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How to compete in India
, Stefano Pelle, Vice-President & COO, Perfetti Van Melle Group - Business Standard
Rule No 1 in any expat survival guide is: "Learn the language and local culture". By that yardstick, Stefano Pelle, vice-president and chief operating officer of the Perfetti Van Melle Group, isn't your everyday expat manager. First, he has been in and out of India for 15 years now but has picked up only a handful of Hindi words - the regulation "namaste" and "dhanyavaad" among them. That too, after being married to an Indian for seven years. Worse for me, he shares nothing of the average Indian's passion for food, writes Alokananda Chakraborty. |
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Greatest threat to poor is socialism
, Arthur C Brooks, President, American Enterprise Institute - Mint
Against calls for more stringent regulations to rein in large financial institutions, Arthur C. Brooks , president of Washington DC-based American Enterprise Institute think tank, has been arguing that unsustainable government intervention and crony capitalism were responsible for the 2008 financial meltdown. Brooks, who was in India recently to speak on the “Moral case for capitalism”, spoke in an interview about promoting free enterprise and said increased government regulation wouldn’t help in preventing another financial crisis. |
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The Astronaut who brought samosas into space
, Sunita Williams - WSJ
A pendant of Hindu Lord Ganesha, a copy of Hinduism’s holy book, the Bhagavad Gita, and a box of samosas, are some of the items NASA astronaut Sunita Williams brought with her on expeditions to outer space. Last year, when the American astronaut ventured into space for the second time, she carried a copy of the Upanishads, a Hindu scripture. |
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Did Muslims vote for Modi-led BJP out of fear?
, Asifa Khan & Zafar Sareshwala - Manushi
In the 2012 Gujarat Assembly elections, 31% of Gujarati Muslims voted for Modi led BJP despite media and NGOs launching a high voltage campaign against Modi for being a “divisive” force in Indian politics. The enormous increase in Muslim vote for BJP was dismissed by Modi-Haters, including reputed political scientists , by saying that Muslims had voted for Modi out of fear. Those who hold this view need to hear Asifa Khan of Bharuch who joined the BJP a few weeks before the 2012 election after spending 4 years as the Congress spokesperson in Gujarat. |
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Team is mine, but i took others into confidence
, Rajnath Singh, BJP President - ET
In an exclusive interview to ET, his first since announcing a significant organisational reshuffle at the weekend that virtually anointed the Gujarat chief minister as the BJP's face for the next elections, Rajnath Singh said there was no reason for Kumar's Janata Dal (United) to leave NDA. |
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NSE’s new CEO a music-lover, perfectionist
, Chitra Ramkrishna - Hindustan Times
She loves Carnatic music. She plays the veena in her spare time. Her friends and colleagues know her as a perfectionist. Meet Chitra Ramkrishna, 49, the new managing director and CEO of NSE, the world’s largest stock exchange in terms of trade volumes — and a quiet, self-effacing force in India’s economic reforms. |
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Novelist, screenwriter with satiric voice
, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala - Indian Express
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, the German-born screenwriter and novelist who, as the writing member of the Merchant Ivory filmmaking team, won two Academy Awards for adaptations of genteel, class-conscious E M Forster novels, died on Wednesday at her home in Manhattan. She was 85. |
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Indian Patent Law will be emulated by many nations
, C Chandrasekaran, Ex-patent Controller General, India - Economic Times
C Chandrasekaran, former patent controller general of India, has keenly followed the Glivec patent case. Chandrasekaran, who headed the patent office when Novartis' patent claim was first struck down, spoke to ET on the crucial section 3(d) of the Indian patent law. |
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Auditor or crusader? The debate continues
, Vinod Rai - Mint
In February, speaking at the third anniversary of the Moneylife Foundation in Mumbai, Vinod Rai, India’s comptroller and auditor general, quoted from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar: “There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune,” recited the nation’s accountant-in-chief, in his careful, measured tone. “On such a full sea are we now afloat, and we must take the current while it serves or we lose all our ventures.” |
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Rise and rise of the other Gandhi scion
, Varun Gandhi - India Today
Appointed general secretary at the age of 33, the youngest ever for any national party in the country, Varun Gandhi's rise in the BJP has been meteoric. Party chief Rajnath Singh is said to have been extremely keen on appointing Gandhi for two major reasons: the Uttar Pradesh factor and the youth connect.
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Southern steel that severs ties
, MK Stalin - NewIndianExpress
His legion calls him Thalapathi or the lieutenant. ‘Man of Steel’ is what his name means in Russian. M K Stalin, chosen son and successor of DMK supremo M Karunanidhi, is now grabbing the eyeballs after convincing his father to pull the rug on UPA2 at the Centre while at the same time leaving the party in Tamil Nadu a deeply divided house... |
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We will not withdraw support; UPA themselves will hold elections in November
, Mulayam Singh Yadav, SP President - NewIndianExpress
Karunanidhi joined the government, following which one minister of his party was framed and sent to jail. He said that he would spill the beans and stated that it was not his decision (2G spectrum auction) alone; others were party to it too. Let them be anybody, they know it. He will say it on his own, at some time he may have to say it before the court. |
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FDI in defence sector would be an effective catalyst for self-reliance
, Dick Olver - Hindu
BAE Systems, a defence, aerospace and security company, employs 93,500 people worldwide. Its wide-ranging products and services cover air, land and naval forces, as well as advanced electronics, security, information technology, and support services. |
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India's medicine men
, Anji Reddy & Yusuf Hamied - Business Standard
Anji Reddy of Dr Reddy’s Laboratories died earlier this month. Yusuf Hamied of Cipla has decided to step down as managing director of his company, though he will continue to serve on the board as non-executive chairman. Yusuf Hamied and Anji Reddy, along with Parvinder Singh of Ranbaxy, who died in 1999, are the real pioneers of the Indian pharmaceutical industry — men of courage, conviction and vision. |
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Meet the teenage multimillionaire
, Nick D'Aloisio - Business Standard
When you see his pictures, you know he is a teenager. He just looks so. But he is an example of how fast one can grow up. Nick D' Aloisio, 17, isn't even through high school yet and he already has millions and a new job at Yahoo!. The last four months, since he began talking to investors and companies to sell his mobile application company, Summly, have been the busiest in his life. |
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An American at large
, Strobe Talbott - Economic Times
At large' is a term that fits Strobe Talbott rather well. Not so much because it has been part of his official designation on two occasions in the past — editor-at-large for Time and ambassador-at-large for the US government — as because of the free-ranging expansiveness it connotes. |
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He mas Millions and a new job at Yahoo. soon, he’ll be 18.
, Nick D’Aloisio - NYT
One of Yahoo’s newest employees is a 17-year-old high school student in Britain. As of Monday, he is one of its richest, too. That student, Nick D’Aloisio, a programming whiz who wasn’t even born when Yahoo was founded in 1994, sold his news-reading app, Summly, to the company on Monday for a sum said to be in the tens of millions of dollars. Yahoo said it would incorporate his algorithmic invention, which takes long-form stories and shortens them for readers using smartphones, in its own mobile apps, with Mr. D’Aloisio’s help. |
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MP has shown growth rate of 11.98 per cent
, Shivraj Singh Chauhan - Outlook
Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan is seen as one of the stronger CMs of the BJP. Although his name is doing the rounds as an alternative national face to project to Narendra Modi, Chauhan himself says he is focusing on the state where assembly polls are due later this year. He also refuses to say anything on Modi. |
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Rahul Gandhi’s outsider Madhusudan Mistry churning the insides in Karnataka
, Madhusudan Mistry - Economic Times
Madhusudan Mistry, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi's pointsman for Karnataka, is taking nothing for granted even as analysts predict a BJP rout in assembly polls. This 68-year-old unassuming politician from Gujarat shrugged off the tag of an outsider to emerge as the man Gandhi has been increasingly turning to for organisational matters. |
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Beginning of the endgame?
, Subrata Roy Sahara - Mint
India’s capital market regulator and Subrata Roy Sahara are at war with each other. Sahara’s managing worker and chairman has stepped up his offensive against the regulator, which asked the Supreme Court on 15 March that he be detained for allegedly flouting its directions. |
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A quieter Alagiri returns where he once reigned
, MK Alagiri - Indian Express
After a reluctant stint in Delhi that will be remembered only for the absence of activity, the DMK's one-time strongman of the southern districts, M K Alagiri, is returning to a different river. He is no longer who he was, nor is Madurai what is was. |
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Mulayam, enigmatic as ever
, Mulayam Singh Yadav - Indian Express
Not even his closest aides have a clue how Mulayam Singh Yadav will move in the wake of the DMK's pullout from the UPA. Keeping everyone guessing is characteristic of the wily politician whenever the stakes are high, as is the case now with the Congress-led government's survival depending on what he chooses to do. |
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Giving people the gift of life
, K Anji Reddy - Hindustan Times
It is often a cheap dose of medicine that stands between life and death for millions of Indians. For K Anji Reddy, the founder of one of India’s leading pharma companies, the delivery of affordable medicine was a dream that he translated into a reality. Sadly, the man who had a dazzling knowledge of pharmacology could not find the right drug to save his own life.
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Tryst with dynasty
, Sonia Gandhi - Economist
“MADAM”, say sycophants in the ruling Congress party, “has taken politics in India to a new plane.” They gush over Sonia Gandhi, who is marking a record 15 years as party chief. Stern but motherly, she is India’s most powerful figure. Manmohan Singh may be prime minister, but she has more clout: overseeing the ruling coalition and the make-up of cabinets, and influencing policy. And she is preparing her son, Rahul Gandhi, for high office, though his only qualification is his name. |
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Faces corruption charges, again
, Veerappa Moily, Petroleum Minister - Business Standard
Petroleum Minister Veerappa Moily is no stranger to corruption charges. These have come at regular intervals during a stellar political career. Unlike other politicians, Moily has never had charges of murder or kidnapping levelled against him: it has always been… corruption, most of them unproven; but you know what they say about smoke and fire. |
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