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The Accidental Businessman
When N.K Chaudhary set up his first carpet weaving loom, it was almost on a lark. But then he discovered a passion for the art and today, his Rs. 67.75 crore company, Jaipur Rugs, employs a huge network of weavers
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Ratul Puri: "PV has played out to the assumptions on a text book basis"
Ratal Puri of Moser Baer discusses his strategy as he switches focus from Optical storage to Photovoltaics
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"Movies written by WGA members must be respected"
Deborah Schindler, president of International Motion Picture Production, Sony Pictures, feels people from Hollywood tend to impose their own sensibilities on Bollywood but they need to learn to accept differences
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Akhil Gupta: Dreaming Big
For Akhil Gupta, deputy CEO of Bharti Enterprises, dealing with new challenges — and raising money for them — has never been a problem
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Manoj Kohli: "We Need to Build a Global Business Model"
Manoj Kohli, managing director, Bharti Airtel Ltd, joined Airtel in 2002 and has steadily risen to take charge of its operations. Forbes India spoke to Kohli about his Airtel stint, the journey so far and where he is headed from here
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AZP Partners : "There are now more clear-cut, professional agreements in Bollywood"
Purnima Singh of Senior Associate for AZP Partners tells Forbes India feels that with Bollywood moving from spoken agreements to written ones, Hollywoods' copyright worries should come down
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Ronnie Screwvala: "New Generation Filmmakers are Very Conscious of Copyright"
Ronnie Screwvala, UTV Group CEO, tells Forbes India that audiences are reacting more to local idea than Hollywood-inspired movies
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The Unfinished Agenda
Development economist Jean Dreze, an Indian of Belgian origin, was a key influence in the original design of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS). Here, he talks about the idea behind the scheme and the loopholes that need to be plugged
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A Ticket to Better Education
Why should impoverished children be forced to only attend poorly run government schools, asks Parth Shah. That's why his Delhi-based non-profit, Centre for Civil Society, is rooting for education vouchers which allow parents and not bureaucrats to choose what school the child goes to
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A Model for the Newborn
Dr. Abhay Bang has achieved a dramatic decrease in infant mortality rate by empowering local women with the knowledge they need to take care of babies
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Nandan Nilekani:'This is a Sales Job'
Nandan Nilekani is getting ready to manage the most technologically challenging and largest scale project he has ever handled: the national identity project. Here, he tells Forbes India how the skills he learnt at Infosys will help him in the new assignment