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had been left to fester by the government, from the prime minister downwards. In partic-
ular, insufficient effort had been made to speed up delayed coal deliveries from the badly
run government-owned Coal India, which had caused power stations to cut output and even
shut down. Management of coal production had also been disrupted by a crisis over corrupt
mining licenses. Shinde could have used his political clout to demand more action on these
fronts.
Notes
1 .
Parliament Session Wrap, PRS Legislative Research, http://www.prsindia.org/parlia-
menttrack/parliament-updates/parliament-session-wrap-budget-2013-2746/
2 .
http://www.prsindia.org/parliamenttrack/vital-stats/
3 .
K. Shankar Bajpai in conversation with JE, October 2012
4 .
K. Shankar Bajpai, 'The closing on the Indian Mind', The Hindu , 29 May 2012, ht-
tp://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/article3466593.ece
5 .
'Inclusive Growth for the Bottom of the Pyramid', The C.K. Prahalad Memorial Lec-
ture by Prof Gautam Ahuja, 9 January 2011, http://www.pravasitoday.com/prof-c-k-
prahalad-memorial-lecture-by-prof-gautam-ahuja-at-pbd-2011-complete-text-and-
video
6 .
The Ambani story was told by Hamish McDonald, an Australian journalist, in The
Polyester Prince , Allen & Unwin NSW, Australia 1998, which the Ambanis arranged
to have withdrawn from publication in India. It was reprinted in two modified and ex-
tended 2010 editions: Ambani & Sons , Roli Books, Delhi, and Mahabharata in Polyes-
ter , University of New South Wales Press, Sydney.
7 .
The Polyester Prince, Allen & Unwin NSW, Australia 1998, p. 52.
8 .
Ibid., p. 47.
9 .
'An Ambani Story gets a makeover', Mail Today, pp. 20-21, by JE, 3 October
2010, http://epaper.mailtoday.in/epaperhome.aspx?issue=3102010 and on ht-
tp://ridingtheelephant.wordpress.com/2010/10/03/ambani-sons-%E2%80%93-revived-
from-the-polyester-prince-they-pulped/
10 .
India
Calling,
Anand
Giridharadas,
HarperCollins
India
2011,
ht-
tp://www.harpercollins.co.in/BookDetail.asp?Book_Code=2740
11 . 'Indian telecoms - The right connections', The Economist , 18 December 2003, ht-
tp://www.economist.com/node/2304669
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