🌑 WISDOM DROP-28

“Regulation is not power — it is the discipline that protects power from corrupting itself.”

— IAS Monk

WD-28 — Poetic Reflection

When an institution meant to guard the market begins to cast a shadow over the very trust it was created to protect, something deeper than policy must be repaired.
Laws can be amended. Guidelines can be rewritten. But trust — once fractured — must be rebuilt grain by grain, with transparency, humility, and the courage to expose one’s own flaws.

Markets do not collapse because of volatility; they collapse because of silence, secrecy, and unseen hands shaping visible fortunes.
It is not insider trading alone that injures an economy — it is the invisible belief among millions that the game was never fair to begin with.

And so SEBI stands at a threshold:
to evolve from a regulator of papers and procedures
into a guardian of ethical clarity.
To show investors that integrity is not a slogan but an everyday practice — lived, recorded, disclosed, and recused when needed.

For no market is stronger than the conscience of the institution that oversees it.
And no regulator commands respect unless it first learns to regulate itself.

If India must rise as a global financial power, then its guardians must shine brighter than the markets they supervise.
For in the architecture of trust, ethics is the foundation — and transparency is the light.