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Majumder, Sourya,

Loose pages : court cases that could have shaken India : recalling the Birla-Sahara papers and Kalikho Pul's suicide note / Sourya Majumder & Paranjoy Guha Thakurta. - xxvi, 349 pages ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references.

Abbreviations -
Cast of Characters -
Preface -
Foreword -
Introduction -
PART I:
1. Court Cases That Could Have Shaken India -
2. Not Out -
3. Clockwork Justice -
4. Laws for the Few -
5. A Person of 'Impeccable' Integrity -
6. Reading of the Ruling Elite -
PART II:
7. Mining Birla -
8. Two Confessions and a Half -
9. Who's Who -
10. Joining Dots, Leaving Blanks -
11. Managing Minders -
12. Collective Materialism -
13. All in the Pariwar -
PART III:
14. Crisis of Credibility -
15. A Chief Minister Commits Suicide -
16. Judicial Aloofness -
17. Aftermath -
Appendices:
Questionnaire 1 -
Questionnaire 2 -
Questionnaire 3 -
Questionnaire 4 -
Questionnaire 5 -
Questionnaire 6 -
Questionnaire 7 -
Questionnaire 8 -
Acknowledgements -
About the Authors -
Index.


This is the story that needs to be told.Loose Pages has a phenomenal cast of characters: a chief minister found hanging from a noose inside his official residence, a former President, several serving or retired chief justices of the country?s highest court, some of the country?s best-known businesspersons, well-recognised faces from the bureaucracy, the media and the higher judiciary. It also includes some of the most important and influential persons in India, past and present: the Prime Minister, besides chief ministers, members of Parliament and political personalities of varying ideological hues.Tying the tales together are hard disks, emails, diaries and many ?loose? sheets we had access to.Many of these sheets of paper and diary entries were recovered from the offices and premises of people associated with two of India?s prominent business conglomerates-the Aditya Birla Group and the Sahara India Pariwar-after ?search-and-seizure? raids were conducted by officers of law enforcement agenciesThe Sahara-Birla papers could have culminated in one of the most sensational scandals of contemporary India. But it did not.

ISBN: 9781684549245 1684549248

Source: Library of Congress -- New Delhi Overseas Office

LCCN: 2019315463

Subjects--Personal Names:
Pul, Kalikho, 1969-2016.

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Aditya Birla Group.
Sahara India (Firm)
India. Central Bureau of Investigation.
India. Central Bureau of Investigation.
Sahara India (Firm)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Capitalism--India.
Political corruption--India.
Capitalism.
Political corruption.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
India.

Dewey Class. No.: 330.1220954