By: Harish Khare *[**Harish Khare was editor-in-chief of The Tribune.]* Published in: *The Wire* Date: May 13, 2026 Source: https://thewire.in/economy/crooked-corporate-chickens-are-coming-home-to-roost *Note:* Please access the source to read the entire article.
"A decade of crony capitalism has spawned institutional dysfunctionality on a massive scale. To put it bluntly, the crux of the matter is the ruling party’s obsession with Hindutva which, ipso facto, has become an alibi for incompetence and is incapable of translating into good governance. For over a decade now, many thinking Indians as well as most of those in the Hindutva constituency have allowed themselves to believe that if the Narendra Modi regime is given electoral ‘mandate’ after ‘mandate’, the Indian state’s crisis of governance would get tackled efficiently and competently. A decade of crony capitalism has spawned institutional dysfunctionality on a massive scale. We have a crony media dishing out fiction as facts on nightly shows and are at their creative best in generating viciousness on social media. We have crony judges who rebuke environmentalists for obstructing development and projects. We have crony statisticians who fudge figures and data and crony Niti-Aayogers who produce expert research papers in alignment with the Leader’s claims and boasts."
