{"id":9763,"date":"2010-11-14T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/11\/14\/documenting-the-world-of-bribes-in-india\/"},"modified":"2010-11-14T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-14T12:00:00","slug":"documenting-the-world-of-bribes-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/11\/14\/documenting-the-world-of-bribes-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Documenting The World of Bribes In India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/ipaidabribe.com\">ipaidabribe.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>INDIA, November 2010: Fighting an ingrained culture of corruption, the new website http:\/\/ipaidabribe.com gives a voice to thousands of people who felt powerless, angry and abused when asked for illegal money. It has thousands of testimonies in sections, &#8220;I paid a bribe,&#8221; &#8220;I didn&#8217;t pay a bribe,&#8221; &#8220;I didn&#8217;t have to pay a bribe&#8221; and &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to pay a bribe.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The amount in rupees of each bribe request is reported, creating a fascinating assessment of the regrettable practice. It also has sections offering tips to protect yourself and avoid falling prey to unscrupulous officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: ipaidabribe.com INDIA, November 2010: Fighting an ingrained culture of corruption, the new website http:\/\/ipaidabribe.com gives a voice to thousands,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}