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“Azhagiri is a Cut Throat Politician”— TN Minister Poongothai to Niira Radia

By Girish Nikam The wide net cast by Niira Radia across the political, bureaucratic, corporate and media circles, was not just limited to people in Delhi or just the Karunanidhi family in Tamil Nadu. It is now clear that she had made friends even among the Cabinet ministers in the Karunanidhi government in Tamil Nadu, [...]

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Radia Tapes II: Is this what “stringing a source” is according to Vir Sanghvi?

By Girish Nikam The second round of revelations of the Radia Tapes, an enormous 800 conversations of Niira Radia(remember still over 4,000 conversations are yet to make the light of the day) with various people, which have been accessed by the Outlook magazine, and being downloaded on the their website, since late last night, will [...]

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Why did the 2G scam occur right under Manmohan Singh’s nose: PM—Raja letters—Text and the context

By Girish Nikam Amid the growing bewilderment among all sections of the people about the succession of corruption cases tumbling out of the cupboards of the Government, one question remains an enigma, about the 2G spectrum scam. How did the admittedly and inarguably the most honest and humble Prime Minister India has seen, preside over [...]

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Why are Prannoy Roy, Aroon Poorie, Shobhana Bhartia, Vineet Jain, Raghav Behl silent? The key questions and issues which need their answers now

By Girish Nikam What are the issues and questions which bother all of us the most, from what has emanated from the Radia Tapes? For the last two weeks since the whole issue blew up with the publishing of the Radia Tapes, debate has centred largely around the well known journalists like Barkha Dutt and [...]

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Is Ratan Tata as clean as he claims: Why is Niira Radia talking to Karunanidhi’s wife?

By Girish Nikam “Jamsetji Tata was a man of great achievement, far-seeing and circumspect. His resolute will enabled him to elaborate projects which his imagination conceived upon the largest scale. He was at once a businessman, a patriot, and a thinker, whose service to India was as great as his love for her was profound” [...]

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Prabhu Chawla responds : Are his claims right?

Prabhu Chawla, Editor(Languages), India Today group, has sent a rejoinder to us on the extracts of his conversation with Niira Radia published on this site on Nov.21(http://indiasreport.com/magazine/data/radia-tapes-how-top-journalists-have-turned-handmaidens-of-ambani-brothers/. Following is his rejoinder: Much has been made about a conversation that Nira Radia had with me. This is just to put the record straight. The 13 minute [...]

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Radia Tapes… Corporate- Bureaucrat-politician nexus— The N.K.Singh Connection

By Girish Nikam The nexus between the corporates, bureaucrats and politics is an issue which has dogged this country for a long time. However it has been routinely passed over, though periodically some song and dance of it is made in the media, before it gets buried in the next “breaking news”. What this tape [...]

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Radia Tapes… How Top journalists have turned handmaidens of the Ambani Brothers—Part 2

By Girish Nikam There have been a lot of justifications coming from those Journalists and their supporters about the Radia Tapes being sensationalised, as the conversations are just part of the “gathering of information” which any journalist does, in the process of finding stories. However for any keen reader who has followed the first part [...]

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Radia Tapes… How top Journalists have turned handmaidens of Ambani Brothers

By Girish Nikam The Niira Radia Tapes which has caused a storm, after a part of it was published in both the Open and Outlook magazines this week, but picked up by only Mail Today newspaper partly, and ignored by all other newspapers and TV channels, shows the extent to which the rot has set [...]

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Raja—The Spectrum Scamster and why he remains important

By Girish Nikam When Andimuthu Raja, landed in the Chennai airport in the night, after he had handed over his resignation letter to the Prime Minister Dr.Manmohan Singh, about five thousand people had gathered. Not to spew venom at him or protest against him, for having been involved in what is being touted as the [...]

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