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A vivid scintillating deeply intimate account of the ways, wiles, and psychological dimensions of Niira Radia. India`s most notorious corporate lobbyist, whose manoeuvrings have riveted the attention of the entire nation, shaken the government, sent top politicians and corporate executives to jail, and made her a household world in less than a year. How did this once virtually down-and-out middle-aged woman whose only record was plumbing the depths of business failures in London soar to such heights in India after her debut in Delhi as a corporate executive with the Sahara in 1995?
No one is better positioned to tell this story than R.K. Anand, one of India`s top criminal lawyers, who knew her closely. She was his neighbour, his friend and confidant until she perpetrated a fraud on him. Anad details this swindle as part of a larger perspective on Niira and her totally amoral approach to life in which she regularly sacrified friendship and probity at the altar of a blind and soaring ambition.
Today, several of Niira`s accomplicies and co-conspirators are in jail. She is under interrogation by law enforcement authorities. The book, ultimately, is not only about soaring ambition, hubris and the crash of a high flier but also about post-liberalization India having lost its moral compass and becoming a nation of fixes in which the Niiras of this world are as snug as a bug in a rug.
ISBN - 9788124116289
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