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Four companies joined the billion dollar club in just a month’s time – Ranbaxy (9th march), Infosys (13th April), Wipro (16th April) and Bharati Televentures (23rd April). This was followed by Murugappa group, Bajaj Auto and Tata Power. Reliance Industries, … Continue reading →

Tomorrow (10.5.2004), I am going to exercise my most cherished right as a citizen of this great democracy. However, I find myself in a dilemma almost similar to the one that Arjuna had in Mahabharat. Unfortunately for me, I don’t … Continue reading →

India’s industry level interactions with Japanese industry happened perhaps some time in early 80s. It allowed our professionals to learn the Japanese management styles and the tools they used in the management of their companies. Over the period, the tools … Continue reading →

An article in Indian Express on 5.5.2004 mentions a complaint- “In Andhra’s Nanagapaka village, early voters complained that when they pressed the button of the Congress the light of the Telegu Desam party glowed.” I had not taken a similar … Continue reading →

On 3.5.2004, I was watching the opinion poll on Election 2004 on the tube. However, the programme wasn’t interesting enough to keep me from retiring for the night. I was about to turn off the TV and call it a … Continue reading →

It hardly matters who forms the next government after general elections 2004 for Lok Shabha. For the sake of continuity, NDA is certainly preferred. If verdicts come in favour of NDA, it will have no excuses in 2009 (at the … Continue reading →

This is a story of a village named Pipra, more popularly ‘Mardan Rai Ka Pipra’, in Bihar near Sasaram. Sasaram is a district town famous as the birth place of Sher Shah Suri who ruled India for 5 years and … Continue reading →

Recently, I went through a wonderful article titled The Power of Productivity in the latest issue of ‘McKinsey Quarterly’ (2004 number 2). I strongly recommend this article to everyone connected with running an enterprise as well as the nation’s economists. … Continue reading →

A review of data in 2004 World Machine Tool Output and Consumption Survey (Gardner publication) was interesting. China was 12th in export with $370 million in 2003, Thailand 25th, whereas India was 29th with only $12.9 million. But the figures … Continue reading →

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