A trend that needs reversingGoing abroad to study, especially to do higher education or specialisation, has always been an attractive option for scores of Indian students who can afford it. And, this is not merely because quality education is unavailable in the country, but, for the sheer adventuris...
“When Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayeeji was about to enter as the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate for a full five-year term, I wrote to him asking whether all his prospective ministers were in a ‘mission-ready’ state, or do they need training in the nuances of governance? If not so, I requested ...
Way back in 2008, when Arjun Shetty and his wife Rati, both working in Seattle, USA, were exploring various options which included re-locating to India, they started looking for financing avenues for setting up their home in Chennai. “We found the system to be laborious. We had to go from pillar t...
Jain International Trade Organisation (JITO), a worldwide organization of Jain businessmen, industrialists, knowledge workers and professionals organised JITO CONNECT 2018, a three-day event that focused on a conclave, business networking and a trade fair, Chennai from February 23 to 25, 2018. Mr. B...
There are many firsts for this pioneering company, rooted in the culture of South India, with not just a pan-India outlook, but also an international stature. The TVS brand stands for Trust, Value and Passion – for customers and exactness. “We are the only two-wheeler company to have received th...
For the Millennials, Prime Minister Modi’s Make in India campaign is a novel approach towards making the country self-reliant and self-sufficient. But, for Dilip Kumbhat, the word ‘indigenization’ had already set into his psyche as far back as 1978. With an education in engineering and a famil...
Bakery breads, a product, once synonymous with the European breakfast, set root in the Madras of yore during the heydayof the British and other Europeans who invaded, settled and did various kinds of businesses in the port city. In recorded history, the last two decades of the 1800s was when some en...
Thirty years ago, when Sathish Babu started his corporate sales career as a trainee sales officer with Eureka Forbes, it was almost initiation by fire. Within a few weeks of on-the-job training, he was thrown into the deep end of the pool and given a dictum – sell or perish!“It may have been the...
According to a popular adage, ‘to carry coals to Newcastle’ is foolish. But, M. Mahadevan proved that phrase wrong when, way back in the early 1980s, he launched Hot Breads and took the lowly baked bread to a totallydifferent dimension.But, let’s go back a bit, to the late 1970s when, a night ...
If the bubble of dotcom had not gone bust way back in the late 90’s, Murugavel Janakiraman probably would have been just another cog in the constantly spinning gears of the IT world. “Even when that happened and my career as a consultant in the IT sphere was at stake, I could have stuck ou...