About Me

Swaminathan Gurumurthy, popularly known as a writer and journalist in India, is a corporate adviser of high standing. A chartered accountant by profession, Gurumurthy is highly rated for his investigative writing and persuasive skills. He has ceaselessly campaigned against corruption at high places, exposing the bribery in Bofors arms deal and the nexus between corporates and government. The Business Baron magazine rated his knowledge of economics, finance and accounts as outstanding. BG Verghese, a highly respected journalist, described Gurumurthy in his biography on the media baron Ramnath Goenka as a ‘brilliant chartered accountant and exceedingly astute amateur lawyer’. Gurumurthy was rated among 50 most powerful persons in India in 1990 by ‘Gentleman magazine’, while India Today magazine in 2005 rated him as the 17th most powerful person in the country.

He exposed the aggressive corporate expansion by Dhirubhai Ambani and believed Ambani’s business practices were unhealthy for the nation. Goenka entrusted Gurumurthy with fighting and exposing Reliance Industries. Gurumurthy’s articles in The Indian Express created stirs in the corporate world as they publicly denounced a culture of corruption within the troubled conglomerate.
BG Verghese, a highly respected journalist, described Gurumurthy in his biography on the media baron Ramnath Goenka as a ‘brilliant chartered accountant and exceedingly astute amateur lawyer’. Gurumurthy was rated among 50 most powerful persons in India in 1990 by ‘Gentleman magazine’, while India Today magazine in 2005 rated him as the 17th most powerful person in the country.

He has ceaselessly campaigned against corruption at high places, exposing the bribery in Bofors arms deal and the nexus between corporates and government. The Business Baron magazine rated his knowledge of economics, finance and accounts as outstanding.

BG Verghese, a highly respected journalist, described Gurumurthy in his biography on the media baron Ramnath Goenka as a ‘brilliant chartered accountant and exceedingly astute amateur lawyer’. Gurumurthy was rated among 50 most powerful persons in India in 1990 by ‘Gentleman magazine’, while India Today magazine in 2005 rated him as the 17th most powerful person in the country. Gurumurthy is the co-convenor of the Swadeshi Jagaran Manch(SJM), which is currently spearheading the agitation against the evils of modern economic policies.

He was the subject of media coverage when he publicly accused two then-senior Indian bureaucrats of being American moles. He indirectly named them in the New Indian Express article titled, “US plots Gujral-Sharif show” dated 20-09-1997.

Gurumurthy created a controversy when he said that only 30% of the women are feminine in India during a speech at a hospital in Chennai.

The speech received wide range of criticism.[23] The All India Democratic Women’s Association protested in Puliyakulam against him for his comments on women.