Many a railway officer who has worked earlier in the Railways wonders how Laluji produced his magic numbers. But if the CAG (comptroller and auditor general) and the prime minister—a good man like Dr Manmohan Singh—as well as the deputy chairman of the Planning Commission, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, and not to forget the smart Chidambaramsaab who was the finance minister at that time, allowed...
Good Cover Story (Moneylife, 22 October 2009). Really great analysis. Keep it up.
Rashmi Ray, by email
The Do Not Call Registry (DNCR) is a failure and a farce, in the absence of any punitive action by the regulators who choose to look the other way. I am a post-paid subscriber of Airtel and had registered with their DNCR, over a year back. I still get promotional messages from various—at times unscrupulous—vendors. I do not know to how many vendors the customer database has been sold. ‘Make...
