Most of the Corrupt From SC/STs, OBCs: Ashis Nandy, http://www.outlookindia.com/newswire/story/most-of-the-corrupt-from-scsts-obcs-ashis-nandy/788010 Outlook India" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Ashis Nandy

About Ashis Nandy

Ashis Nandy (born 13 May 1937) is an Indian political psychologist, social theorist, futurist and critic.