Word: anand
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...India this past summer, four years after my first, fleeting glance at a Varma painting, in a cliched attempt to reconnect with my roots. (The journey of self-discovery included a trip to the Government Museum.) At the same time, New York Times columnist and similarly second-generation immigrant Anand Giridharadas was completing a four-year tour of the country. Determined to steal my thunder, Giridharadas wrote about a transformation of the Indian population’s psyche. “They don’t crave our mayonnaise and khakis anymore... Indian accents are now cooler than British ones...
...alcohol. And in the 1980s and '90s, brewers including Guinness and Anheuser-Busch attempted to revitalize stagnant beer sectors in Europe, Australia and the U.S. with low-strength lagers. But their products often flopped because of one big problem. "They frankly didn't taste like beer," says Anand Gandesha, head of marketing at Britain's Cobra Beer...
...citizens from extremists and insurgents? How will it push economic growth and liberalization forward without triggering massive unemployment or environmental calamity? Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who begins a second term, may well have answers to those questions but he did not reveal them during the campaign. Columnist Anand Giridharadas, writing for the New York Times, summed up the Indian vote as a "big election about small things...
...Pedersen now has a dedicated phone line - 22 00, if you see anything interesting - to transfer photos automatically from any cell phone directly into VG's system. "Most newspapers view the Internet as a new distribution outlet. VG looks at it as a new way of reading," says Bharat Anand, a professor of corporate strategy at Harvard Business School who used Schibsted as the subject of an admiring case study...
...Anand's case study compared VG.no's 6 million monthly readers (it has since grown to 8 million) to NYTimes.com, which at the time had 14 million. VG got 11 page views per session and almost 10 sessions per visitor a month - both figures almost twice those at the Times when the study was done. That boosts ad rates considerably. "If VG had the Times' numbers, revenue would fall by three to four times, and the site would be a loss-making entity," says Anand...