On board the Satsang

Leading lights of Indian business who were on the board of Ranbaxy in 2004 as independent directors are under the scanner for turning a blind eye to what was happening in the company - something for which it has had to pay a penalty of $500 million to the authorities in the US. But these men have something more in common. What bound these men together was the Radhasoami Satsang - most of them happen to be followers of the movement that is headquartered at Beas in Punjab. P S Joshi, for instance, was the Satsang's doctor in the early part of the 2000s. Delhi Lt Governor Tejinder Khanna, who was chairman as the time of the whistle-blower revelations, has an even closer relationship with the organisation. His father was the secretary to the Satsang when it was headed by the father-in-law of Parvinder Singh, the Ranbaxy promoter who wanted to transform the company into a multinational corporation.