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The Art Of Graft

Panchayati Raj will lead to devolution of corruption. At the other end, reforms too have kicked off a festival of kick-backs.

The Art Of Graft
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(Shiv Visvanathan is author of A Carnival for Science and an editor of Foul Play: Chronicles of Corruption.)
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