Our Indian traditions always said that your life is your own “karma”. This statement has a very far reaching consequence in the fact that you are what you practice in your life. In this context living a life with integrity is a necessity rather than “just a way of life”. This brings us to the next question “what is integrity”. According to Oxford dictionary integrity is “the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles”. But for me, integrity is being always conscious of your actions as well as its results and acting out in a way which is for the greater good of people around you including yourself. This world is full of choices on which you are never answerable to anyone. During those choices you can choose to act with integrity only if you are conscious of how these choices will affect you and others around you. To understand this principle let us take an example of academic integrity which all of us would definitely have violated at least once in our lives. From my ow...