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Dear Dr. Eric,
1. Only heard of the BC Roy-Birlas episode, but know not
much. But one thing we must remember: that save Parsis
like Tatas and modern-age GDP producers like Wipro and
Infosys (discount Satyam!), MOST successful leaders of
industry in free India thrived on favour and graft. And never
more than during the Congress regime -- whatever you say
about Kantibhai.
2. Sa.Ka Patil. Wasn't that the reason Mumbaites rejected
him, in favour of a taximen union leader, George Fernandes,
the giant slayer (not even a Marathi Manoos, but a former
seminarian migrant from far away Mangalore?)
3. The Tamil thought process (and politics) has always gripped
me. The more I got gripped, the less I seemed to have understood!
Annadurai, Kamaraj, Karunanidhi, MGR, Jayalalitha ...
-v
- Original Message -
From: eric pinto ericpin...@yahoo.com
To: Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994! goanet@lists.goanet.org
Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2009 12:12 PM
Subject: [Goanet] Indira, and India.
The reason why Priyadarshani succeeded in
throwing off the entire old guard is that she held the purse strings
to the party's funds. I was the powercentre, O just a shunniya.
And the Mundhra scandal was surely not the first since Aug. 15.
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Thank you, Val, and that had her telling us India is Indira !
The other money links were B C Roy - Birla-Calcutta, and our S K Patil - Dalal Street/Share Bazaar. To their credit, they did not
enrich themselves, unlike Morarjee, whose son Kantibai was the family bagman and license peddler.
Kamraj, the ascetic patriot, had stood up to the secessionist DMK with great dignity, even as he oversaw a Madras Congress
transition from the Charis, Swamis and Subramaniams to his own restless Dravid kin. His sudden resignation as CM, coupled with a
call for the entire party High Command to give up cabinet posts, produced a public turmoil not seen since the Quit India days of
1942: Morarjee, Patil, Roy and CB Gupta resigned, in short order, decapitating the Cabinet and the 'Government of the Republic of
India.'
Fearing a move by the President and army, Nehru immediately named Lal Bahdur to his own office, an effective resignation of his own.
Soon, he was dead, a bitter and broken man. Had Laljee survived, he would have brought Kamraj to Delhi. Both detested the Moscow
fifth column, and our 'socialist' farce would have ended very quickly. India would have become Japan, Taiwan, Korea and Singapore,
rolled in one, with genuine free enterprise, not the crony variety that gave us ACC Cement and Birla Motors. eric.
