Chandran’s Blog

When Shashi Tharoor, the Congress Member of Parliament called the NRI’s as the National Reserves of India while coordinating the panel discussion on Partnering for Prosperity at the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas 2012 held at Jaipur, he managed to have an emotional connect with the NRI audience who gave him an applause. “We consider NRIs as National Reserve of India and this is the reason we invite you to come and invest in India which holds tremendous investment opportunities in the sectors of education, healthcare and infrastructure. There could be some operational challenges, but these are the areas we look forward ...

About the system of justice it is said ” laws are like spiders’ webs. Small insects fall into them and get trapped, but large insects like the bumble bees break through them and escape”. Thus a clerk in a government office who is caught red handed by the Anti Corrupt Bureau for demanding a bribe of Rs 200/- to move a file from one table to the other languishes in the prison while people who are accused of getting kickbacks worth crores of rupees remain untouched by the law in most of the cases. ...

First a disclaimer: This is a work of fiction and any resemblance of name or character to any person living or dead is purely coincidental. Ajay Nalya the CEO of the private airlines which is facing economic turbulence and is seeking a government bailout was talking to a Fengshui consultant asking how he can change the fortunes of his beleaguered airlines. ...

The Senior Congress minister was toggling with the remote and watching the TV news when I went to meet him. Giving me a weak and depressed smile he signaled me to sit down. “Just give me a few minutes and I will give you the interview” he said. As he was watching the TV, his wife brought something to eat in two plates and placed it on the table. The minister without looking at the plates took it in hand and put it in his mouth . The moment he chewed it , he yelled and spat the stuff out. ...