NEW DELHI, Feb. 17 -- Socialism, in its purest form, has never been successful. The premise of such a framework is that everyone acts altruistically, even if they do not believe in it. Such a situation only becomes self-sustaining when there is a compulsion to appear genuine in public. Proponents of this system refuse to accept the liberal view that people are individualistic and self-serving. No wonder then that Socialism survives today as assorted versions of personalised chimerical monsters that have no likeness to the original idea.

Every movement against corruption bears contours of unstinting beneficence, but deep within the umbrage of its shadows lie emissaries, awaiting their chance at creating mischief. Such scenes have oft been...