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...machines at its processing centers to clean the local water supply. Reliance says it will invest $6 billion in retail over the next few years, with some 60-70% of that going to its distribution network. "It's the cost of providing clean, safe food to consumers," says Gunender Kapur, head of Reliance's foods business...
...University of Limerick booth, Nidhi Kapur, a middle-class mother from Delhi, sat looking over courses for her 17-year-old son Kartavya. The gap between India's top schools and the next rank of universities is huge, she explained. For a B- or C-grade student like her son, "you still want a good, solid, branded university, but the options are limited in India," despite the fact that "every family would spend anything it can for education. We're happy to give up comfortable living if it means our children will go to a good school...
Allergan's triumph was short-lived, though. The Federal Trade Commission challenged the company's Botox monopoly and ruled that it couldn't retain Reloxin. Guess who got the spoils? Medicis. "We lost the battle but got the product we wanted anyway," says Manny Kapur, Medicis' business director in Canada. "And we got to buy it with their money," adds Jonah Shacknai, chairman and CEO of Medicis...
...rent controls have kept the price of its swankiest apartments almost unchanged since 1940, encouraging landlords to let them crumble--as several blocks do, fatally, every year. Visitors to the most prestigious offices in the country in south Bombay run a gauntlet of homeless people outside. Movie director Shekhar Kapur, who returned after years in London and Los Angeles, says living in Bombay means confronting the class divide daily: "This must be one of the few places on earth where the rich try to work off a few pounds in the gym, step outside and are confronted by a barefoot...
...same tax benefits as the IT industry: if a digital animation studio can prove its finished product has been sent out of India, it is exempt from income tax. Branson and his partners - who include including best-selling author Deepak Chopra and award-winning Indian director Shekhar Kapur - are betting that Indians will respond to homegrown animated tales. India's growing middle class is tempting the world. And while India hasn't shown much of an appetite for homegrown animation to date, veteran Indian animator Ram Mohan points to the success of Hanuman, one of the first ever locally produced...