I was appalled to read a recent report about how India’s economic growth is not enough to accommodate the millions of young people who join the workforce each year. How could this be, I wondered, given that LinkedIn.com appeared to be bursting at the seams with job listings? What shocked me even more about the report in question was the suggestion that many of our educated youth are now being forced to become scammers because of an inability to find jobs that pay them a decent wage.

First of all, I have to point out that scammers do not exist in India. We don’t even know what scams mean because of how honest and God-fearing we are. It is part of our culture. If these so-called scammers do exist, they are obviously foreigners masquerading as Indians to give us a bad reputation. The world has long recognised us as kind, peace-loving, sincere people who would never do anything illegal for something as crude and unimportant as money. Throughout history, ‘Indians and honesty’ have gone together like ‘bread and butter’, the one complimenting the other. It’s why we also have the world’s cleanest politicians representing us, none of whom have ever broken the law.