Nandini Lakshman's superb dispatches from India
Among the younger journalists I've been quite impressed with is Nandini Lakshman of BusinessWeek. Her dispatches from India are very trenchant and astute. I'd recommend her latest dispatch, a mini-profile of the flamboyant entrepreneur Vijay Mallya. Very informative, very savvy. Lakshman might want to next tackle how Indian businessmen are participating in the Indian politicl process not only by buying politicians in the time-honored tradition, but also getting themselves into local legislatures and the Rajya Sabha, the Upper House of India's bicameral national parliament.