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

[Chan Mahanta]

O'Ram:

>And how on earth am I going to explain this away to the folks at work?

Kelei baaru baator kosu singi tikat kele ghonhi lo'la-he'?


The shoes are for those whom they fit. But in the 
unlikely event you find yourself  in such a jam, 
you can always invoke Dilip's explanation, which, 
in Oxomiya would translate to:

"Swre' nere' swr porkiti, kukure' nere' saai, 
jaar ji porkiti morilew logote' jaai". A truly 
'hwza aru dhowan-khowa' explanation, that would 
be.

Ne' ki kwa ?

c-da :-)










At 10:27 PM -0500 10/4/06, Ram Sarangapani wrote:
>Hehehe!
>
>Thats really bad. Wonder what that tells of us 
>(who came from India). Is it possible to 
>dealienate ourselves from the desh?
>Maybe this is one reason that some in Assam want 
>to be a separate desh (of sorts).
>
>And how on earth am I going to explain this away to the folks at work?:)
>
>--Ram
>
>
>
>On 10/4/06, Chan Mahanta 
><<mailto:cmahanta at charter.net>cmahanta at charter.net> 
>wrote:
>
>What did I tell you :-)?
>
>cm
>
>
>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 NGO·¢?s 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 ·¢" or most willing to give ·¢"
>followed by China and Russia.
>
>With Brazil also ranking pretty low as the
>eighth biggest bribe giver, the BRIC nations ·¢"
>the foursome of Brazil, Russia, India and China
>·¢" predicted to become among the biggest
>economies in the world by 2050 ·¢" 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.
>
>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.
>
>"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."
>
>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.
>
>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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