Seshan preaches Tennyson

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield "� Tennyson's words were repeated and resonated through the lecture of T N Seshan, former chief election commissioner of India, who was here at the Indian School of Business (ISB) on Sunday to speak on 'Corporate governance and ethics: Lessons for Indian entrepreneurs'.

Speaking at length on his career as a civil servant and the history of India, Seshan remarked that the 'elementary law of corruption' postulates that wherever there is sugar, there is a fly.

He exhorted students not to yield to pressure.

To a query from a student that the question of bribing to get access to basic infrastructure in the Indian industrial set-up was a widely debated issue and that the dilemma not just lay in the decision not to bribe but also being responsible to hundreds of others employed, Seshan said, "You are here at the ISB to occupy positions of higher authority and it is possible to set the tone for the organisation that you set up or are to be a part of."