http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=36053

Although I’m all for the government getting out of the way, there has to be some methodology (regulation? ah!) to see that the international companies don’t use the country like a leech, as they are prone to do. Regional development is for self interest for the local, indigenous companies and not for the multinationals because they are here just for profits (and I don’t blame them for that). Take the example of the Coca Cola company. They have completely messed up with the local water table where they have their bottling plant (somewhere in the south?).

Companies that otherwise are the epitomes of propriety in their own countries (because of the strict laws) go berserk in other countries and miserably exploit the local populations.

couldn’t agree with you more on this dichotomy. and about manmohan singh : who asked him to assume pmship if he wasn’t prepared to manage the politicians ? this obscene idea that a combination of a bureaucrat-pm who needn’t bother about political issues and a non-executive political leader who would, is as good as a single political leader-pm shows how weak and weak-thinking the congress has become. seen from a larger perspective, one could say that our idea of democracy has become rather skewed.