From VIR SANGHVI's article in today's (Sunday, 31 Oct 2010) Indian Express: In the old days, corruption scandals would follow a familiar pattern - a minister taking a bribe from a businessman for some favour. But now a new pattern of corruption is emerging. The CWG Loot and Adarsh Building Society scam. Distinctive features of the new scams and corruption are : # Nothing is sacred any longer. People will make money out of anything with a complete absence of shame. Nothing is sacred, not the CWG and India's prestige, not the sacrifices of our martyrs. # The hallmark of the new corruption is that people will defile anything in their greed for big bucks. # Once upon a time it was the politicians who had a monopoly on corruption. Now people from all fields - sports administrators, local Govt officials, bureaucrats in case of CWG, and Generals, and Admirals in case of ABS. Gs and As felt no shame in misusing the names of Kargil martyrs to get flats worth crores allot...