Two years back you only had to hit Marine Drive, Mumbai’s seaside esplanade, to sense the stock market madness. Every hundred metres you’d whizz past a giant billboard advertising this or that company’s flotation
Read full article...Hillary Clinton descended on the city for the weekend and brought gridlock in her wake. For some reason, the authorities thought shutting down key traffic lights a vital anti-terrorist measure - perhaps to entrap Al Qaeda operatives in a honking morass of black and yellow cabs
The terror finally took hold of my companion when the air hostess started demonstrating how to wrap your hands around your seat cushion in the event of crashing into the sea
His hair is greyer, and his thick, black, Peter Sellers-style bureaucrat’s glasses a fraction slimmer. But otherwise, India’s new finance minister, Pranab Mukherjee, could have stepped through a time warp from the last time he delivered a national budget 25 years ago in the last days of Indira Gandhi
It may be cutting costs to the bone back home in the Midlands but Jaguar Land Rover is not shy of extravagance when it needs to keep up appearances
The long, sweltering wait for this year's monsoon rains has brought a stream of anguished moans over email, Facebook and the like. It's more than two weeks late in the city, the latest it has been for about 20 years
There is no Indian billionaire more elusive than Pallonji Shapoorji Mistry, known as the "Phantom of Bombay House" for his behind-the-scenes presence at the headquarters of Tata Group.
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Mumbai's international departure terminal has become very swish indeed, I noticed when I flew back there on Friday night.
For Marten Pieters, Vodafone's new India boss, the election battle that really mattered was still raging as the winning Congress Party and its coalition ally DMK squabbled over who would get the telecoms ministry
Few places can have celebrated India's election result with the kind of frenzy I saw as I arrived in Kolkata on Sunday night. But then again, few other places have endured 32 long years of Communist Party rule.
So Ratan Tata has finally come out against the British Government’s reluctance to stump up funds to support Jaguar Land Rover
On election day, they say, all Indians are equal. The slum dweller votes alongside the billionaire’s wife. But when Indian media baron Subhash Chandra or socialite journalist Shobhaa De turned up to vote at the polling station in Cuffe Parade, they were whisked straight to the front of the half-hour-long queue, followed by a clattering mêlée of photographers
The market is going down: it’s going to be a hung parliament,” said Russell Pinto, the garrulous Goan who owns the business centre where I work on Saturday. He had just sold off all his shares
What had the Mumbai chattering classes aggravated last week was the Samajwadi Party's manifesto, which wants to cut the use of computers, farm machinery and the English language. Voting in the world's biggest general election started last Thursday, and will move to both Uttar Pradesh, where democratic socialist Samajwadi has its stronghold, and Mumbai, this Thursday.
Back in early 2007, I met a British banker who had been based in India since the early Nineties, and headed what was then one of the country's most successful M&A teams.
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