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Rex Posted 19 years ago
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In the YouTube era, she reasoned, it is harder to kill a man who has a bit of Internet renown.
"We're creating a fortress around him - a fortress of people," she said in a telephone interview. "I wanted to inform the people that this is happening, that my husband is a whistle-blower, so that it becomes the responsibility of every citizen to protect him."
The result is a small-scale test of whether India's technology revolution, which is empowering tens of millions, can tamp the corruption that hinders India's superpower ambitions. Transparency International, a Berlin-based group that monitors global corruption trends, ranks India below Colombia, Bulgaria and 67 other countries in its most recent index of corruption. In a 2005 study, it concluded that Indians pay more than $5 billion a year in bribes.
"The people who are supposed to be controlling corruption and fighting on behalf of the poor, they are sucking blood out of the poor," Jayashree said in the interview.
She built her Web site, fightcorruption.wikidot.com, with help from her son, a doctorate student in computer science at Delaware State University. On the site she chronicles her husband's case and criticizes the government. An aficionado of India's new right-to-information laws, she has acquired and uploaded reams of documents.
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Is it correct to write 'tamp the corruption'?
I would write stem the corruption or prevent the corruption.
It is correct to say he has a doctorate in computer science.
Is it correct to write 'a doctorate student' ?
I would write doctoral dissertation/student.
Your thoughts are welcome.
"We're creating a fortress around him - a fortress of people," she said in a telephone interview. "I wanted to inform the people that this is happening, that my husband is a whistle-blower, so that it becomes the responsibility of every citizen to protect him."
The result is a small-scale test of whether India's technology revolution, which is empowering tens of millions, can tamp the corruption that hinders India's superpower ambitions. Transparency International, a Berlin-based group that monitors global corruption trends, ranks India below Colombia, Bulgaria and 67 other countries in its most recent index of corruption. In a 2005 study, it concluded that Indians pay more than $5 billion a year in bribes.
"The people who are supposed to be controlling corruption and fighting on behalf of the poor, they are sucking blood out of the poor," Jayashree said in the interview.
She built her Web site, fightcorruption.wikidot.com, with help from her son, a doctorate student in computer science at Delaware State University. On the site she chronicles her husband's case and criticizes the government. An aficionado of India's new right-to-information laws, she has acquired and uploaded reams of documents.
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Is it correct to write 'tamp the corruption'?
I would write stem the corruption or prevent the corruption.
It is correct to say he has a doctorate in computer science.
Is it correct to write 'a doctorate student' ?
I would write doctoral dissertation/student.
Your thoughts are welcome.
Top answer
Rex In the YouTube era, she reasoned, it is harder to kill a man who has a bit of Internet renown. "We're creating a fortress around him - a fortress of people," she said in a telephone interview. " The result is a small-scale test of whether India's technology revolution, which is empowering tens of millions, can tamp the corruption that hinders India's superpower ambitions.
- Rex In the YouTube era, she reasoned, it is harder to kill a man who has a bit of Internet renown.
- "We're creating a fortress around him - a fortress of people," she said in a telephone interview.
- " The result is a small-scale test of whether India's technology revolution, which is empowering tens of millions, can tamp the corruption that hinders India's superpower ambitions.
- Transparency International, a Berlin-based group that monitors global corruption trends, ranks India below Colombia, Bulgaria and 67 other countries in its most recent index of corruption.
- In a 2005 study, it concluded that Indians pay more than $5 billion a year in bribes.
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RexIn the YouTube era, she reasoned, it is harder to kill a man who has a bit of Internet renown.
"We're creating a fortress around him - a fortress of people," she said in a telephone interview. "I wanted to inform the people that this is happening, that my husband is a whistle-blower, so that it becomes the responsibility of every citizen to protect him."
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