Lip service

At a CII session on corporate governance, Punjab National Bank Chairman and Managing Director K C Chakrabarty was sceptical about all the attention being paid to corporate governance in the aftermath of the Satyam scam. He said corporate governance was something that had to be paid attention to all the time, and not just episodically. To drive home his point, he quoted a Kabir couplet: Dukh mein sumiran sab karein, Sukh mein karein na koi/ Sukh me sumiran sab karein/Dukh kahe ko hoi? (Everyone remembers God when they’re in trouble, no one remembers him in good times, if you remembered him in good times, why will there be any bad times?)