Category: Corruption in India

Is India a “Flailing State”? – Excerpts

Dear All, I am reproducing below some excerpts from a fascinating article that was forwarded to me last week by Sachin. It is deeply thought-provoking and raises a number of disturbing questions… Please read...

How to earn Rs 10 crores+ a month

More than two years ago, in a post dealing with politics and corruption, I wrote: This is a subject with such rich pickings (pun unintended)…that I am seriously considering a series on “How to...

Ministers behaving badly…

… as in paying “taxes” to “militants”… or is it “protection money”? If you ever wondered how bad the situation is in the North-East, look no further.  Courtesy this news-report by Rahul Karmakar (HT)*:...

Tackling Corruption over Diet Coke and Salad…

At the monthly meeting of our political discussion group in London last week, we talked about “Corruption in India“… While browsing around the net for more information on this topic, I stumbled on the...