Strange Encounter
I work as a senior engineer in a government undertaking. I decide on purchases worth several crores. Suppliers try to bribe me, but soon enough they understand I don’t take bribes and go strictly by merit. However, I made exception to only one. I had found that one Mr. Ramaratnam did a reasonably good job with his products, and that in the past he had some severe financial difficulties from which he was still struggling to come out. For some reason, I sympathized for him and started favoring...