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Indian finance minister in a dilemma

October 26, 2009

The Gulf Times

The worst aspect of the Bofors case – a major arms-deal scandal in Indiawhich brought down the Rajiv Gandhi government in the 1980s – was not corruption. Corruption in varying degrees is rampant worldwide.

The worst aspect was the cover-up of the corruption. Cover-ups too are an international phenomenon. But nowhere are they as brazen and shameless as they are in India.

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