That Pranab Mukherjee is a wily old political fox is not exactly breaking news. But here is yet another example of his shrewdness. You recall Pranabda’s Budget was panned for days because it mentioned disinvestment only in passing? Everybody piled on saying, ‘oh, there you go; this government has chickened out of divestment even though the Left got licked in the general elections’. Where will...
There’s not much going for the BJP these days. The bad news at the elections has been replaced with the good press for Congress and its government which is even more painful. So it needs the occasional trick to sidle back into the news. The BJP dug up an 11-year old letter of a French city mayor offering to erect a memorial of Veer Savarkar. Members, including LK Advani, sought to portray in....gif)
Imagine Mukesh Ambani flying economy class by Air India rather than his personal Boeing. Imagine Ratan Tata getting off his private jet and hailing a taxi to North Block for a meeting with finance minister Pranab Mukherjee. Or local boy and telecom tycoon Sunil Mittal taking a public transport bus to the same meeting. Of course, that’s ridiculous, but listen to this: while corporate India...
