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CorruptionFrom Raj to Rafale 8 : Conspiracy of complicity
AS we saw in the previous two pieces, Indira Gandhi dictated the new rules of corruption, which ensured that every single government deal,...
CorruptionFrom Raj to Rafale 7 : A Mother’s Son & Son of God
FORTY-FIVE minutes after one of the largest branches of the State Bank of India at New Delhi’s Parliament Street opened on May 24,...
CorruptionFROM RAJ TO RAFALE 6 : LICENCE TO LOOT
IT is often, but wrongly, assumed that India’s first Prime Minister, Jawahar Lal Nehru, was against the private sector. This wasn’t true, at...
CorruptionFrom Raj to Rafale 5 : The Mundhra case
IT started with a follow-up question that politicians ask after a newspaper or news channel report. On September 4, 1957, a Lok Sabha...
CorruptionFrom Raj to Rafale 4 : Mahatma and Millionaires
Today, a whiff of crony capitalism, i.e. a politician helping a businessman or vice versa, results in a scandal. But in the pre-Independence...
CorruptionFrom Raj to Rafale 3 : Opium of India Inc
KARL Marx said that religion was the opium of the masses. What most people don’t know is that he delved into the moral...
CorruptionFrom Raj to Rafale 2 : The Thug of Bombay
EVERY 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...
CorruptionFROM RAJ TO RAFALE 1 : Clive of Corruption
BY the third quarter of the 18th century, there was one word in Britain that was both loved and hated, and reviled and...
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