Monthly Archives: October 2007

Booming and Bubbling India- XXII

Posted on October 15, 2007 by indra

India’s place in the global economy has been best covered in an article in the latest Mc Kinsey Quarterly: “Real GDP growth averaged 8.6 percent over the past four years, and the country’s economic planners expect it to grow by … Continue reading →

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Business Week And Economist on India

Posted on October 13, 2007 by indra

Business Week has some very informative reports. How India Clusters Growth: A slew of new manufacturing hubs, or “clusters,” developing across India, from Chennai in the south to the hosiery and knitwear capital of Ludhiana in the north take advantage … Continue reading →

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Urban Development Drives Rural Growth in India

Posted on October 13, 2007 by indra

Some media reports provide some hope and delight me. Lead India initiative of ‘Times of India’ has selected some 24 leaders out of 32,682 applicants from the 8 cities of India. It is heartening that many are already working for … Continue reading →

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Kolkata Marwaris Control Government Machinery

Posted on October 11, 2007 by indra

Last Sunday I was watching NDTV programme “We, The People” aired directly from the premises of St Xaviers College in Kolkata. The subject was the love story of Rizwanur, a graphic designer with an established industrialist Ashok Todi’s daughter, Priyanka … Continue reading →

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Noida: Promote New Type of Temples

Posted on October 11, 2007 by indra

Sakti Temple-Sector 40 and a battle for Prasad Samvada, Sector 41 in its October Issue has a lead story, “Let’s Rethink of The New Move Of Constructing A Temple On The H-Block Vacant Land”. Samvada’s concerns against the move of … Continue reading →

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Manufacturing India-I

Posted on October 10, 2007 by indra

India can compete with China only with a booming and competitive manufacturing sector. India has the talent and skill. A change of mindset among the techies will be necessary to appreciate its need. India can switch over to hardware sector … Continue reading →

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Will Caste Keep on Dividing?

Posted on October 9, 2007 by indra

Last week has been terrible because of the news of the social evils. In Kolkata, a young woman had to lose her husband, as he was poorer and of different faith. Her industrialist father got her husband eliminated with help … Continue reading →

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Booming and Bubbling India- XXI

Posted on October 8, 2007 by indra

Sensitive Index (Sensex) is flirting with a new record high of 18000. If it had closed at that level, it would have been the fastest 2000-point rise in the recent history of any stockmarket. In the past few weeks, the … Continue reading →

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Incredible India@60: A Shadow PM

Posted on October 8, 2007 by indra

After the rift with leftists on Indo-US Nuclear deal, it appears that Manmohan Singh has lost his prime ministerial role. All the photographs where Manmohan appears with Sonia Gandhi clearly show who is the boss. Since Rahul got into Congress’ … Continue reading →

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India Story: Economists vs. BusinessWeek

Posted on October 6, 2007 by indra

I am going through the two most respected business magazines of this week October 4, 2007, one from US and the other from UK. Economist has a lead article on India, ‘Business and caste in India- With Reservations. It has … Continue reading →

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