THE wheel spins, swings, and sweeps in a frenzied manner. The economic ball jumps, bobs, and moves—up and down, straight and back, sideways,...
ByAlam SrinivasMarch 4, 2020REMEMBER the 1991 Jain diaries hawala case, which involved alleged bribes to politicians from several parties. Or the recent cases, when two of...
ByAlam SrinivasMarch 4, 2020LOOK at some of unsavory global facts. There are possibly two dozen nations in the world that earn more than 50 per cent...
ByAlam SrinivasFebruary 5, 2020THE GDR (global depository receipt) scam, which was perpetrated by dozens of companies between 2002 and 2014, was as simple as it gets....
ByAlam SrinivasFebruary 5, 2020IN the 1980s, the Indian public got to know of two sets of strange offshore entities that were based in global tax havens....
ByAlam SrinivasJanuary 7, 2020FROM the onset, the British Empire, initially through the East India Company (EIC), was founded on, and steeped in, corruption. As the first...
ByAlam SrinivasDecember 9, 2019ON August 18, 1993, in the Conference Hall of New Delhi’s Sanchar Bhawan, which housed the telecom ministry, the bids were opened for...
ByAlam SrinivasDecember 8, 2019A decade ago, Business Week, a leading American business magazine, dubbed several of the US-based Indian software firms as “High-Tech Sweatshops”. These were...
ByAlam SrinivasNovember 5, 2019IN 2014, Nix, a senior person in Cambridge Analytica, the defiled and defunct UK-based firm that was accused of manipulating elections in the...
ByAlam SrinivasNovember 3, 2019In the 1980s, an entire generation, or possibly two, read avidly about Mr Q, a Sicilian-Italian who was publicly known, but there was...
ByAlam SrinivasSeptember 3, 2019