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

[Rajib Das]

Maybe you don't need to. 

We are in august company - just next to China. And if
you need to explain how the Americans do it worldwide
- when exporting arms, changing governments, laying
oil pipelines etc., doing assasinations (or attempting
to). I guess we are small fry in the business.

It is a good thing!



--- Chan Mahanta <cmahanta at charter.net> wrote:

> 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 :-)
> 
> 
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> 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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