Corruption out paces India's growth

India's economy grows at 8% and corruption at 11.5%. One wonders, what could happen if India never had corruption? For one we will be the 8th largest economy in the world (we are currently 11th) not taking into consideration what could have been if the money was efficiently invested. Our public debt currently 58% of GDP will be reduced to 23%. Our defense spends over the last 15 years could have been written off. We will have more than one third of the infrastructure budget to sustain our growth for the next 10 years. My hypotheses are based on...

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Who's the greatest of them all

“Who is the world’s greatest batsman?” is a question that has kept many a cricket commentators busy. The players of yester years talk about Bradman’s genius, in fact bradmanesque became an expression often used to describe a perfect innings. Then in the 70s an era when fast bowlers dominated world cricket, a man rather short in stature walked tall amongst the West Indian giants. Gavaskar almost single handedly turned the tide for the Indian team. From a team that had almost resigned to defeat, to...

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