Back in the mid-to-late 1980s, a series of exposes in Ramnath Goenka’s Indian Express on the Reliance empire rocked the country. The investigations, coming on the heels of sustained reportage in Business Standard, not only revealed a deep corporate-political nexus but also showed how Dhirubhai Ambani’s company exploited and benefited from the policies framed by Indira Gandhi—some apparently tailored to benefit the business house.