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...Your story "City of Dreams" provided an authentic encounter with the new Bombay. It is hard to believe that so many things are happening there. But Bombay is booming only because the rest of India is booming. The city's dynamism, as you reported, owes nothing to the inept and corrupt local government. Business is succeeding because the people, especially the local workforce, have taken their fortunes into their own hands. Arabinda Pradhan New Delhi...
...butcher innocent people? It's high time the U.S. stops claiming it is liberating the Iraqi people. Americans have no business being in Iraq, and yet they have the nerve to rationalize the massacre by claiming that the Marines work under pressure. Is the U.N. sleeping? Sandeep Dawkhar Bombay...
...Indian from Bombay, I loved reading your stories about my home country [June 26]. From Tarrytown to Tallahassee, people are thinking about India. They want to know where Chennai and Hyderabad are on the map. Colleagues in the Midwest are rushing to do a stint working in India, which has come to be seen as a rung on the corporate ladder. Unlike China, which gate-crashed into Western households with everything from kitchen knives to toilet-tissue holders, India has made an unhurried entry through communication portals. But India must not allow corruption and bureaucratic incompetence to slow it down...
...wave of smuggled stones coming in from the Angolan civil war. The agreed price per carat also dropped from $12 to around $9 in the first year of the partnership. By 1996 the Australians had had enough. Argyle would try to sell directly to Indian manufacturers through a Bombay office. The cartel tried a power play: it dumped $400 million of cheap rough into India to undercut the price of Argyle's diamonds...
...After 15 years as chairman, Tata is thinking of retiring. Asked how he would spend his days, he says he gave up golf long ago and has almost no free time outside the business. On rare evenings off, he says he takes a half-hour boat ride across Bombay harbor to a small, scruffy beach house. "It seldom had power, so I had to put in a small generator," he says. "It's quiet and away from everywhere. There is a town and there are neighbors, but I go quietly on my own. I walk the beach and I read...