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A sum of Rs 25 crore is not exactly small change. Not even for India's largest privately controlled corporate group with an annual turnover running into tens of thousands of crores. Yet this is the amount of money that had been offered in January 1998 by a company in the Reliance group, promoted by the venerable Ambani family, to "buy peace" with the income tax department. These are words that have been used by an official representative of the group, not conjured by this writer. Now why would...

Hers is a familiar face on the idiot box. She has headed newspapers and magazines. Married to the chief of a public sector giant with two grown-up daughters, she continues to write extensively alongside her career as a television newscaster and anchor. She, as the blurb on her fictionalised autobiography - presented as a novel - puts it, found herself at a disadvantage on two counts: because she was not a man and, more importantly, chose to be a Hindi-language journalist. But Mrinal Pande...