Last year when the Supreme Court lifted the veil of secrecy over electoral bonds and Indians finally came to know who had paid how much money to which political party, one of the names missing from the list of donors was that of the Tata Group.
Does it mean one of India’s oldest and richest corporate groups does not fund political parties?
It does – and with impeccable timing – as Scroll reporter Ayush Tiwari recently found out.
In the first episode of our new show True Story, watch Scroll’s Executive Editor Supriya Sharma in conversation with Ayush about how he cracked the Tata story and many others related the murky world of political finance.
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