She started singing a traditional song as she raised her hands and struck her dandiyas on the beat.

Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.

The differences of castes…furnish a copious stock of extenuations…to different classes of offences.

Why some people choose to do the infamous fadeaway instead of a clean break?