Mother Teresa or Dr Faustus?

Mr Gupta says his fateful September call to Mr Rajratnam, which was in a gap in a busy schedule, was about the money he was owed. Why would he tip off someone with whom he had an ongoing dispute?

Mind without Fear

Rajat Gupta

Juggernaut Books; 342 pages, Rs 699

“If Mother Teresa were charged with bank robbery, the jury would still have to determine whether or not she committed a bank robbery.”  That quip by Federal Judge Jed Rakoff at the 2012 trial of Rajat Gupta, a former Managing Director of the global consulting gold standard McKinsey and Company for insider trading, is an accurate summary of what Mr Gupta says in his defence in the new book.  

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