Speak Up, Gunned Down

Informative and welcome email has arrived from

Pravin Palande, a gentleman in

Mumbai who shares our interests.

pravinpalande*yahoo.com

Idealistic Indian engineer Satyendra Dubey

blew the whistle on crooked Indian highway

contractors. Mr. Dubey got shot dead for his

pains. Fellow Indian engineers all over

the world don't think well of this.

Indian Express Beats the Scandal Drum

Transparency International takes note

The obituary of Karim Lala, top don and

Afghani hitman in the Bombay underworld.

Karim Lala's eulogy – a nicer gangster than a suicide bomber

"Lala was a godfather-like figure providing

succour and employment." Although he

also happens to be dead now, Mr. Lala was

just the kind of operator one would need

to hire to shoot an engineer.