| Perhaps the necessary adjustments are
easier in this case. The world seems to be coming back in a curious way to old ideas.
Sutram need not necessarily, though it generally does, mean relatives. It is inclusive of
others received as dependants on the same terms as relatives. The word literally means
"those that surround."
I.e., forcing one's relatives on the state.
It is sharing one's own lawful possessions with them and not defrauding the State in the
interest of one's relatives, which is nepotism. The latter is, alas, that which prevails
in countries prematurely forced from the culture into individualist civilization by
adventitious circumstances. The instinct and moral compulsion of helping one's relatives
are they're, being an inheritance of the old culture, but find outlet in a wrong channel. |
