This election the Corporate Candidate will be the person who is seen as
being able to ‘deliver’...and that will include being able to put down people’s rebellions across the country by deploying the army if necessary, in places like Jharkhand, Orissa and Chhattisgarh, where, in
the corporate view, massive reserves of cold cash are languishing in the
forests and mountains—not quite the US model, but getting there.
