True, we should stop being corrupt ourselves.

But fish rots from the top, as the saying goes. If you stop the top people from being corrupt, they will themselves make sure there's no corruption down below.

We're corrupt because most of us are forced to be, and some of us indulge in it. Once corruption stops at the top, they won't permit junior officials to be corrupt. And those of us who are forced to be pay up will stop paying. Still a few may indulge in corruption, but they will do it under constant fear, and many of them will be caught.

Starting at the bottom is not only infeasible, because there are crores of us, but also stopping lower level corruption won't stop corruption at the top.

But equating 2G, Adarsh, CWG, Fodder, scams with common man's corruption is unfair. If the system is tightened at the top, it will stop at all levels.