Netflix doc series ‘Bad Boy Billionaires’ is finally complete, with a Hyderabad court allowing its last episode to drop after five years. What does it tell us about the Satyam scandal?

Satyam Computer Services founder Ramalinga Raju in a still from the documentary series ‘Bad Boy Billionaires’

What’s power, if not, those you can’t express so openly against? And this applies to both groups and individuals.

As for hard political power, as Ugandan dictator Idi Amin once famously promised: There’s freedom of speech. Unsure, if freedom after speech! 

The recent, crackerjack Netflix documentary, Cover-Up, on the life and times of America’s top investigative journalist, Seymour Hersh, feels instructive then.

While Hersh could ‘pelo’ the powerful Pentagon over My Lai massacre during Vietnam War, or rub Nixon’s nose to the ground as US President, veritably in the land of the free — it’s when he switched over to report on corporate America that it was “the beginning of the end” for him at the New York Times (NYT). 

The usual collusion of big media and mega corporations, apart — wherein the advertiser becomes, by default, the medium’s owner — consider the corporate fraud that Hersh was investigating with a conglomerate “hiding money/profits” between unrelated entities.

It was about favourable loans issued to top executives. That’s exactly what had gone on inside the NYT itself!

That said, take the case of the IT........

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