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...similar protests pushed Tata Motors to cancel plans to manufacture its $2,500 Nano in the village of Singur, a political debacle that contributed to the communists' severe losses in the 2009 national elections. Basu had retired in 2000, but his high-handed rule left permanent damage, says Tathagata Bhattacharya, a political observer based in New Delhi. "In effect, he made sure that left politics in a democratic framework did not have a future in India...
...without Mother Teresa." Rajib Chakraborty, a lecturer in a Kolkata college, says, "She based her work on an ideology and institutionalized it. She has influenced many people all over the world to spare a thought for the poor and the afflicted." The prized possession of prominent Bengali author Nabarun Bhattacharya is the Mother's blessings, which reached him almost, he says, by a miracle itself. "I found an original blessing signed by Mother Teresa in an old book that I had bought," Bhattacharya says, holding a yellowish postcard with Mother Teresa's blessings in her writing. "I was going through...
...Still, losing the earthly reminder of the transcendent spirit of charity and goodwill that Mother Teresa stood for is not something that many will stand for. "Everything the mother stood for - her genesis from a common nun to an eminence of world stature - happened in and around Kolkata," Bhattacharya says. "This creates a very special bond which is beyond technical claims. Nobody cares where Norman Bethune was born. He lived and died for China." It's time perhaps to rewind to how the Mother herself felt about it: "By blood, I am Albanian. By citizenship, an Indian," she once said...
...Some market observers say they expect the rally will fizzle soon because the global economy remains in the deepest recession in decades. "It's difficult for India to live in splendid isolation while the rest of the world suffers serious economic damage," says Sanjoy Bhattacharya, a partner at Fortuna Capital, an offshore hedge fund. Tough challenges remain for India's economy, too, notes Sharma. "Just because there's been a good weekend doesn't mean you can forget all our problems of fiscal deficit and lack of infrastructure growth," he says...
Globality: Competing With Everyone From Everywhere For Everything By Harold Sirkin, James Hemerling and Arindam Bhattacharya Business Plus; 292 pages...