Word: indianism
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...year, the waft of curry overpowering the heavy Schweizerdeutsch fare. India everywhere, said the signs, and it was. The Finance Minister, Palaniappan Chidambaram, and the Commerce and Industry Minister, Kamal Nath, turned up from Delhi, as did the deputy chairman of the Planning Commission and a cluster of top Indian chief executives. An organization called the India Brand Equity Foundation left pashminas in the hotel rooms of all attendees and distributed Apple iPod Shuffles with prerecorded Indian pop music to a select few. Chefs including Atul Kochhar, the first Indian to receive a Michelin star, flew in to prepare meals...
...very profitable, and there is a dearth of Chinese brands. By contrast, "India is further along in building a productive business environment," Porter said. "It has talented high-end people with deep expertise in IT, software, pharmaceuticals. It has the opportunity to go much further." And as the Indian parties all over Davos this year proved, it already has a crop of companies - Infosys, Jet Airways and Mittal Steel - whose leaders are trying to become the next masters of the universe. Indeed, while Davos was in full swing on Friday, Mittal Steel made an audacious j18.6 billion bid for Europe...
...Bombay, the book limned the early history of photography while foreshadowing the advent of the moving image. Strange by name and nature, Sixty Lights risked alienating readers but ultimately dazzled with its precise image-making, from a gentleman's top hat set aflame in gaslight London, a dhoti-flapping Indian impaled by a shard of mirror glass, to the birth of Lucy's daughter: "She was irrefutable, glistening, a kind of absolute light." The novel was long-listed for London's Man Booker Prize...
...panel, entitled “Finding Balance in the Global Economy,” was chaired by Financial Times commentator Martin Wolf. Other participants included Palaniappan Chidambaram, the Indian finance minister; John A. Thain, chief executive of the New York Stock Exchange; and Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt...
...nearly as easy as the Dems would like. Americans still hold Democrats nearly equally responsible for corruption in the capital, and at least a handful of Democrats are themselves implicated in the alleged quid pro quo deals that were Abramoff's confessed specialty. Reid himself took campaign money from Indian tribal clients of Abramoff just days before signing a letter to Interior Secretary Gale Norton urging blockage of a casino those same clients viewed as a competitor, a move which undercut the letter Reid sent to President Bush last week arguing that Abramoff "may have had undue and improper influence...