It's going to be business as usual in a few weeks, a few months. But while it is the governing coalition led by the Hindu BJP that is under pressure now, ordinary Indians see it as a wider problem. This is not a question of regulation of one government. It is really a problem and this problem should be tackled in the right way. BBC News Online's Sanjoy Majumder says it is hard to underestimate the scale of the problem.
Corruption pervades nearly every aspect of Indian life.
It was deeply upsetting and distressing for most of us as the story kept unfolding. Sitaram Yechury of the Communist Party Marxist is one of many opposition voices now calling on the government to resign. And he voices a widespread feeling that nowhere are the prospects riper for making an illegal buck than in the defence business. What we see in this entire episode is right from the lowest rung of the officials involved till the highest level. There seems to be a certain system that has evolved, particularly in this area of defence deals which is really frightening.