How do tax havens and syndicates running shell companies help fraudsters escape the long arm of the law? How does the ambiguity of valuation in the start-up ecosystem increase its vulnerability to corporate fraud? How are manufacturers and exporters from China exploiting India's Free Trade Area (FTA) with other countries to dump goods at artificially low prices in the Indian market? What challenges does the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) of China pose for regulators of India? Why do people fall for Ponzi and pyramid schemes again and again? Serious frauds affect society and economy in damaging ways, belittling the common man's trust in the system. Yet, barely do we understand how these affect our lives. A first-of-its-kind, The Great Indian Fraud reveals how all such frauds result from the manipulation of complex financial transactions, involving simple mathematics and tricks, to deceive regulators, enforcers, business partners and customers. Drawing on his experience in the fields of forensic audit and financial investigation, author Smarak Swain explains the modus operandi behind some of the most notorious cases of fraud-Haridas Mundhra, Jayanti Dharma Teja, Harshad Mehta, Ketan Parekh, Hasan Ali Khan, B. Ramalinga Raju, Nirav Modi, Vijay Mallya, Nirmal Singh Bhangoo and many more-narrating the rise and fall of the greatest fraudsters of our times. Informative and skilfully narrated, The Great Indian Fraud is a must-read to understand how frauds happen, how law enforcement agencies handle crises, the sectors that witness maximum frauds as well as the emerging sectors that are at high risk.

Twenty-something Vikram rebels against his father and the mediocre life his engineering background has ordained for him by travelling to Delhi to become a stand-up comedian. Only, he is forced to see the serious side of his jokes when circumstances compel him to accept the position of a journalist at The Great Indian Democracy, an upcoming political magazine. Life drifts along through plagiarized articles and pub-hopping until one day he finds out why he was hired in the first place. And meets Advaita, the annoyingly beautiful intern with whom he falls in love. Disarmingly funny, The GID is a satirical and thought-provoking take on everything that makes our nation’s democracy the biggest stand-up show.

The eBook contains material drawn from dreams that ordinary folks worldwide see in political frameworks such as the Indian democracy. It is up to governing authorities to actualize these innocent dreams into reality so as to usher in truly public-oriented welfare policies. The book is an extraordinary Work in history of non-fiction literature. It belongs to that rare category of books that appear once in a thousand years' time. It has been dubbed the 'Golden Book.' It has made tremendous positive impact on policy-makers, decision takers and political bosses of various governments including the Indian government. The present Golden eBook discusses diverse public issues threadbare without any Fear or Favour. In short, this is a fine piece of practical philosophical thinking. The book explores and helps broaden intellectual horizon in many diverse fields such as public governance and administration, sociology, politics, economics, political geography, economic geography, business administration, human psychology, international trade, international taxation, world governance, peace. The book is full of interesting unknown facts; answers curious questions in addition to setting out practical agenda for politicians and all other people who are interested in finding out practical solutions to problems of governance to make 21st century a century of peace, prosperity and progress by assuring democracy, human dignity, human rights, women's empowerment, gender parity and equality, free global humane trade, protection of girl child. Interestingly, many of golden suggestions given in instant book have been implemented by several governments worldwide. The book lays down pragmatic intellectual framework for future global world government. Many interesting questions that this eBook gives answers to Why are railway lines and road links from Karachi to north-east tip of Asia linking south Asian and east Asian countries useful? Why did rebel soldiers of Sikh regiments fail to march upon Delhi and capture Amritsar in Punjab in aftermath of Operation Blue Star in 1984? A former Indian prime minister was deep in smuggling? A popular Indian actress gold-courier for notorious smuggler Dawood Ibrahim? What are liberally conservative and conservatively liberal political ethos? Shouldn't Bharat Ratna be withdrawn from Sachin Tendulkar? Why was Bharat Ratna conferred upon Sachin Tendulkar? Why has Bharat Ratna become a big farce? Why did Vishwanath Pratap Singh, former Indian prime minister wish to be a Naxalite? Why did national poet Pradeep refuse to compose patriotic songs? Is secessionism a political crime or benign human craving for freedom? What is psychology and pathology of anti-secessionism? How can loss of Maanav lives and property due to secessionist military fights be stopped permanently peacefully? How can you eliminate extortion by passport issuing authorities in India? How can governance be completely controlled by common citizens? How can menace of paying forcible bribes for getting documents certified from government authorities be overcome? Whom do reservations in government jobs really benefit? What is ulterior political motive behind reserving a particular constituency for a certain community? How can multiple taxes be avoided? Can there ever be single taxation system throughout world? Which is fifth factor of production? What is no taxation without facilitation? How can e-governance effectively help make public governance transparent and corruption-free? How can Indian universities be made fully student-friendly? can there be one world government with flourishing free humane trade? What is Lootarchy, Welfarchy, who is Welfarechist? How is 'Paramatantrataa' better than 'Suraaj' and 'Swaraj'? What is the great Indian dream? Can food insecurity lead to overthrow of powerful regimes? Should India have one common civil code? Is there real danger of military coup and public-revolt against central regime in present India? Does India need be politically reconfigured? What is permanent solution to Kashmir problem faced by India and Pakistan? How can black money be brought back into India from abroad? What are technical and non-technical corruptions? How can inflation be controlled? What is ‘guided market price mechanism'? What is affirmative help? How can buyers be protected against builders-mafia? Should ownership of leased government land pass onto present occupants? Can BJP keep its promise of building ram mandir? Which is one world language, one world religion, one Vasudhiotic world government? What is united states of humanity and its flag? What is ideal age limit for being an elected member of various legislatures? What should be India's golden foreign policy? Should world government be conservatively liberal or liberally conservative? What is ideal approach to deal with human rights’ violation questions?

For the past 25 years, Tamal Bandyopadhyay has been a keen student of Indian banking. A lifelong reporter and journalist, he is an award-winning national business columnist and a bestselling author. He is widely recognised for ‘Banker’s Trust’, a weekly column whose unerring ability to anticipate and dissect major policy decisions in India’s banking and finance has earned him a large print and digital audience around the world. The column won Tamal the Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism (commentary and interpretative writing) for 2017. Banker’s Trust now appears in Business Standard, where he is a Consulting Editor. Previously, Tamal has had stints with three other national business dailies in India, and was a founding member of Mint newspaper and Livemint.com. He is also a Senior Adviser to Jana Small Finance Bank Ltd. Between 2014 and 2018, as an adviser on strategy for Bandhan Bank Ltd, he had a ringside view of the first-ever transformation of a microfinance institution in India into a universal bank. Author of five other books, Tamal is widely recognised as a contributor to the Oxford Handbook of the Indian Economy and Making of New India: Transformation Under Modi Government. In 2019, LinkedIn named him as one of the ‘most influential voices in India’.

In the mid-1990s, India established an economic reform programme, initiated and sustained by a skilled yet quiet political leadership. This text provides an analysis of India's recent foreign policy, especially towards the United States.

In 2001, India had 4 million cell phone subscribers. Ten years later, that number had exploded to more than 750 million. Over just a decade, the mobile phone was transformed from a rare and unwieldy instrument to a palm-sized, affordable staple, taken for granted by poor fishermen in Kerala and affluent entrepreneurs in Mumbai alike. The Great Indian Phone Book investigates the social revolution ignited by what may be the most significant communications device in history, one which has disrupted more people and relationships than the printing press, wristwatch, automobile, or railways, though it has qualities of all four. In this fast-paced study, Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey explore the whole ecosystem of the cheap mobile phone. Blending journalistic immediacy with years of field-research experience in India, they portray the capitalists and bureaucrats who control the cellular infrastructure and wrestle over bandwidth rights, the marketers and technicians who bring mobile phones to the masses, and the often poor, village-bound users who adapt these addictive and sometimes troublesome devices to their daily lives. Examining the challenges cell phones pose to a hierarchy-bound country, the authors argue that in India, where caste and gender restrictions have defined power for generations, the disruptive potential of mobile phones is even greater than elsewhere. The Great Indian Phone Book is a rigorously researched, multidimensional tale of what can happen when a powerful and readily available technology is placed in the hands of a large, still predominantly poor population.

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India is rapidly becoming the world’s largest flailing democracy. India’s institutional framework has been systematically undermined, from within and without. In the tenth volume of the Rethinking India series, some of India’s most eminent persons write of how we can think of re-engineering India’s hardware (redressing structural flaws in India’s existing institutions, creating new institutions equipped to address fresh challenges and re-engaging all of India’s systems), as well as ensuring progressive forces radically re-invent their political strategies and operational methodologies to socialize Indians to constitutional values.

The Parliament is the visible face of democracy in India. It is the epicentre of political life, public institutions of great verve, and a regime of Rights. In a first-of-its-kind study, this book delves into the lived experience of the Indian Parliament by focusing on three distinct phases—the 1950s, the 1970s, and the 1990s and beyond. The authors argue against the widely held notion of its ongoing decline, and demonstrate how it has repeatedly, and successfully, responded to India's changing needs in six decades of existence. This comprehensive and authoritative study examines the changing social composition and differing modes of representation that make up the Lok Sabha and critically explores its relation with the Rajya Sabha. Developments in the institutional complex of the Parliament, including the functioning of the Opposition and the Speaker are traced over time, along with the processes of legislation and accountability. Major debates in the House are scrutinized, and much of the analysis is based on empirical data gathered from surveys circulated among prominent politicians and public intellectuals. It also addresses the intricate issue of relations between the Judiciary and the Parliament. In its in-depth focus on the Lok Sabha, the volume highlights the way the Parliament has come to encompass India's proverbial diversity. It especially demonstrates the route this institution has taken to engage with fractious issues of diverging linguistic and regional demands.