amit, that is true as of now, but the Ranbaxy issues predate the Daiichi take-over.
Hmmm!! That story ends exactly like the old classic about the Kennedy-Nehru train ride parallel to the Ulan Bator Slik Road previously mentioned , that ends with:
Ah! But that is the Indian Ambassador to the United States!
Sridhar, to expand on TSJ's not-so-veiled threat as part of his tantrum (tantrum, BTW, is a misused stolen word from Mallostani), there is NO organization or personal entity in the Duniya who does not have "issues" predating this/that. This is the Martin Luther King driving 36mph-in 35mph zone situation. The standard desi lobster reaction would be
So why couldn't MLK be sensible enough to drive 34 mph? Wasn't he being a scofflaw?
Misses the point entirely. Had he driven 34, they would have arrested him for "cruising" (driving too slow, mainly to case the nbd to steal, or impress chicks).
Meanwhile the standard traffic speed through the nbd was probably 50, as it is in most 35mph zones in Ulan Bator. The yaks run fast because they are trying to get away from their own "lubricated" and fragrant musharrafs. :
The US prosecutorial system has damaged its own credibility and any reputation it may have earned in the days of
Atty General Archibald Cox and Judge Seneca (Watergate judge) or the Fed Civil Rights prosecutors and judges in the South, for fairness, sense of balance, sense of priorities etc. (Mainly their observance of the Gitanjali wish:
Give me the strength never to bend my knees before insolent might) and degenerated into a crass political harassment machine. It is of course not alone. In Singapore, that Paradise of Clean Efficiency, per my 17th coujin, if you say something that makes the guvrmand or its senior leaders unhappy, well.... the tax ppl will pay you a visit. And another. And another. And another... until u get the message.
These oiseules are all in it for the Prestige and Power, and will kiss any musharraf above them to protect and advance those interests. They will, IOW, bend not just their knees, but will GUBO if that advances their career ambitions.
Here they are setting out to throw their tantrums on foreign policy, domestic employment, manufacturing non-competitiveness, open trade, and now the falling drug prices, through selective, extremely vicious, abuse of the law. So, IMO, the Presumption of Innocence, so forgotten these days but still buried in the Constitution somewhere, shines brightly in favor of Ranbaxy. Those prosecuting them have essentially zero credibility - and have earned that the hard way. Ranbaxy may have issues if you dig deep (or maybe even on the surface). So I bet have Merck, J&J, and whoever else stands to benefit from Ranbaxy getting shut down and drug prices shooting back up.
And I bet also that if the prosecutorial cohorts were to investigate those companies for election contributions to (no need to name them), they may have to dig deep, but find them they probably will. Bijnej eej bijnej, after all.
