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It is the biggest challenge in India Inc – helmsman of the country’s biggest and oldest industrial empire spanning most sectors of the economy. Industrial architect Ratan Tata – Asia’s Businessman of the Year – has reinvented the Tata Group. Today, the 137-year-old business house is a transformed entity, vastly different from what it was 15 years ago. Refashioned and refocused, the organisation looks younger and in fine fettle to lead the way in the 21st century.
Sailesh Kottary profiles the mastermind and looks at his strategic advance.
The lion-hearted warrior
Sumant Dhamija on Jassa Singh Ahluwalia, a brave Sikh general
The
year was 1762. Punjab was
fighting for its freedom. Ahmad Shah Abdali, the King of Afghanistan,
Persia and parts of Central Asia and India, one of the greatest
conqueror of his time, was ranged against Jassa Singh Ahluwalia,
Padshah of the Sikhs. Earlier in the year, Ahmad Shah had inflicted a
crushing defeat on the Sikhs.
China’s changing colours
Beijing exudes energy, be it in the cyclists pedalling to work during the rush hour or hectic building activity, reports
Amar Chandel
They
are everywhere, those huge cranes used in the construction of
high-rise buildings. Because of them the joke in Beijing is that the
national bird of China is a crane. The national capital is in a
tearing hurry to change into a modern metropolis of which any
developed country would be proud.
Gentle provocateur
Recipient of this year’s Dadasaheb Phalke Award, Mrinal Sen explores the moral foibles of the middle class in his films. An appraisal of the veteran film-maker’s works by
Saibal Chatterjee
The
Dadasaheb Phalke Award hasn’t come a day too soon to Mrinal
Sen. The octogenarian Kolkata filmmaker is the 35th recipient of the
coveted prize since its inception in 1970, but the honour should have
been his at least a decade and a half ago.
Dil Mange Moore
Michael Moore’s Farenheit
9/11 won the People’s Choice Award despite not doing well at the
box office. A report by Ervell E. Menezes
When
Farenheit 9/11 won the People’s Choice documentary
award last week it surely was a momentous honour for Michael Moore who
immediately dedicated the trophy to the soldiers in Iraq because
whatever anyone may say is an unjust war.
Tribute
Bad man’s good show
Amrish Puri won over the audience both with his impassioned negative portrayals as well as comic roles, writes
M.L. Dhawan
Amrish
Puri who died on January 12 was considered the scariest villain of
Hindi cinema. He came to Bollywood to become a hero, but made his
debut as character-actor Rehmat Khan in Sunil Dutt’s Reshma Aur
Shera.
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