[Assam] From ToI/India world leader in greasing palms

Thu Oct 5 05:53:30 PDT 2006

At 1:49 PM +0100 10/5/06, vijay goon wrote:
>USELESS!

*** I am quite sure it is another profound 
observation. But WHAT? What is USELESS ?

Hope to get a little clarification.

:-)

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>Chan Mahanta <cmahanta at charter.net> wrote:
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>O'Deka:
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>Ekebaare' gaat laagi gol neki heri?
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>  >Haven't you noticed the marked change in 
>Georgia, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan >after they 
>broke free of soviet control?
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>*** Yes, yes, good examples. One more reason for 
>Assam's continued servitude of  a corrupt to the 
>core Indian rule.
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>  >And the reason?  It is hard to change old 
>practices and systems even in fifty >years.
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>*** Hmmm! Is that why all our desi compatriots 
>in these shores get so defensive about 
>themselves ? Too soon to expect change  in us as 
>well ?
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>Incredulously yours,
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>O'm :-)
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>At 8:53 PM -0700 10/4/06, Dilip/Dil Deka wrote:
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>>Don't lose any sleep over it. Your colleagues 
>>don't read the TOI. :-) And they don't know 
>>what BPI means. :-) :-)
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>Yes, things will be different in sovereign 
>Assam. Haven't you noticed the marked change in 
>Georgia, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan after they 
>broke free of soviet control?
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>How about greasing in Pakistan and Bangladesh? 
>They got separated from India but old practices 
>remain. And the reason?  It is hard to change 
>old practices and systems even in fifty years.
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>Ram Sarangapani <assamrs at gmail.com> wrote:
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>Hehehe!
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>Thats really bad. Wonder what that tells of us 
>(who came from India). Is it possible to 
>dealienate ourselves from the desh?
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>Maybe this is one reason that some in Assam want 
>to be a separate desh (of sorts).
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>And how on earth am I going to explain this away to the folks at work?:)
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>--Ram
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>On 10/4/06, Chan Mahanta 
><<mailto:cmahanta at charter.net>cmahanta at charter.net> 
>wrote:
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>What did I tell you :-)?
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>cm
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>India world leader in greasing palms
>[ 5 Oct, 2006 0031hrs ISTTIMES NEWS NETWORK ]
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>LONDON/NEW DELHI: India doesn't just have loads
>of corruption at home, it is also the world
>leader in exporting graft.
>
>Months after Transparency International ranked
>India as among the more corrupt societies in the
>world, the NGOç¼ï¿½s Bribe Payer's Index 2006 shows
>that Indian exporters are more willing than their
>counterparts from other countries to pay overseas
>bribes to secure business, clinch contracts, do
>deals and generally get on in the world.
>
>Of the 30 countries surveyed by the index, India
>was the worst ç¼" or most willing to give ç¼"
>followed by China and Russia.
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>With Brazil also ranking pretty low as the
>eighth biggest bribe giver, the BRIC nations ç¼"
>the foursome of Brazil, Russia, India and China
>ç¼" predicted to become among the biggest
>economies in the world by 2050 ç¼" emerge as
>being prepared to do whatever it takes to enhance
>their share of the global trade pie.
>
>While this is the third BPI released by
>Transparency, after the ones in 1999 and 2002, it
>is the first time India has featured in the index.
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>It was considered too economically insignificant
>and lacking global spread and reach in the
>earlier rounds. Liaoran Liao, Transparency
>International programme coordinator for South
>Asia, told  TOI  on Wednesday that it was
>definitely bad news for India to make its first
>outing on the BPI with a most-corrupt ranking for
>its newly jet-setting companies.
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>"In 1999 and 2002, India was not listed on the
>BPI," said Liaoran, "but now India is considered
>an emerging economy and an emerging export power,
>so the CEOs and MDs ranked its companies."
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>The newest league table was compiled after
>asking 11,000 top business executives in 125
>countries to rank foreign companies in order of
>their propensity to bribe in the World Economic
>Forum's Executive Opinion Survey.
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>Transparency said the executives ranked India
>bottom of the list of 30 countries. The
>executives suggested Indians seemed ready to do
>business by paying bribes or making extra
>payments.
>
>The BPI ranked Swiss companies as least likely
>to use brown envelopes and backhanders to get the
>job done. No Asian country figures in the list of
>the ten cleanest countries. Japan figures
>eleventh followed by Singapore.
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