PatnaDaily Kaushik Basu is so much in awe of his "novel", and "radical" idea to stop corrupt behaviour of public servants that one does not have the heart to administer even a small dose of pragmatic reality. Intellectuals tend to be simple minded folks locating their premises and theses in a world, which readily agrees to be quantified and categorised, where human beings behave according to the rules of game theory etc. But ordinary people know that much of human behaviour is resistant to such predictive models. Kaushik Basu’s idea is very simple. Allow the bribe taker to accept his bribe. After the criminal act has been accomplished and the objective of the bribe giver has been achieved, the state which will henceforth be in a perpetual state of conspiracy with every bribe giver of the land- "harassment bribe" giver only - will immediately don the role of the avenger and not only prosecute the bribe taker on his testimony but it will also recover the bribe paid and restore it to the bribe giver. An all encompassing gigantic trap shall be in place for the public servants of all shades and in all situations all the year round. . "Revolution", says Bernard Shaw, "does not end tyranny; it merely shifts the burden to other shoulders." Henceforth the burden of harassment shall be carried by the hapless public servant instead of the honest citizen, as it would be evident presently