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Fair business
Issue Date: Jun 30, 2009
Why the market has place for the rickshaw
a little after Slumdog Millionaire was feted at the Oscars, Bihar's chief minister Nitish Kumar decided the
film deserved a watch. He made his way to a cinema hall near his residence in a cycle rickshaw. Kumar's choice of transport had much to do with
the film he was going to watch. What better way to identify with a film celebrating the riff-raff than take the most run down mode of
transport?
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Time to be different
Issue Date: Jun 15, 2009
The new (old) government is back. The question is if it has learnt its most important lesson: how to enjoin its political agenda to the agenda of government.
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Handloom is haute
Issue Date: Apr 30, 2009
But the market is still too far for India's weavers
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The unskilled Venkataswamy
Issue Date: Apr 30, 2009
Pankaj Sekhsaria finds out why handloom is viable--yet neglected
V Venkataswamy u/s--a small sign painted in grey beside the door of a locked house in the new weavers colony of Chinnur in the Adilabad district of Andhra Pradesh. It is an image from a visit almost a decade ago, but it remains vividly etched in my mind. So does the story.
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Congratulations, it is an eye opener to other states that are thinking of such schemes.
In Hyderabad, the government...
Thanks. You have raised a very pertinent issue. My family is a great lover of Makhana and we use it in different ways. Slowly...