Ravi Ramaswamy Parthasarathy perfected the art of networking and science of logical persuasion. He carefully built contacts in financial, political, bureaucratic and business...
ByAlam SrinivasOctober 7, 2018EVERY scandal needs a villain, rather a hero-turned-rogue. In fact, what a scintillating scam requires is an anti-hero, who combines the traits of...
ByAlam SrinivasOctober 7, 2018The mismatch or the leverage paint used to hide the widening cracks IN most cases, the problem generally lies with over-leverage, or creating...
ByAlam SrinivasOctober 7, 2018BY the third quarter of the 18th century, there was one word in Britain that was both loved and hated, and reviled and...
ByAlam SrinivasSeptember 12, 2018GORDON Gekko has emerged as one of those movie characters that some people love, but hate to love. The rest, of course, loathe...
ByAlam SrinivasApril 15, 2018A civil servant, generally, is a Master (pardon the gender bias) of Manipulation. She (bias corrected) is, generally, adept at the art of...
ByAlam SrinivasApril 15, 2018KUCHCH din to gujaro Gujarat main! Only then can you visualise the entrepreneurial spirit of money-making adventures that grips the soul of a...
ByAlam SrinivasMarch 9, 2018THE ugly face-off and the violent fallout between the Civil Service and Delhi government remind us of EV Lucas’ short story, Face on...
ByAlam SrinivasMarch 9, 2018IT’S either the biggest fraud in financial history or the biggest revolution in human civilisation. In a few years, it will either trade...
ByAlam SrinivasJanuary 26, 2018TWENTY-FIVE years ago, when Palaniappan Chidambaram was the Commerce Minister, he claimed that he was the bigger and better reformer than Manmohan Singh,...
ByAlam SrinivasOctober 14, 2017