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civil society groups who day in day out harangue us on TV talk shows about transparency and disclosures that the government and corporate sector etc., should make. Recently Russia has approved a bill that introduces stringent control over the activities of foreign funded non-government and non-commercial organisations in a move designed to pre-empt any coloured revolution in the country. It says, and to quote The Kremlin has learnt its lessons from a string of coloured revolutions in the former Soviet Republics the rose revolution in Georgia, the orange revolution in Ukraine and the tulip revolution in Kyrgyzstan all inspired and orchestered by western-funded Civil Society groups. Incidentally, there is an act in the USA called Foreign Agents Registration Act [FARA] and it provides for penalties up to ten years in jail for acting as a foreign agent or getting foreign funds without notification to the Attorney General. FARA was originally passed in 1938 to prevent the spread of Nazi ideas and propaganda. It is important that the Government of India bans foreign funding of civil society groups and NGOs who want to reform India. We are no more the white mans burden. The author is professor of Finance and Control, Indian Institute of ManagementBangalore, and can be contacted at vaidya@iimb.ernet.in. The views are personal and do not reflect that of his organisation