Monthly Archives: July 2006

I have been writing in support of the Ratan Tata’s Rs 1-lakh-car project. It will be a revolutionary achievement for the Indian manufacturing sector. However, for few months now, every now and then, I read about protests from the farmers … Continue reading →

‘Fortune’ on July 28, 2006 has an entry ‘Congo Capitalism’ by Anjan Sundaram. In Congo, the world’s most difficult place to do business, an Indian entrepreneur has built an empire of soap, ‘the Wal-Mart of Congo’, as he likes to … Continue reading →

Dasrath Manjhi is this Shajahan. Shahjahan had all resources of the Mughal Empire to build his TajMahal. Dasarath did all by himself, with his own sweat. The story had beginning some 22 years ago. Dasarath’s wife was seriously ill. He … Continue reading →

Where can the people of the rural India get engaged once the technologies are taking away their jobs? Combines, tractors, engine pumps, flour and rice mills and oil crushers are replacing the old way of agriculture and food preparatory processes … Continue reading →

If I ask many well-educated Indians, “Who was Hemu?” I am sure to get a blank look on their faces. Unfortunately, he has not been the darling of the historians too. Was it because he had a lowly parentage or … Continue reading →

Right from our school days, we knew of 1857 Sepoy Mutiny as the first war of independence. My teacher in village primary school narrated the story of Babu Kunwar Singh of Jagdishpur in our district of that time as one … Continue reading →

Open defecation has shamed me time and again. The memory on the night we were proceeding toward our village while returning from Gaya after once-in-life shradh performed for all dead in the family in Gaya just haunts me. It was … Continue reading →