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...world's biggest companies. Arun Sarin, a native of Madhya Pradesh in central India, is CEO of Britain's Vodafone. Three months ago, Indra Nooyi was named CEO of PepsiCo after serving five years as the U.S. beverage giant's CFO. Indians have credibility as managers, says Hemant Luthra, head of the Systems & Automotive Technologies division at Indian car-and-tractor manufacturer Mahindra & Mahindra. This was not always so. Luthra remembers visiting Hong Kong in 1991 when India's government was close to bankruptcy. "I had $100 in my pocket and if I went into a watch shop the salesmen...
...additional support from the U.S. in the form of eight military helicopters that could ferry aid to the quake region. In the Indian Kashmirian mountain village of Skee, residents received no help for five days, even though it overlooks a base for thousands of Indian troops. Army spokesman Colonel Hemant Juneja told TIME that helicopter crews were evacuating wounded soldiers and civilians alike on the basis of the severity of their injuries alone. But several days after the quake, Skee villagers said they had received no drops of food, water or medicine. All too often, say eyewitnesses in both countries...
...fired missiles, while compact enough to fit in a duffel bag, are not particularly reliable weapons. But with an estimated 350,000 of them in government caches around the globe and countless more for sale on the black market, there is an abundance of them available. Even people like Hemant Lakhani think they can get their hands...
...self-awareness by the impending nuptials. The plot threatens to descend into a soap opera from the very beginning. Struggling to end a torrid affair with her former boss, the young professional Aditi (radiantly performed by Vasundhara Das) has just days to reconsile with her arranged marriage to Hemant (Parvin Dabas), a handsome if slightly dull engineer who remains clueless to Aditi’s extramarital shenanigans...
...just the plot that has been constructed to demonstrate a clash between Easteran and Western cultural values. The relationships seem to have been constructed to demonstrate the ravages of globalization: Hemant, for example, has flown in from Houston and is clumsily out of touch with traditional Indian customs; Aditi’s cousin begins an affair with a distant Australian relative whose western norms of sexual permissiveness complicate the coupling; and the wedding planner, Mr. Dubey (Vijay Razz) threatens to become a mocking caricature of the upwardly mobile Indian, with his prized collection of digital gadgetry, dedication...