It has become common practice in India to blame Swiss banks for keeping Indian treasures hidden. I would suggest it is for Indian government and civil activists to establish the facts first. In repeating unfounded allegations and citing gossip, the activists distract the attention from true problem and real culprits.
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My recent meetings with Indian entrepreneurs often run into a common theme : loss of value system and integrity among a growing number of young managers.
I made it a point this time to explore the depth and extent of this problem that had so far dominated informal discussions only. No less than fourteen friends and [...]
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The titillating cables from US diplomats around the world, leaked to press and public by Julian Assange of wikileaks will keep making news for months in newspapers and web sites around the world.
Good writers can work reams of commentary and analysis for years off of leaked secret cables. Such information and facts would otherwise take [...]
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By Ajay Goyal
Celebrity journalists of Delhi’s English language media are having to explain themselves after an expose of their taped conversations with tainted lobbyist Niira Radia, who is under investigation by tax authorities for alleged money laundering. Listening to the high intrigue on those tapes is like watching unavoidable and unseemly sight around railway tracks of Delhi [...]
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Tempers often run high in India. People throw tantrums over non issues – all the time. Where else on this earth young men burn buses and then immolate themselves because their favourite 74 year old film star dies a natural death. There is more emotion in real India than in most ridiculous Latin American soap [...]
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By Ajay Goyal
Most rich residents of Delhi will escape to Thailand during Commonwealth Games. 71 countries have been invited to a city that is uninhabitable. Other Delhi residents will have to hide in their homes because there will be no public transport and no way of getting anywhere. Overzealous security will create traffic chaos. Offices [...]
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100 TV channels and over a 1000 newspapers of India are replete with images and stories of abominable conditions in Delhi days before 71 nation commonwealth “olympics.”
But it is not just the games stadiums and village or projects started by the government agencies that are an embarrassing mess. All of Delhi is. Posh residential areas, rich [...]
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My article To End Indian Bureaucracy was met with the usual cycle of denial and shrugging shoulders from numerous Indian friends. There is seething anger in every section of society at the state of affairs. It is manifesting itself as a Maoist Naxal insurgency in 220 districts of India. They have killed more than 200 [...]
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The hellish conditions of New Delhi and daily revelations of corruption as the city races to complete constructions projects started eight years ago for Commonwealth Games raises questions about how India is governed. It brings into focus the need for a complete new model of management in Indian government and corporation.
India is ruled in a [...]
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Barack Obama’s approval ratings are Bush-sized just after 18 months in office. A disaster on biblical scale is unfolding in the US Gulf. What nature has built over billions of years is being destroyed by Big oil in three months. A whole continent of cement and steel is in despair. Millions are out [...]
