The Man Who Understood Bureaucracy
In the Kendudžar district of India, somewhere where dust lies on everything and bureaucracy lies on dust, a man took a shovel.
TL;DR
- An illiterate Indian farmer was unable to access his deceased sister's bank account.
- The bank required the account holder's personal presence and a death certificate.
- The man dug up his sister's body and brought it to the bank to prove her death.
- The incident led to the resolution of the case, with the money to be paid out.
- The author critiques bureaucratic procedures that fail to understand human realities.