“The difference between Bangalore and Hyderabad is that the guys in Bangalore who are making money are separate from the guys who run the city,” he told me. “In Hyderabad the businessmen and the politicians are intertwined. It is people who are from there, the entrepreneurs and their families, who have ties with people who are in politics.” It was this overlap, and the bonds of trust that came with it, that provided uniquely fertile grounds for corruption.
