A Money Laundering Primer

You've illegally stashed billions offshore, 

Morph black into white: that's the score,

Via the FII route

Round trip the loot

To Dalal Street, funds multiply galore.
FII= Foreign Institutional Investors

The Love Merchants

The lovesick season has begun,

Love merchants are enjoying the fun, 

Don't be swayed 

By their wooing B Grade

They'll fleece you honey, better run.

Amar Singh's Pants

Our leaders are mired in sleaze,

Looting taxpayers as they please, 

When asked to recant, 

Amar dropped his pants, 

Performing a political striptease. 

Swindlers List

Mubarak's embezzled 70 billion offshore, 

Massive corruption, the protesters roared, 

Without absolute power,

Our netas' wealth flowers,

Because our PM's an "honest senor."

'Neta' means leader

Davos Drivel

The Davos speakers are suave and civil, 

But rant mind numbing drivel,  

Their opinions hurled,

Haven't changed the world, 

As our brains begin to wither and shrivel.

Loot and Scoot

 

Has Pranab granted a license to loot? 

In Swiss banks, embezzled funds take root,

For double taxation reasons, 

It's grand larceny season, 

So politicos can now plunder and scoot.

Deck Chairs Rearranged

The Cabinet was finally reshuffled, 
Did the PM really want a kerfuffle, 
Some deck chairs rearranged,
The public's been shortchanged,
Were sulking ministers the only ones ruffled?

Happy Birthday Queen Mahamaya

Mayawati is now Mahamaya,
On her birthday she does aspire,
Present garlands of cash
And an ATM for the stash,
Disobey, the consequences will be dire.

2G Maths

Kapil Sibal may be a lawyer who's bright, 

Auditing 2G spectrum overnight, 

Now we all have skills,

To display at will, 

Becoming brain surgeons at the speed of light.

The Bofors Ghost Returns

The Congress party began to relax, 

No threat from the supine media hacks, 

Then rose Bofors' ghost,  

And the Taxman's boast,  

"Take 'commissions', but pay your tax." 

Moving the Inflation Goalpost

The economists rested in Heaven,

For the economy began to leaven, 

"Inflation at year end, 

Six percent," we contend, 

Did they mean December 2011.

The Onionee

At ninety rupees onions are dear, 
Rupee's worthless, Reserve Bank fears 
"The onion you see 
Is the new currency,"  
Says the Bank's Governor in tears. 

Oligarchs Unlimited

India's ravaged by oligarchs, 

Politicos, corporations and sharks,

The country's being plundered,

But the media won't thunder,  

Political sponsors ensure it won't bark.

All India Radia

 

Lobbyist Radia's brief it was said,

Was to appoint Raja the Telecom head,

Oil, land, and gas,

Resources looted en masse,

By whom is this banana republic led?

The Black Gown and the Pigeon

Radia's black gown it seems was chic,

When phone calls to Tata were leaked, 

Her phone was encrypted,

But calls were transcripted,

Niira, please deploy a pigeon that speaks.