W’end Links – Politics Special
Start the weekend with this provocative piece by Atany Dey. A brief excerpt from Whistling in the Dark about the Future: Gurcharan Das writes in the Times of India (10th May) that “The Future...
Category: Corruption in India
Kaun Banega Crorepati?*
Anil Bairwal of ADR released their “Updated Analysis of Lok Sabha MPs” – Criminal, Financial,Educational Background yesterday in which I found this nugget of information: Total number of crorepati MPs in the present Lok...
W’end Links: Celeb Crusades, Armed Intrusion, Bofors
Start this weekend with P Sainath at his best on Celeb crusades & the death of politics. A very brief excerpt: The Lok Sabha constituencies of Mumbai averaged over 60 per cent voting between 1957...
Did someone say it is “election season”?
Connect the dots. …The Interpol has removed the red-corner notice issued against Ottavio Quattrocchi, an Italian businessman who is being sought in India for criminal charges for acting as a conduit for bribes in...
Of Criminals and Elections
This post was prompted by a question posed by Suresh in an email to me a few weeks ago. Suresh wrote: I think Arun Gawali is a CONVICTED criminal, albeit he has possibly an...
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