Hunt for next top Tata man seems an inside job
One of India's mightiest conglomerates needs a new chief and the country is following the drama like a Bollywood movie
Asian sirens cast a spell but leave some things to be desired
They're robust and the road to the future, but our nearest and dearest could resolve to do better
ASIA'S monumental sporting events change nations; indeed, that seems to be the point of the billions lavished on them.....and so it was supposed to be for India and its Commonwealth Games that have just come to a close in Delhi, the biggest single global event yet staged by India
THE best Asian budget airline story I’ve heard was in 2006, while taking a short walk in Pakistan’s Hindu Kush to visit the old princely state of Chitral, a Shangri-la where Osama bin Laden is said to be enjoying the alpine air and hospitality
He'd rather be nude: how an expat found peace and business success
IN AN ERA of Enrons and HIHs, Opes Primes and Chartwells, an unusual French-born businessman in India may well be the corporate antidote for this age of greed
India: just as messy as it has always been
Booming, business-mad India is not the full story, as Eric Ellis discovers, to his cost
The former Australian batsman's "terrorist" slur on a South African player came as no surprise to those who have followed Jones' crass commentating career
India's bureaucracy is a bummer for the boom
Economic growth is yet to improve the ground-level conditions for business in India
East & Eden
For a truly inspiring Asian experience step off the well-trodden path. The top
10 must-visit holiday hotspots
Tales and tigers at Kipling Camp
The exceptional wildlife viewing at India's most famous jungle encampment rivals the exploits of its patriarch
It has improved the bottom line for multinationals and has fueled a boom in one of the world’s fastest-growing economies. Yet the outsourcing of call centre jobs to India is set to become an Australian election issue
Eric Ellis visits Kipling Camp where a retired British major recounts yarns from his 'caddish' life at a nation
The dying man, the maharajah and a cache of priceless jewels
ERIC FOY NISSEN settles into an armchair in his cluttered Bombay flat and considers his dilemma; one that a Merchant or Ivory might craft into a sumptuous film about colonial derring-do, frontiersmanship and family intrigues in 19th-century India.
Executive gets down to bare essentials
A middle-class Frenchman turned Hindu monk has the faithful in India kissing his feet, Eric Ellis reports
The baggy greens mix it with turbans and Shane Warne and Ricky Ponting speak Hindi down the corporate end of Australia's one-day tour. After all, Aussie cricketers are as gods in this cricket-obsessed land
Christian Fabre dresses down at work, but not just to polo shirt and chinos. This 62-year-old industrialist works in the nude
The House of Tata, big and historic, is one of India's most beloved companies. It is also a mess
Ta-ta to Tata in troubled times
The Perplexing Tale of India's Two Faces
Madras
The contrast between a sports hero and a fallen politico shows how the country is torn between great potential and reform-killing corruption
Bloody Hell: A Quiet Day on Bombay's Bourse
Bombay
Monday was quite a day for young Anil Parikh.
His face streaked with blood, he had been headlocked twice, had his neck pinned in a human vice several times, been mugged by a gang of seven against a marble pillar and three times he had been pushed to the ground and trampled over by a marauding mob.
His cotton shirt was ripped, and once he smeared the blood away from his left eye you could see it turning a shade more purple than his right.
And it was still only 2 pm on the floor of the Bombay Stock Exchange.
Murdoch Runs into Tough Customers
Bombay
If Mr Rupert Murdoch wants to turn Star TV into a pay-to-air operator in
India, he's going to have to talk to people like Mr Kusruh Khan, whose last job
was pumping petrol in New York City.
Rohmer V Rupert: Battle Of The Cable-wallahs
Bombay
Rohmer MacMahon may well be the media age's equivalent of the little old lady who won't budge from her semi as the hypermarket goes up around her.
Phone Reformer Finds Bureaucratic Lines Crossed
New Delhi
Mr N. Vittal thinks of himself as the Mikhail Gorbachev of India's Department of Telecommunications.
A new era dawns for the Indian economy
New Delhi
India is in a revolution.
In a transformation quieter but no less profound than that sweeping China, it is replacing decades of Marxist-style central planning and bloated bureaucracy with the free markets of Adam Smith.