The reaction of the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, to the country-wide outcry against corruption and the Government's seeming unconcern is that there is no magic wand to get rid of it. A Prime Minister should be the picture of decisiveness and exude the confidence that he is determined to fight to a successful finish the evils besieging the Government, in the spirit of Pericles, about whom it was said that even when he perished, he perished great.