Business Machiavellism Swadeshi and Videshi

government, lends itself to as many interpretations as there are spokespersons. On the one hand we have the aggressive posture of one leading spokesman committing the government to 're-reforming the reform' and on the other we find the finance minister attributing semantic confusion to 'turns of phrases'. Refreshingly, however, unlike other ministers, the finance minister took pains to elaborate in a recent television interview on some of the implications of what his new government means by swadeshi.