Although India’s best and biggest corporate scams—from Satyam to Sahara and everything else in between—routinely escape the business papers and business magazines and business channels, for quite a while, the best political reporting has come from The Economic Times. And The Times group is losing no opportunity to drum home the message, even as it…
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26/11, the RSS, the Editor & the Rajya Sabha seat
Last month, Aziz Burney, the influential editor of the Urdu daily Roznama Rashitriya Sahara, owned by Subroto Roy of the Sahara group, published a grovelling front-page apology for linking the RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh) with the 26 November 2008 siege of Bombay. In a box titled “Aziz Burney ki taraf se safaai aur maafi)” (A…
India’s important businessman meets Obama
There were at least 200 guests—ministers, bureaucrats, businessmen, media mavens, et al—at Indian president Pratibha Patil‘s banquet for her visiting American counterpart, Barack H. Obama. Among the tycoons present were Mukesh Ambani and Ratan Tata, and Rahul Bajaj and Sunil Mittal. But two Delhi newspapers, The Indian Express (top) and The Times of India, agree…
We don’t just threaten. We sue. Here’s proof.
Different animals react differently when mauled by the “feral beast“. Outlook Business* did a cover story on Sahara India, the controversial chit fund company which now builds malls and homes, sponsors the Indian cricket team and owns an IPL franchise, and has a strange relationship with Amitabh Bachchan and Anil Ambani, in its August 21…
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