BHAI HO TO AISA

While the Spectrum scam tapes have been talked about, what has not received adequate notice so far is the lobbying and controversy surrounding the division of gas between the Ambani brothers. The conversations in this set seemingly include journalists Vir Sanghvi of the Hindustan Times; Prabhu Chawla of the India Today group; and G. Ganapathy Subramaniam and M.K. Venu of the Economic Times...
While we are yet to fully absorb and understand the various intricacies and ramifications of the very many conversations on record, and clearly, there are many serious issues at stake here including those of privacy (who authorised these taps), timing of their made public and on-going corporate wars but it is eerie how casually a discussion, for example, about the battle for power sector involving Tatas and Reliance in Maharashtra segues into instigating the likes of Shiv Sena and other groups like the MNS and how easily corporates play and manoeuvre the "protests" by goon-gangs of political outfits to further their ends.
Also, how easy it seems for these power-brokers to casually fix not just politicians -- e.g. Venkaiah Naidu of the BJP here is mentioned as amenable to persuasion, as against Arun Shourie, for example -- but also, in their narration, the higher judiciary.
Some of the abbreviations:

• MM: Manoj Modi, Mukesh Ambani's right hand man in Reliance
• Ganu: G. Ganapathy Subramaniam of the ET
• MDA: Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani
• ADA: Anil Dhirubhai Ambani
• MK Vinu/Vinu is M.K. Venu

• Following files said to be K. Venugopal, Editor, Hindu Business Line
  Vinu-fudged RCOM figs-gas-Curse on AmarSingh-20090616-200515 &
  Vinu perhaps-All issues-mainly spectrum-20090616-195137

The file-names below are as in the CD handed over to the Supreme Court. They seem to follow the format of the date and time of the recording in the file name, thus -20090620-143207 seems to refer to a recording of 14:32:07 on 20 June, 2010.