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Institutionalizing Insider Trading?

Petty insider trading must be one of the easiest white-collar crimes to pull off. But how does one institutionalize it? Scale it up?

Next book (INSIDER) is out!

My next corporate thriller (INSIDER) is now out. Like the earlier one, this too is about white-collar crime in corporate India. INSIDER explores insider trading in Indian stock markets.



Here is the link: http://www.amazon.in/gp/product/93519...

Banking: Unprecedented convenience brings unprecedented responsibility

UPI is great. But with unprecedented convenience comes unprecedented responsibility.

INSIDER - Releasing May 2016

The next novel in my white-collar crime series set in corporate India is scheduled for 15 May 2016. Here is the blurb:

– A SOFTWARE ENGINEER goes missing in the Baltic.
– AN UNSCRUPULOUS STOCKBROKER is audaciously murdered in a crowded bar room.
– A HOTSHOT CEO is accused of insider trading.

When Shashi Kurva, self-made man and one of the country's most successful CEOs, is named in an insider trading scandal, he is stunned. Utterly blindsided, he makes desperate attempts to prove his innocence and identify the real culprit, only to stumble upon a conspiracy that hits far too close to home.

Racing between the boardroom, a stockbroking firm and a shattered family, Insider is a tale of duplicity and avarice, manipulation and murder, that takes you into the murky depths of the Indian stock market and data analytics, where profit is the only object, and money the only language.

Different Worlds

Most of the fictional worlds we journey to are divorced from the real world we Indians live in. Won't it be great to read gripping narratives written by Indian hands for Indian eyes?

Corporate India is great for crime fiction

This blog was originally published as a guest post at Printasia. A question I frequently get asked is whether I had any specific purpose behind writing Fraudster. Was I irked by the atmosphere in corporate India, one newspaper journalist asked. Did I want to expose their wrongdoings, another interviewer wanted to know. The answer is […]

Elephant in the Room – Part 2

The previous postmade the case for banks to focus on the proverbial elephant in the room, i.e. fraudulent loans. With loan frauds touching 12% of PSU banks’ net profit, the case cannot be clearer. Consider the following incidents: The stock in a warehouse is pledged for three different loans, and none of the banks knows […]

Elephant in the Room – Part 1

Here is a stunning statistic: banking fraud has grown eleven times faster than banks’ profits have. PSU banks saw fraud grow at a CAGR of 102% between 2010 and 2013, when their profits grew at 9%. One may be tempted to think that this unprecedented malaise must be due to across-the-board vulnerabilities in banks. It […]

Castles of Sand: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow

This article was published in tehelka.com’s ‘Personal Histories’ columnwith a different title in their 27 Sep 2014 issue . It happened almost overnight. A company that had been built brick-by-brick over 90 long years, a firm that employed 85,000 people in over 80 countries, collapsed in a few short weeks due to the actions of […]

Castles of Sand – Here Today, Gone Tomorrow

This article was published in tehelka.com’s ‘Personal Histories’ columnwith a different title in their 27 Sep 2014 issue . It happened almost overnight. A company that had been built brick-by-brick over 90 long years, a firm that employed 85,000 people in over 80 countries, collapsed in a few short weeks due to the actions of […]