Books that shaped my life: Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Arabian Sands and more
Tom Wright, GM (India, Middle East, Africa And Pakistan), Cathay Pacific Airways talks about the books that have made him what he is today.The American company entrusted with the task of producing fine collectibles, Franklin Mint has brought out a gold coin featuring the Taj Mahal. Of the million metaphors attached to black and white, the one that conjures up images of piano keys is perhaps the most pleasant one. The emerald isles of Andaman are quite correctly feted for their wildness and beauty, but probably the best way to see this wonderful archipelago is to go under the waves and discover the magical world of coral reefs.Ask him for his fashion mantra and all he'll say is "You gotta feel good to look good."Fast cars, bikes and boats. Racing tidbits from around the world.Get a taste of the world's best cigars at the Delhi international airport's swank new terminalSyndicate racing is the new sex at the country's premier turf clubs as a new league of hopeful and enterprising investors pool in resources to buy, train and race champions. A report.Delhi's Select Citywalk Mall has launched a styling service for anyone willing to shell out cash for dash. With a team of stylists helping you pick out your clothes, accessories and style, filmstar looks are assured.Celebrity chef Ian Kittichai's swank new restaurant in Mumbai offers enough surprises, flavours and ambience to become one of the city's hot spots.
1999: India Inc on Wall Street
Back in 1999, Infosys Technologies had revenues of just $100 million and employed about 3,700 people. In March that year, it became the first Indian company to be listed on an American stock exchange when it debuted on the Nasdaq.Dalal Street had been abuzz with rumours of a rift between the Ambani brothers after their father's death in 2002.Despite the setback and some lingering concerns about the safety procedures on its aircraft, Captain G.R. Gopinath's Air Deccan went ahead with its expansion plans and introduced flights on several routes. From a small trader of polyester yarn in the 1960s, who started the business with just Rs 15,000, to creating a petrochemicals giant, it was a meteoric rise for Dhirubhai.2010: Scams, Scandals and Shame
If there were two words to describe 2010, they would be graft and grime. You had Lalit Modi, land scams, Suresh Kalmadi and Niira Radia prove that honesty in public life was a distant dream.2007: BSE Sensex crosses 20,000
The Bombay Stock Exchange's 30-share Sensitive Index, or Sensex, which had taken a little over two decades to cross 10,000 in February 2006, doubled in just 20 months.Singur was a nondescript town in West Bengal till Tata Motors chose it as the manufacturing location for its small car, the Nano, in May 2006.2005: Offshoring goes mainstream
The world got Bangalored in 2005. By 2004, there were three Indian IT services companies with billion-dollar revenues - TCS, Infosys and Wipro. At nearly Rs 8,000 crore, the Satyam scam was among the biggest in corporate India and tarred the image of the snow white IT industry. On November 26, 2008, Mumbai stopped for almost four days, although train services were resumed within six hours of the attacks on CST.1995: Mobile services come calling
Two politicians - West Bengal Chief Minister Jyoti Basu and Union Communications Minister Sukh Ram - were the first official users of cellphones in India.The National Stock Exchange (NSE) launched its operations which went on to change the face of the markets by ushering in technology-based trading.1993: An IPO that flew; and how
Infosys Technologies, today the bellwether IT stock in India, was far from a favoured pick 18 years ago. At 37, Harshad Mehta had everything going for him. The New India Assurance employee-turned stockbroker was living in a 15,000 sq.ft. plush apartment with a swimming pool in up-market Worli. A comatose economy and a deep fiscal crisis. It was a mountain to climb for the Cambridge-educated former bureaucrat Manmohan Singh, when he rose to present India's Budget on July 24, 1991. Savour the highs and the lows, the hits and the misses. We hope you enjoy it as much as the team that put it together.
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