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V Raghunathan
12 July 2010, 03:23 PM IST
I wrote about the 'state sponsored loot' in this blog on March 16, 2010, saying how the citizens are being systematically swindled by the Central or State Governments. The context, among other things, was the way we are charged multiple life time taxes for a...
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V Raghunathan
01 July 2010, 10:51 AM IST
2035 AD: Yes, we are referring to a time 25 years in the future. Ramalinga Raju of Satyam infamy is nearly 80. He is celebrating. The judgment on his self confessed fraud to the tune of Rs. 7800 odd crore is out - well within a reasonable time going by most...
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V Raghunathan
22 June 2010, 09:58 AM IST
The other day one saw this shocking picture in the newspapers showing a couple of security men carrying a dead Maoist shot in a gun battle in a forest near Lalgarh, West Bengal. Nothing unusual about a picture of some security men bringing back the dead body...
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V Raghunathan
10 June 2010, 12:52 PM IST
Our entire judicial system borders on one big farce. None less than our former Chief Justice of India has likened the Bhopal gas leak tragedy to a car accident. He told one of the TV channels the other day, in justification of his dilution of the...
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V Raghunathan
07 June 2010, 12:01 PM IST
A lot has been said about the Khap panchayat in Haryana on the issue of same-gothra marriages. The overt and covert support from the likes of Navin Jindal and the Chief Minister Hooda to the Khap has only muddied the waters further. So how can the issue be...
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V Raghunathan
18 May 2010, 11:28 AM IST
The role of banks surrounding the reckless disbursal of loans for the non-existent Maytas Hill County apartments of Maytas properties in Hyderabad (TOI, May 16, 10)33 was a problem waiting to happen. In fact the Reserve Bank should have known that this...
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V Raghunathan
04 May 2010, 11:27 PM IST
While I was happy to see the majority of my readers resonating with what I was trying to say in my previous post on the Madhuri Gupta issue, I thought I owed it to some of those who understandably responded in some anger to the same post. “How can one...
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V Raghunathan
28 April 2010, 11:02 PM IST
I have little sympathy with Madhuri Gupta – the Indian mole from foreign services who betrayed the country for revenge or money or both. I am sure most of us are going to express plenty of dismay at the sad development. And the...
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V Raghunathan
20 April 2010, 11:07 AM IST
For someone who four years ago nurtured ambitions to be the UN Secretary General, Shashi Tharoor’s fall has been sadly disgraceful. But he asked for it of course. To be caught in a sweet-heart deal (and you wouldn’t believe me if I said no pun is intended) in...
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V Raghunathan
14 April 2010, 11:20 AM IST
It is strange that our judicial system sees no irony in a judge considered unfit for carrying out his functions in one state being transferred to another. Do people in different states have different tolerance or standards for justice?
First,...
Posted By
V Raghunathan
06 April 2010, 12:27 PM IST
I was speaking at the TEDx Mumbai, an independently organized TED event, on April 3, 10. TED is a US based not-for-profit organization, which organizes some outstanding conferences in Europe and Asia, devoted to "ideas worth spreading". The speakers...
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V Raghunathan
27 March 2010, 10:34 AM IST
The recent fire in Kolkata and the one a few weeks ago in Bangalore are tragic indeed. And yet a second look reveals nearly identical issues with both Stephen Court and Carlton Towers, ranging from disregard of fire safety norms by the residents as well as the...
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V Raghunathan
19 March 2010, 02:59 PM IST
The CBSE’s refusal to allow Pranjay, a Class XII dyslexic student from Chandigarh, to use a calculator in the examination is outrageous and incomprehensible. Equally incomprehensible is the Punjab and Haryana High Court’s refusal to take cognizance of the...
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V Raghunathan
16 March 2010, 12:06 PM IST
We all get swindled day in and day out. But it is one thing to be swindled by a road-side cheat and quite another to be swindled systematically by the Central or State Governments. No, I am not referring to our receiving the tax refund cheques a day before...
Posted By
V Raghunathan
08 March 2010, 12:03 PM IST
The recent announcement by the IIM-Ahmedabad's admissions committee on not admitting students with less than 70 per cent marks in school board exams to the postgraduate program is an unfortunate step that is unclear in its objective and potentially retrograde,...
V Raghunathan, CEO of GMR Varalakshmi Foundation of the GMR Group since 2005, is an adjunct professor at the University of Bocconi, Milan. For nearly two decades till 2001, he was professor of finance & accounting at IIM, Ahmedabad. Between 2001 and 2005, he had two successful corporate stints: president of ING Vysya Bank and managing director of GMR Industries Ltd. He has also been on numerous corporate boards and national-level committees. He has written more than 400 academic papers and popular articles, and 8 books, including the best-seller 'Games Indians Play'. He is also a columnist of long standing. Collecting old and ancient padlocks is his hobby. He has also been a cartoonist with a national daily and played chess at all-India level.
The views expressed in Outraged are the author´s own.
