October 2006

Illusion and Dream

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I was presented with a “Thakumar Jhuli” on my 7th birthday. (For those of you who do not know what that is, go to Wikipedia…no, actually…if you are shameless enough to not know what “Thakumar Jhuli” is, then go kill yourself.) There were the regular “Lal Kamal ar Nil Kamal” stories. But the one story [...]

Tata Acquires Corus – India Inc’s Biggest Deal

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The Tatas are going to take over world’s 8th largest steelmaker in the biggest ever deal made by Corporate India. Deal valued at about $8 billion Corus 5 times bigger than Tata India’s biggest multi billion-dollar overseas corporate deal Deal to lift Tata from 65th to 5th in the global rankings The Tata-Corus combo is [...]

Poor Man’s Banker Gets Nobel for Peace

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Muhammad Yunus, renowned Bangladeshi economist, has won the Nobel peace prize this year. He has won the award jointly with Grameen Bank, his own creation. He is the fourth Bengali to receive the Nobel Prize – preceded by Rabindranath Tagore (1913), Mother Teresa (1979) who lived and worked in Kolkata and Amartya Sen (1998). As [...]