00789pab a2200133 454500008004000000100002200040245003200062260000900094300001600103362001000119520047700129650001500606773003400621180718b2003   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aBanerjee, Sumanta  aBetter `nouveau' than never  c2003  ap.5145-146.  a6 Dec  aCases of corporate skullduggery, financial shenanigans, kickbacks and hush money collected by ministers, have escalated not only in numbers, but in size in the last 12 years. In India unlike in the West there are no built-in social security measures to protect the victims of the self-indulgence of free market and privatisation. There is neither any professional adherence to legal norms, nor any humanitarian commitment to social concerns in the judiciary. - Reproduced.  aCorruption  aEconomic and Political Weekly