So, now that Rahul Gandhi has woken up and smelt the kanji (credit to Padma Rao for this delightful phrase), guess how he’s decided to recast himself? As an anti-corruption vigilante! No kidding! And part of his modus operandi is to engage with India Inc at sessions at his office, organised by no less than Ashok Ganguly, Rajya Sabha MP and Member, National Knowledge Commission, India.u00a0

According to sources, almost everyone who matters amongst India’s leading industrialists has been invited to these sessions in small groups to hear the country’s most celebrated paper-tearer hold forth on the path ahead. “He’s always been regarded by India Inc as something of a communist,” said one such master of the universe who’d attended one of these sessions, “But, now he’s talking about how he would like to make the Congress a zero corruption tolerance party.” Bit late for that na? We said.