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Teji Bachchan and Sonia Gandhi

Posted on December 22, 2008 by indra

A HOMAGE TOO Teji Bachchan, wife of the late Hindi poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan and mother of Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan, died yesterday (Friday) at the age of 93. I was a fan of Haribans Rai Bachchan, the famous popular … Continue reading →

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Lead from Front

Posted on December 21, 2008 by indra

Perhaps the biggest change, over the years that I notice is that the executives are too busy with the meetings. Whenever I contact some whom I knew during office hours these days, the normal reply nowadays is ‘Sahab is in … Continue reading →

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Tulsi- Means of Livelihood

Posted on December 20, 2008 by indra

I was amazed when I found one Organic India’s Tulsi Tea Collection sachet in an envelope from ‘Good Housekeeping’, a magazine along with other promotion materials. Yamuna has always kept a tulsi in our residence wherever we lived. Tulsi leaves … Continue reading →

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‘Economist’ This Week

Posted on December 19, 2008 by indra

‘Economist’ this week has four reports related to India. It is good enough indication of the importance and attention that India is getting these days. The report on Information technology in India ‘Gravity’s pull’ deals with a fear or prophecy … Continue reading →

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IITians Go Rural

Posted on December 19, 2008 by indra

On occasion of Pan-IIT meet in Chennai, many have talked and written about IITs and IITians that is really informative. IIT-Madras has, for example, recruited over 200 faculty of whom at least a third did their bachelor’s in one of … Continue reading →

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Innovating India

Posted on December 18, 2008 by indra

Any nation or an enterprise is judged by its innovativeness on long run. India’s engineering talent and IT power has created a place in global technological fraternity. However, innovations are being taken up as priority in almost all sectors, and … Continue reading →

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Sitaram Yachuri’s Concern for Development

Posted on December 17, 2008 by indra

Lately, Hindustan Times regularly publishes Sitaram Yachuri’s lead articles on editorial page. He is an intelligent leftist and many of his arguments are really worth attention. In a recent article, he wrote about the development of Gujarat. “Despite the tom-toming … Continue reading →

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Booming and Blooming India-XXXI

Posted on December 17, 2008 by indra

Inc’s Grand H1 show: For the half year ended September 2007, interest coverage ratio for Corporate India, excluding banking sector, has gone up from 10.8 to 11.7 times. India-born Vikram Pandit is Citigroup’s new CEO: India-born Vikram Pandit has been … Continue reading →

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Terrorism: Ratan Tata vs. P Chidambaram

Posted on December 17, 2008 by indra

As reported in Times of India, Ratan Tata, chairman of Tata Sons announced to set up his own anti-terror mechanism: “We will now look at anti-terrorism or protection of our assets and our people ourselves and we will try to … Continue reading →

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Great Indian Middle Class

Posted on December 16, 2008 by indra

The great Indian middle class has been a hot topic. An article in the latest ‘McKinsey Quarterly’ offers the following projections about the great middle class in India. It is certainly exciting.  Over the next 20 years, India will likely … Continue reading →

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