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From 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,...

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From 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,...

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FROM 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...

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From 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...

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From 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...

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From 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...

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From 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...

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FROM 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...