He described the "pressure and stress" of participating in years of corruption, of contending with "greedy" officials who jacked up bribe demands.
Afghans would complain of bribes demanded by officials, deaths caused in air strikes by international forces, but very few wanted the Taliban to come back.
Mr. Farani said he had refused to pay the bribes demanded by the judge in the case, who in turn had refused to settle his case.
But what really inflames the public are the routine abuses by the "flies" — the bribes demanded by low-level officials for medical care and promotions and access to schooling.
In a month spent here, by far the most frequent complaint -- voiced by teachers, restaurant owners or doctors with private clinics -- centers on the pervasive bribes demanded by the security services.
The election fiasco apart, corrupt land grabs, infrastructure project kickbacks, and bribes demanded by the police (which disproportionately impacted poorer people) were particularly damaging to public confidence, he said.
Mr. Dorsey was also accused of accepting bribes, demanding sex from a female bonding agent, ordering deputies to work for his private security company at taxpayer expense and using deputies to run family errands.
And indeed India ranks a poor 69th out of the 90 countries rated for corruption by Transparency International, a Berlin-based organisation.India's corruption is engendered in part by no-holds-barred elections, which cost candidates and parties vast amounts of money that can most easily be raised through bribes demanded for favours.
When he was a tax officer, and saw that he could make no impact by working within the system, he started Parivartan; when Parivartan's small-scale fixes — mostly countering bribes demanded to settle electricity and billing disputes — left him unsatisfied, he campaigned for the Right to Information Act.
Once local mother, Zarghona, tells me her son is unemployed and can't afford to pay the bribes demanded to get a job.
