Truckmaker puts Delhi’s roads on the map
Financial Times October 29 2008 Vikram Lal saw a business opportunity where others saw only chaos. He is the driving force behind Eicher Maps, which in 1996 published the first […]
Category Archives: Business
Tenacity in the face of prejudice
Financial Times October 15, 2008 If Kiran Mazumdar Shaw had had her way, she would have been a brewer. Inspired by her father, a brewmaster at United Breweries, Ms Mazumdar […]
Financial advice for India’s burgeoning middle classes
Financial Times June 27, 2008 As the country becomes wealthier, so more people need help in navigating the crowded investment landscape. As a General Electric employee working in business development […]
Hard graft
Financial Times June 12, 2008 Within the first couple weeks of arriving in India, I asked an Indian friend whether corruption was really as widespread as I had heard. To […]
Flush with success
Financial Times May 16, 2008 Bindeshwar Pathak has devoted his life to an unusual cause. In 1970 he founded Sulabh a non-governmental organisation based in Delhi that builds clean toilets […]
Marriage at the click of a button
Financial Times March 18, 2008 The aftermath of the dotcom bubble in 2001 was a bad time to be launching an internet start-up, particularly one specialising in matrimonial listings for […]
India finds cheap energy may be an easy nut to crack
Financial Times March 10 2008 When police bring the traffic to an abrupt halt in Raipur, capital of the remote Indian state of Chhattisgarh, drivers know what to expect next. […]
A disciple of Japanese quality management
Financial Times January 28, 2008 Order and efficiency are hallmarks of the TVS motorbike factory near Bangalore in southern India. To direct foot traffic, arrows are painted on the shiny […]
India mobilises for a rural revolution
Financial Times 6 August 2007 The small town of Fatehpur in eastern India’s Bihar state is about seven hours’ drive from the nearest big city. Reaching it requires a journey […]
A flexible strategy to drive away tension
Financial Times July 9, 2007 In India the ancient and formerly esoteric practice is now a must for stressed-out truck drivers and soldiers. Driving in India is a harrowing […]
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