If you want to know how deep is the human root of corruption, and indeed, how it has little to do with education or poverty, probe deeper into account books of desi college festivals — or any major expenses incurred by students' unions.

One of the years in my college at Delhi University (DU), the T-shirts ordered from the students' union, at a pretty steep rate, turned out to be so shoddy that they shrunk to above the waistline in a single wash.