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EDITION: 10 September, 2010
Podcast
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Forbes India 13th Anniversary: Rewind of Key Milestones of India's Corporates and Startups
A rewind of the key milestones in India's corporates and startups, through the lens of 13 years of Forbes India
Greyscale
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Indian Techies Working Abroad On Choppy Waters
Body shop or chop shop? The Indian presence in the US job market is under the spotlight again
Boardroom
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Bharat Forge's Trial By Fire
Baba Kalyani used the economic slowdown as a test bed for an entirely new plan to take Bharat Forge to the big league
Cross Border
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Crest Animation: In Search Of The Happily Ever After
No Indian has cracked the American animation movie market so far. Most are content with outsourced work, but A.K. Madhavan is taking a creative leap into Hollywood
Magazine Extra
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Kishore Biyani launches Forbes India's latest issue
Forbes India caught up with Future Group’s Kishore and Ashni Biyani for a chat about how they coped with the recession, the concept of ‘core competence’ and more
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Kishore Biyani Talks Shop
Watch Ashni and Kishore Biyani talking about Future Group's strategy. The father-daughter duo who head India's top retail business were at the launch of Forbes India's September 10, 2010 issue.
Photos
Recliner
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You Are What You Eat
How the food we eat is contributing to our ‘lifestyle diseases’ epidemic
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Being Beckham
Forget the Pele versus Maradona debate. David Beckham may not have been the world’s most talented footballer, but he certainly created a place all his own
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The Ultimate Gadget Survival Guide
Surviving in the wilderness takes grit, cunning and/or the latest gadgets
Work in Progress
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Bestsellers From Flipkart
Flipkart’s Sachin and Binny Bansal created a premier service by focussing on ‘predictable efficiency’. But in online retail, to adapt is to survive
Special
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Amul's Non Co-operative Movement
Infighting at the top, a stalled AGM, and a possible loss of the brand Amul are not the only troubles facing GCMMF. Now the leadership crisis at the milk co-operative is making some take a relook at the model
Appraisals
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The Maruti Story
A rare insight into how a few determined entrepreneurs created an icon
On Assignment
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India's River Power
States are setting up run-of-the-river power projects to avoid resettlement issues associated with large dams. But the projects have their own drawbacks
Briefing
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India's Wheat Dilemma
Traders and economists are divided on the impact on India of the surge in global wheat prices
Real Issue
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Maxx Mobile: The Shanzhai Warrior
Ajjay Agarwal's Maxx Mobiles is among the clutch of upstarts that used off-the-shelf technology to erode Nokia's dominance in India's mobile phone market. Will the tribe survive the perils of scale?
Expat Diary
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Matthew Barney: Engineers Are To Indians What Rock Stars Are To Americans
American Matthew Barney, who heads Infosys Leadership Institute, is pleasantly surprised by the intellectual curiosity of Indians
Ex-Libris
F-index
Big Bet
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Kishore Biyani is Back From the Brink
Kishore Biyani led the retail revolution in India but was also guilty of trying out too many things. A full-blown crisis later, he is ready with an equally grand but a more sedate growth plan
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Mahindra Goes Where Angels Fear To Tread
Mahindra the fourth owner of SsangYong is hoping that its acquisition of the Korean auto company will be a lucky break for them both
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Patni's Jeya Kumar Has A Magic Idea
Patni's Jeya Kumar is urging employees to become entrepreneurs inside the company and in the process discover the firm's next spurt of growth
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Vedanta's Energy Philosophy
Why Anil Agarwal's mining conglomerate is taking a dip in the oil sector
Breakpoint
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Taxing Intangible Marketing: The Bright Line
A court order helps the taxman go after the money paid by local firms to overseas parents towards brand royalty
Nuggets
Tip-Off
Rearview
Close Range
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Adobe's Shantanu Narayen on His Flash Point
"In the Mobile Internet era there is no room for walled gardens like Apple keeping Flash out"
Resolution
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Carving Up the Internet
Google and Verizon want network neutrality to end in the wireless world, so they can charge more to prioritise certain services. That idea may not be as evil as the world thinks
Column
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The Biyani Makeover
Letter From the Editor: The downturn in 2008 may have been the best thing for Biyani. He admits as much. Quite simply, he had to learn the science of retailing the hard way
Ask the Insider
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Casting Couch in Publishing?
Powerful (or overworked) editors; starving (or glamorous) authors; a dying (or booming) industry publishing can look mystifying from the outside. We put your questions to Ravi Singh, Publisher at Penguin Books, India
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