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The Next Raju?

Posted by: Subrata Majumdar on: January 8, 2009

Profile of the luminous Management Team at Country Club. The fellow named Sid seems to a particularly rare piece of art! Read on and muse why Andhra Pradesh dominates the landscape in giving India her best fly-by-night companies…

Y.Rajeev Reddy
Chairman and Managing Director, Country Club India Limited.
Mr. Rajeev Reddy, an entrepreneur in spirit is [...]

Why Don’t They Eat Cake?

Posted by: Subrata Majumdar on: August 31, 2008

It is as unmistakable as it un-missable. Irrespective of whether you are travelling by air or by road, it is impossible to notice that the green color in the fields of West Bengal is very unlike that in anywhere else in the country. The vast lushness is a pointer to the fertility of the land. [...]

Yes Sir, Yes Sir, Three Bags Full

Posted by: Subrata Majumdar on: July 23, 2008

Commentator after commentator in the Indian media, political inclinations and insinuations notwithstanding, shed copious amounts of reptilian tears over the appearance of naked cash in the floor of the Parliament during the trust vote yesterday. A hallowed shrine, the sanctum sanctotum of Indian politics, was eviscerated, they wailed.

Hogwash.
Indian politics, right from the dark days of [...]

It would be funny if it wasn’t sad

Posted by: Subrata Majumdar on: July 15, 2008

They came driven in their own cars to do the needful. The needful were different for the two protagonists of the Nuclear Deal Drama India has witnessed in the past couple of weeks. Prakash Karat, the Communist boss, came to announce the withdrawal of support in a Wagon R (the small car from Maruti Suzuki). [...]

Kolkata’s Kommunist Korruption

Posted by: Subrata Majumdar on: October 31, 2007

I always land at Kolkata, where I generally make one trip each year, with tepid expectation. I am keen to observe the progress made by this city, which was until recently quite untouched by the economic revolution sweeping the rest of India. My first brush with organized corruption started at the pre-paid taxi counter (run [...]