this could very well be a hatchet job on the ambanis, but it is interesting that such a book has been written.
caveat emptor!
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Reliance - The Real Natwar
by Arun Agrawal
Published in March, 2008
Price: Rs.495.00
BOOK DESCRIPTION:
The nexus between big business and politicians in the loot of public
money in India is too well known to require elaboration. Take the case
of Reliance. It is a business house which, when compared to its peers,
has been the focus of the maximum number of controversies, court cases,
investigations etc. It has the additional dubious distinction of being
featured the maximum number of times in the questions asked in
Parliament.
Of course, Reliance has come, one way or the other, to own three percent
of the GDP within a short period of thirty years. The questions is: How?
And this question has been answered in this book. A perusal of the text
of the parliamentary debates makes it very hard to come to any
conclusion other than that the brightest of our parliamentarians were
involved in a cover up for Reliance Industries in a clear cut case of
corruption.
Corruption is easily buried in India: files vanish, honest officers are
transferred, some nominal fining takes place and criminal offences are
compounded. However concealment is not achieved quite so effortlessly at
the international level.
And then again, being caught once - even one single time - would have
been fatal to Reliance. It would have been blacklisted by the government
and treated as an economic pariah.
The universally admired and very sharp and articulate parliamentarians,
Mr.
P. Chidambaram and Mr. Kapil Sibal, both seemed quite blind to the fact
of the bribe paid by Reliance. Or did these two illustrations and
famously intelligent gentlemen cover up for Reliance ?
And yet, there was a time when Mr. Chidambaram ws honourable enough to
resign where he had done no wrong over his controversial investment in
Fairgrowth Financial Services. One wonders whether he will act
honourably once again, and resign - for the omission of the commissions.
One wonders if any of his honourable collagues - the Members of
Parliament - will ask for his resignation? If the common man has lost
faith in all politicians, it ia because the best and the brightest have
often flattered to deceive.
The book is also about the loot of oil wealth - more precious than gold
- of the country and about all the other kinds of loot and tainted
questions over which the name of Reliance seems to mysteriously loom.
The book has been written in the hope that those in power and the media
will be at least a little embarassed and will not let facts of extremely
ugly bribery tiptoe past them so very easily in the future. After all,
there's no harm in hoping.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
1. The Scam
2. The Cookie Crumbles
3. The Commission of Omissions
4. The LAW and the Law Makers
5. The Minions of Law
6. And the Fourth Estate
7. The Reliance Saga
8. The Lok Sabha Debate
9. Pathak Report Extracts
Book your orders now.
Best Regards
Manoj Shah
Greenleaf Book-Shop
Bliss Compound, Nivetia Road, Malad (East), Mumbai-97, INDIA
Tel.: (91-22) 28770081 / 28786269
Visitus: www.grenleaf.com
From: R
-----Original Message-----
From: Greenleaf BookShop [mailto:books@grenleaf.com]
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 11:02 AM
To:
Hi
Reliance - The Real Natwar
by Arun Agrawal
Published in March, 2008
Price: Rs.495.00
BOOK DESCRIPTION:
The nexus between big business and politicians in the loot of public
money in India is too well known to require elaboration. Take the case
of Reliance. It is a business house which, when compared to its peers,
has been the focus of the maximum number of controversies, court cases,
investigations etc. It has the additional dubious distinction of being
featured the maximum number of times in the questions asked in
Parliament.
Of course, Reliance has come, one way or the other, to own three percent
of the GDP within a short period of thirty years. The questions is: How?
And this question has been answered in this book. A perusal of the text
of the parliamentary debates makes it very hard to come to any
conclusion other than that the brightest of our parliamentarians were
involved in a cover up for Reliance Industries in a clear cut case of
corruption.
Corruption is easily buried in India: files vanish, honest officers are
transferred, some nominal fining takes place and criminal offences are
compounded. However concealment is not achieved quite so effortlessly at
the international level.
And then again, being caught once - even one single time - would have
been fatal to Reliance. It would have been blacklisted by the government
and treated as an economic pariah.
The universally admired and very sharp and articulate parliamentarians,
Mr.
P. Chidambaram and Mr. Kapil Sibal, both seemed quite blind to the fact
of the bribe paid by Reliance. Or did these two illustrations and
famously intelligent gentlemen cover up for Reliance ?
And yet, there was a time when Mr. Chidambaram ws honourable enough to
resign where he had done no wrong over his controversial investment in
Fairgrowth Financial Services. One wonders whether he will act
honourably once again, and resign - for the omission of the commissions.
One wonders if any of his honourable collagues - the Members of
Parliament - will ask for his resignation? If the common man has lost
faith in all politicians, it ia because the best and the brightest have
often flattered to deceive.
The book is also about the loot of oil wealth - more precious than gold
- of the country and about all the other kinds of loot and tainted
questions over which the name of Reliance seems to mysteriously loom.
The book has been written in the hope that those in power and the media
will be at least a little embarassed and will not let facts of extremely
ugly bribery tiptoe past them so very easily in the future. After all,
there's no harm in hoping.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
1. The Scam
2. The Cookie Crumbles
3. The Commission of Omissions
4. The LAW and the Law Makers
5. The Minions of Law
6. And the Fourth Estate
7. The Reliance Saga
8. The Lok Sabha Debate
9. Pathak Report Extracts
Book your orders now.
Best Regards
Manoj Shah
Greenleaf Book-Shop
Bliss Compound, Nivetia Road, Malad (East), Mumbai-97, INDIA
Tel.: (91-22) 28770081 / 28786269
Visitus: www.grenleaf.com
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