Monthly Archives: October 2009

Collapsing Empires: GM and now Toyota

Posted on October 16, 2009 by indra

I have been under an awful halo of the two giants. Reasons are obvious. I worked for the automobile industry and a company that had a long tie with General Motors. I had contacts with many from GM, US as … Continue reading →

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Terah -Thirteen

Posted on October 15, 2009 by indra

‘Outlook’ has come out with an anniversary issue and many celebrities have written about 13*. I remember one of the finest interpretations of 13 from Manju Deshbir, the wife of my class friend, Deshbir Singh at IIT, Kharagpur for whom … Continue reading →

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Textex- My Dream e-Gadget

Posted on October 15, 2009 by indra

While reading and talking about e-readers, Amazon’s Kindle or Sony’s competitive version or for that matter many others including some from the Chinese that are getting into market or will soon be available, I always hope one day some entrepreneur … Continue reading →

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Media: It also serves

Posted on October 14, 2009 by indra

‘India Today’ and ‘Outlook’ are the two national weekly magazines that reflect the mood of the nation. With its vernacular editions, its circulation is large enough to have impact on the people too. Both have covered one unique topic each … Continue reading →

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Sharecropping and Bihar

Posted on October 13, 2009 by indra

I came across two articles related to this highly debated subject recently, first on Bihartimes.com and the second in Business Standard. The news reports in media about the Bandyopadhyay commission has again raised this sensitive subject. The commission on land … Continue reading →

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Can India Lead Through Innovations?

Posted on October 11, 2009 by indra

Many recent news reports about India and Indians make me ponder about if India can lead through innovations. The latest one giving hope came due to the person of Indian origin who shared the Nobel in chemistry this year. An … Continue reading →

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The Poor Indian Nobel Laureate

Posted on October 9, 2009 by indra

‘Venky‘, the Nobel winner does not own a car and rides a bicycle to work. “Asked what he would do with the money, he laughed and said he did not even own a car, but that he might buy a … Continue reading →

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It’s same: Be it vulgar, indecent or greed

Posted on October 8, 2009 by indra

How much should one CEO get as compensation? Are the amounts most of the CEOs get vulgarly excessive? Even prime minister expressed his views on the subject, sometime last year. Now Salman Khursid and Montek Singh Ahluwalia have expressed their … Continue reading →

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हम दो, हमारे दो घर

Posted on October 7, 2009 by indra

Hum Do, Humare Do Ghar My craze for a good house perhaps has a root in my childhood. We had a huge house with as many as four big courtyards in the remote village, but that was not of bricks. … Continue reading →

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Manufacturing and Machining

Posted on October 6, 2009 by indra

In Hindustan Motors, I started as executive trainee, a new concept of building managers for the future because of the company’s close relationship with General Motors, the largest company in the world at that time. After a short over-viewing of … Continue reading →

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