#129 M.K. Venu, then with ET: Jul 08, 2009 21:10:16

A petition before the Supreme Courts shows the rot within. It is not just the 2G Spectrum but the entire Republic of India that seems to be up for sale, with the dealers being a group of powerful telemarketers— corporate houses, lobbyists, bureaucrat

Four transcripts that were submitted to the SC along with audio recordings in May 2009 covering the cabinet formation, DMK politics and who'd get telecom portfolio

The conversations with M.Karunanidhi's daughter M. Kanimozhi about keeping Dayanidhi Maran out from negotiations with the Congress and to get the telecom portfolio for A. Raja

In these Radia wants Sanghvi to tell the Congress not to negotiate with Dayanidhi Maran. He tells her that while he has been meeting Rahul and can't "get into Sonia in the short term" he would "try and get through to Ahmed"

Recordings of conversations with the likes of Ratan Tata, Ranjan Bhattacharya, Barkha Dutt, Shankar Aiyar, Sunil Arora etc

The other big 'national resource' story involves the virtual who's who: Ambani V/s Ambani V/s Tata, gas and power sector war involving big name journos, politicians, babus, corporates

The controversial document purporting to be an official account of intercepted phone conversations that mysteriously cropped up with various media houses and was put up and then taken off from the Full Index

All the 140 available audios -- a work in progress with transcripts getting added on an on-going basis and names being identified, added and corrected

'Barkha Dutt... says that he [PM] has no problem with you, but he has a problem with Baalu'

'Have they not lost their heads a bit much in the last 48 hours?'

Oh God. So now what? What should I tell them? Tell me what should I tell them?

'[Kanimozhi] agrees that they [DMK] shouldn't have sent the list the way they did'

'PM was not keen on Maran'

'Prime Minister can’t talk on a phone to dad and convey... Prime Minister is also, you know, very soft spoken and dad can’t hear that clearly also'

'I’ll talk to Azad right after I get out of RCR'

'wo Daya kaa aur Rahul ko kuch business interest hai toh'

'My God. You know, he [Dayanidhi Maran] is watching everything you’re doing…'

'I was supposed to meet Sonia today ... I’ve been meeting with Rahul ... I won’t get into Sonia in the short term, let me try and get through to Ahmed'

'Congress has been totally confused as to who they need to speak to'

'...seriously there is only one route, talk to the daughter she will take you to him…'

'Daya is not talking to Ahmed Patel, Daya is not talking to Ahmed Patel, I don’t know who Daya is talking to'

'Let me call Ghulam then. Let me call him'

'Congress never said anything about Raja'

'Your friend Sunil Mittal... He’s lobbying against Raja... Then I made Barkha call up Congress, and get a statement from Congress'

Mukesh Ambani said: ‘Haan yaar, you know Ranjan, you’re right, ab to Congress apnii dukaan hai (now the Congress is our shop).’

'No, you see Congress’s only condition is…'

'Then the Leader [Karunanidhi] said then you [Maran] join the Congress'

'He’s [Maran] trying to get somebody from the congress say things against Raja to dad'

'We made a very reasonable offer, we’ve lot of regards for Karunanidhi, we would like to deal with him. We have no regard for Maran'

'I think the government should insist on going in a big way about the Dish TV or whatever, or to make sure the entire cable network is open to everybody'

'So who planted in the minds of the Congress saying that Azhagiri doesn’t know English?… I know…'

'Niira Radia: So, I believe Maran has given about 600 crores to Dayalu, Stalin’s mother. Vir Sanghvi: 600 Crores, okay? Niira Radia: 600 Crores, is what I’m told. Vir Sanghvi: It’s hard to argue with that kind of pressure'

'Niira Radia: You didn’t put aviation, Kanni. Kanimozhi: You know, just an aviation I will take it up. No problem'

'Tell Sunil Mittal, you have to work along with Raja for another five years'

'Narayanan is just a messenger. So, now the decision will be taken'

About Nita Ambani-Shobha De

Natasha for Nita

Counter Campaign'

Meeting NK Singh and Sharad Yadav

Vir to Interview MDA

See how Tony works

Director and Chief Executive Officer of Vaishnavi Group

BJP Revolt

Negotiation over apology for the Forbes report on Ambani children

'Ek hi aadmi ko apne ko protect karne kaa hai, woh hai Mukesh Ambani … baakii I don’t really care.. Is mein toh kitna bhi 10, 20, 50 crore kharchaa hogaa toh koi problem nahi hai'

Ratan Tata: 'I’m surprised that Raja after all that you supposedly did for him is playing this game'

"If the story [Tata-Bharti talks] comes out, I will then take it right to the top, because the story is wrong. I won’t leave it"

Instigating Shiv Sena

"Ratan is to get over the Sunil Mittal allergy, he must get over the Mukesh Ambani allergy, he needs friends also, no?"

Managing Director and CEO. Tata Communications: About RCom stake selling and stock manipulations

Third “wife” of Karunanidhi and mother of DMK MP, Kanimozhi on the Voltas connection and building on TRIL land

'There is some continuous rumour about this Venugopal Dhoot buying out these [Datacom] guys'

"Senthil and Rahul Joshi dono ki le lii"

Probably Tata Power employee

Judgment Day

One way…Totally managed judgment'

Fixing up panel for Budget discussion on ET Now and a personal meeting

"A nuclear deal happens and you fix the spectrum. You know, …something else happens and you fix coal"

'I would imagine that share holders are gonna have a view: Why should you start, are you a fool to spend 7 billion dollars to give it for free to your brother?'

Raja: 'I have a party to run'

Outlook Business guy travelling to Barmer

'It’s not written by a judge. You can tell that from way it has been written'

'K. Venugopal: How is Anil more influential on the High Court side? Niira Radia: Vanavati'

'There is some fuss about the government coming out with some ordinance on the gas price issue'

'There is information going around that Reliance is pulling out of the Haryana SEZ... that Jhajjar... that there are difficulties'

SC Caveat

'What kind of story do you want? Because this will go as Counterpoint, so it will be like most-most read, but it can’t seem too slanted, yet it is an ideal opportunity to get all the points across'

‘This Litigant Told Me He Paid Vijender Jain 9 Cr’

'Dekho in this country, dono side mein fix karne kii capacity hain... Chhotaa bhaai mobile jyaada hai. ...everything is fixed now these days'

AI disinvestment -- asset stripping

On Vir's article

'Vir Sanghvi actually pre-empted me a little (Laughs) There was a line I was going to take ... In critical resources there should be, uh, national policy... You are not a Banana Republic...'

"Sunil Jain's article -- so stupid! I think we shouldn't (respond) but a letter to the editor..."

Fixing a meeting between MDA abd RNT

'Empowered Group of Ministers on KG gas, it seems to be… is going to be reconstituted'

'Whoever is giving you this input is really giving you the wrong perspective. ... I know for a fact because I’ve had someone speak to the PMO myself.'

'You know... we had this Bhardwaj [as law minister] .. [who] used to deal with [Raja] differently. But now ... with Moily … he will just not.. take any chances…. And they ...want the prime minister to pull him up'

"Ma'm there is some action going to happen at Bombay High Court"

'I want to stay away from this gas issue. You want me to write about it'

Pressure on ET when the RNRL news was not carried

"I have twisted the article in Pratap Narayan’s name – I have only twisted the article because I can’t write an article on an issue which is before the Supreme Court"

Director, Tata Power, and then someone else

Please help identify this (possibly) member of Parliament

80(1) D benefit -- one sided with MDA

'The finance ministry has told ET that there is no benefit for RIL. This will be only applicable for future NELP blocks'

ICICI, AT&T

'I understand that Maran is going hammer and tongs for Raja. And I hope Raja doesn’t trip or slip' '...the chief justice has issued a statement that no minister called the high court judge.'

"I heard Mahesh Agarwal saying government is not a respondent in this case." " How can they lie! Such liars! I will just have a word with all the channels, sir"

Mahesh Agarwal's ticker removed

'If the older fellow has so much of an influence, how come the younger brother is able to do so much?'

'I want Manoj to meet Sameer Manchanda because Sameer and Manoj had a long chat in between on the cable thing'

'I met Raja today. I went to see him today and he is alright. He is a happy man. The Chief Justice has given his clearance on him and he’s happy. He’s really happy with that'

Praful Patel's made 15,000 crores

"They’ve approached Ratan to become the chairman of that advisory committee"

Anil Ambani itinerary

Asking Sunil Arora to send pointers for Tarun Das who's meeting the PM on how Naresh Goyal and Vijay Mallya have connived with the minister to destroy Air India

ET finally did not carry the story. "We’ll just handle it with CNBC and with Mint and HT"

Praful Patel 'screwed up the airline'

"He will use the subscriber’s argument and will going to Vahanvati and Vahanvati will give some silly opinion and again we will be stuck."

Tata writing to Power Ministry

arranging Baijal TATA meeting

"Raja is not doing anything but he is still guiding Anil and Anil is trying to use him to go to Azhagiri and get the Fertiliser sector to be compromised on this gas issue"

'Arun Shourie is speaking as a listed speaker in the Rajya Sabha for the BJP but fortunately we have managed to make him the second speaker but made Venkaiah [Naidu] the first'

'It was very helpful, Manoj'

Sunil Mittal wants to build bridges with Ratan

Sukukumar, Mint

Tony has destructive strategy'

'Maybe maybe I should speak to you on some other phone number or something' 'Why, you think they are monitoring my number?'