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Hope you’ve listened to all the Radia tapes?

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If you haven’t, you’ve missed out on a lot. These five links lead you to all the phone calls, and you can even download them. This is history. The tapes are revelatory about the corporate media, but more than that, about the corporates. They have come out due to corporate wars. Internecine corporate wars seem to be our only hope for transparency and accountability in this nation. Please listen to every pause in every audio to for a clear insight into what today’s India is. And lament this Manmohan yug, ghor Manmohan yug. Also see Sevanti Ninan’s excellent analysis of the media black-out of the story.

Four transcripts that were submitted to the SC along with a total of eight recordings in May 2009 covering the cabinet formation, DMK politics and who’d get telecom portfolio
The conversations with M.Karunanidhi’s daughter M. Kanimozhi about keeping Dayanidhi Maran out from negotiations with the Congress and to get the telecom portfolio for A. Raja
In these Radia wants Sanghvi to tell the Congress not to negotiate with Dayanidhi Maran. He tells her that while he has been meeting Rahul and can’t “get into Sonia in the short term” he would “try and get through to Ahmed”
Recordings of conversations with the likes of Ratan Tata, Ranjan Bhattacharya, Barkha Dutt, Shankar Aiyar, Sunil Arora etc
The other big ‘national resource’ story involves the virtual who’s who: Ambani V/s Ambani V/s Tata, gas and power sector war involving big name journos, politicians, babus, corporates – this has the largest number of tapes, and perhaps the most important ones.

7 thoughts on “Hope you’ve listened to all the Radia tapes?”

  1. I still can’t understand why journalists like Vir Sanghvi or a TV anchor like Burkha Dutt are allowed to act as go betweens – they have lost all sense of propriety and a sense of what or who they are. How can one watch Barkha Dutt’s oh so sanctimonius self -righteous talk shows now without cringing. Mukesh Ambani said it all about our India – Congress has become his own “dukaan”.

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  2. interesting as it is to listen into these conversations in the niira radia tapes, there is not much revealed in them that is not already known in general about the goings-on between politicians, journalists and corporate-lobbyists

    nothing much that could be termed as ‘illegal’ is to be found in the tapes

    the journalistic ethics of vir sanghvi could be questioned over what seems to be his colluding with niira radia to promote mukesh ambani and favour him in press coverage against his brother anil ambani

    for me the most significant thing brought out in the conversations is in this piece:

    VIR: Where is this coming from, this pressure?
    RADIA: It’s coming from Stalin and his sister Sylvie.
    VIR: Okay.
    Radia: So, I believe Maran has given about 600 crores to Dayalu, Stalin’s mother.
    VIR: 600 Crores, okay?
    RADIA: 600 Crores, is what I’m told.
    VIR It’s hard to argue with that kind of pressure?

    that is what should be investigated ……. did 600 crores change hands? …… where did those 600 crores come from? …… where is it lying now?

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  4. Tweet by @BDUTT interesting feedback. Thanks! I wd say that the sharing of info to get more info in a fast moving story is not wrong.

    Just a proof that she is involved in the whole affair or perhaps I am naïve to think that a journalist should reserve all info he/she has for the newspages or the tv channel….

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