1.   Prime ministers have acted as arbitrarily as any British viceroy, setting aside unwelcome provincial election results in Kerala, for example, and ignoring minority grievances at will.

2.   The union claims GM has failed to invest in the plants and has ignored long-standing grievances and run roughshod over union contracts in its zeal to cut costs.

3.   Indians say government ignores grievances.

4.   Inmates complained about the treatment, but their grievances often were ignored, the study found.

5.   Local officials were accused of embezzling village tax receipts, financing private construction projects and ignoring community grievances.