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Time passes slowly in India, but not for Sunil Mittal. Four years ago, the 45-year-old entrepreneur was a bit player in the Indian telecommunications market, the owner of cellular franchises in Delhi and the small neighboring state of Himachal Pradesh. Total customer base: 116,000. Today, his Bharti Tele-Ventures is the largest mobile phone company on the subcontinent. Customer base: 2.5 million. He recently wrapped up a $1 billion expansion that quadrupled the size of his network in less than a year. Mittal even completed an acquisition of a competitor?from initial offer to signed contract...
...give in to the tea-drinker’s temptation of pretentiousness (why does she like tea? “The taste,” she says). A native Korean, Song discovered her passion while backpacking through Asia. She sampled teas in Buddhist monasteries, Beijing hotels and New Delhi cafes. Returning to the states, she now studies Confucian Ethics at Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and devotes her spare time to bringing fine tea to Cambridge...
...weeks ago, the unnerving game of tit-for-tat appeared to be escalating. When Pakistan tested its Shaheen missile system (capable of delivering a nuclear warhead to the Indian capital of New Delhi) India retorted with its own provocative rocket launch within hours. Surprisingly, however, such brinkmanship may have spooked both nations enough to force a breakthrough in relations. When New Delhi announced on Wednesday that it was pulling back some of its 500,000 troops posted along its border with Pakistan, Islamabad said it would follow suit, and everyone concerned about potential nuclear holocaust in South Asia exhaled...
...These sources say that the U.S. played a key role in keeping the two nations at bay. On at least one occasion, the Pentagon's spy satellites picked up a sudden, secret build-up of Indian forces along the frontier. Washington made a 3 a.m. phone call to New Delhi warning Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's government to step back from the brink. Faced with U.S. pressure, the Indians complied...
...downpours have lessened to an occasional shower. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said that India's roll-back of troops was 'a step in the right direction' and he invited India to resume talks with Pakistan to defuse hostilities. But India refuses to see Musharraf unless Pakistan stops what New Delhi describes as 'cross-border terrorism.' Neither country has yet specified how many troops it will pull back, but India is expected to keep the bulk of its forces in Kashmir, where Muslim militants, backed by Pakistani religious extremists, are waging a 12-year long insurgency which has cost over...