Issue Dated 06 Sep 2010
Issue Dated 06 Sep 2010 (Cover design by Jyoti Thapa Mani)
Cover Story

How To Be A Banker

There could soon be new private players in banking. But will they fare better than their predecessors?

Waiting In The Wings

Two decades after the opening up of the economy, banking continues to be not only the most regulated of sectors, but also the one with the toughest of entry barriers

On Point

The next Sebi chairman has to be a visionary first, policeman second


ECONOMY:  Losing Value

The rupee goes from being shaky to becoming even weaker


In The News
TELECOM:  Larger Plans

By readjusting the promoters’ shareholding pattern, RIL will save a bundle


MINING:  Red And Green

Why controversy and delays plague Orissa’s big-ticket projects


EDUCATION:  Like Any Business

ASCI is finally waking up to misleading advertising by educational institutions


GEMS & JEWELLERY:  Showing Off

The jewellery exhibition in Mumbai shows that demand is back


WORLD BUSINESS:  Double-Dip In Europe

European economy faces the risk of sliding back into a recession, according to Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz


In Depth

Indian mineral companies are turning every foreign stone in search of raw material


PROFILE:  Realty Politik

Relatively new players in the realty space, the Lodhas are changing the landscape of Mumbai


Interviews
IN CONVERSATION:  John Donahoe

In India last week on a three-day visit, 50-year-old Donahoe spoke to BW’s Smita Lala Sengupta on the road map ahead, and on eBay India


IN CONVERSATION:  Robert Coury

Robert Coury spoke to BW’s Gauri Kamath on why Matrix is Mylan’s best investment, among other things


Columns
COMMENT:  Ashok V. Desai

The government should use Dutch auctions to buy just enough grain for the PDS, & give a dole to farmers


BOUND TOGETHER:  Nayan Chanda

The BlackBerry controversy is the result of states’ desire to assert control over information


GUEST COLUMN:  Abhishek Goenka

The revision in the Direct Tax Code Bill seems like a balancing act by the Centre to meet revenue targets


OUT OF THE BLUES:  Anjuli Bhargava

Ignorant or difficult passengers take the rules as some kind of personal affront and refuse to obey


FIFTH GEAR:  Jenny Gu

With Chinese consumers turning to luxury cars, the market is set to grow in double digits over the next five years


Tech Talk

Research shows yoga can be your best bet to bust stress; and an MIT expert says fuel cells can charge our future


In Vogue
CABIN BAGGAGE:  Let’s Pack Up

Planning to travel and worried about what you can pack your stuff into? Here are some options that can solve your dilemma


Garwal’s Valley of Flowers boasts elusive species high in the clouds, almost beyond man’s reach


Bookmark

In 'Green Gone Wrong' Heather Rogers presents a well researched account of the truth about green products ; how they are increasing consumerism instead of mitigating environmental crises


The book tells Bangalore’s story through the voices of different people focusing on the developments in language, infrastructure and communal culture


'Globish' traces not only the colonial spread of the English language, its vast contemporary sweep and how forces of geopolitics have shaped the evolutionary history of the language


The book documents 41 case studies of real internet fraud cases, across industries and countries, documented by expert fraud examiners


BW Opinion
BW OPINION:  Close By And Cheap

Thousands of barefoot doctors are in place already and can no longer be removed; we should think of how to train them more and better


Editor's Note
EDITOR'S LETTER:  The Money Changers

How has the private banking experience been since 1993? Associate editor Raghu Mohan takes a close look in our cover story.


Are BRIC Markets...

Stocks from the so-called BRIC group are starting to move in lock-step with developed market indices
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