Tagged: Bofors

If there is only ONE thing you read today, make sure this is it

From Sh S Gurumurthy‘s damning expose of missing millions, pay-offs and unaccounted wealth, “Zero tolerance, secret billions”, some excerpts (emphasis added): …Following Rajiv and forgetting Indira, Sonia Gandhi proclaimed ‘zero tolerance’ to corruption at...

Burying Bofors

As I was clearing my backlog of articles from past few weeks, I chanced upon this interview of Digvijay Singh by Karan Thapar. Read the excerpts against the backdrop of events leading up to...

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...