V G Siddhartha's death an eye-opener on how weak an Indian entrepreneur is

The government, staring at a fiscal hole equal to an entire percentage point of GDP, isn't likely to let up on squeezing Indian business

On Monday, Indian entrepreneur V.G. Siddhartha asked his driver to bring him to a bridge close to the southern city of Mangaluru. Then, according to the driver, Siddhartha got out to take a walk. He was not seen again; his body was recovered on Wednesday morning.

In a typewritten note released by the news agency ANI, Siddhartha -- founder of India’s largest chain of coffee shops, Cafe Coffee Day, and a prominent early investor in the successful IT services company Mindtree Ltd. -- appeared to apologize for “failing to create the right profitable business model.” He said pressure from his private