What does the ouster of Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd have to do the Suresh Kalmadi or the scandalous Commonwealth Games Organizing Committee that he heads? The world’s largest PC maker lost no time in dismissing its chief executive for fudging expenses amounting to $20,000 (Rs. 9 lakh), th... [More]

Dear Alexandra: Corruption is such a perennial source of livelihood in this country we would have fancied a Department of Corruption Studies at, say, Delhi University that would have a few hundred, if not a few thousand, researchers scurrying to corners of the country studying the national scourg... [More]

Mani Shankar Aiyar is, by all accounts, a learned man with a heart in the right place. And Suresh Kalmadi, by all accounts, is a clever sports administrator with an uncanny instinct for fame and money. As the two slug it out over the Commonwealth Games, what is clear is that Indian sports needs neit... [More]