THE REDIFF COLUMNS

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February 7, 2000 They are India\'s most unusual business icons -- Gururaj Deshpande, Founder-Chairman of Sycamore Networks and billed as the richest Indian in the world, and his equally well-known brother-in-law N.R.Narayan Murthy, Chairman of Infosys Technologies. Both have, in terms of market...

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March 7, 2000 In mid-February, The Economic Times carried a notice under the heading \'Proclamation requiring the appearance of a person accused.\' It was issued by A R Soni, judicial magistrate at Pune, seeking the appearance of Parvez Damania, a director of Sahara Airlines and managing director...

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March 13, 2000 The entire nation is geared up for Bill Clinton\'s visit. At Dalal Street, the hawkers have agreed to clear out for a week and keep the streets clean and uncluttered; in Agra, the Taj Mahal and its precincts are being scrubbed before his arrival; and in Cyberabad turkey sandwiches...

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December 27, 1999 Richard Branson came to India, rode an elephant to his press conference and wore an achkan like Air-India\'s Maharaja mascot. The media, starved of colourful personalities and quotable quotes, made him headline news and he didn\'t let them down either. The colourful tie-up with...

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march 21, 2000 When Iridium LLC, the US $ 5-billion plus global satellite company, announced what is billed as the costliest business flameouts last week, it took down with it a hefty investment of over Rs 220 crore by Indian financial institutions (FIs). India was among the 19 strategic...

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January 1, 2000 Ever since the Indian Airlines flight from Khatmandu was hijacked, television networks and the media have been hyper-ventilating about lax security and the fact that flight IC 814 was allowed to take off from Amritsar on the instructions of a non-existent bureaucrat. Isn\'t it...

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January 10, 2000 Letters to my last column have been pouring in and I must confess that I am overwhelmed at the response. Clearly, the extent of corruption that we routinely tolerate is a great embarrassment and the reader response indicates that people are not yet completely immune to the...

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January 25, 2000 As consumers we celebrated the Delhi High Court judgement last week against the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI). The court virtually took over the independent regulator\'s job and ordered cell phone operators to reduce tariffs and rentals. It demanded that the hefty...

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January 17, 2000 The cover stories of two leading business magazines this week are on Information Technology (IT). Can the Silicon Valley miracle can be recreated in India, asks one and the other declares that this is the turning point. Indian success stories abroad--Sabeer Bhatia, Gururaj...

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Jnuary 31, 2000 There isn\'t a public meeting these days where one speaker or the other thumps his chest and declares that the 21st century belongs to India. Everybody knows the names of the Indian billionaires in Silicon Valley and even their faces are commonly recognisable thanks to their...

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April 8, 2002 It needs guts, vision, ruthlessness and strategy to get to the top - especially if you start as a Lamington Road trader of radio parts and go on to build a $1.5-billion empire. Manohar \'Manu\' Chhabria (56), who died a premature death last week following a bypass surgery, had all...

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May 3, 2002 The Home Trade story would probably spawn off a new set of studies on celebrity endorsements and the dubious manner in which mega celebrities seem to have been used as cover for a meticulously planned financial scam. Looking into the rear view mirror, one can only marvel at Home...

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