Two Peas in a Pod.

Goa, India The world's two biggest democracies, India and the United States, are going through remarkably similar bouts of introspection. Both countries are witnessing grass-roots movements against corruption and excess. The difference is that Indians are protesting what is illegal -- a system requiring bribes at every level of governance to get anything done. And Americans are protesting what is legal -- a system of Supreme Court-sanctioned bribery in the form of campaign donations that have enabled the financial-services industry to effectively buy the U.S. Congress, and both political parties, and thereby resist curbs on risk-taking. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]