Word: mahseer
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September is the time India's big-game anglers pack their 10-weight rods and waders, and head to the Himalayas for a tryst with the golden mahseer, one of the fiercest freshwater fish in the world. Swollen by the monsoon, rivers gush down the rocky Himalayas - from the Ramganga in the western Himalayas to the Teesta in the east - and teem with the prized game. Living in fast-flowing currents, the mahseer is a ferocious giant - built to ascend the roaring rapids at spawning time - and gives sportfishermen a tough fight. Encounters with 40-pounders (18 kg) are commonplace...
...fishing licenses are easy to come by and cost only a few dollars, the roads are not always great - something that deters all except the most ardent, who are likely to find themselves alone amid the pine forests and scenic rapids. Fishing can go on past sundown, as the mahseer is known to take at night...
...idealism. Tata Sons, the holding company that manages the group, is 66% owned by 11 charitable trusts, which spent $379 million on social causes in 2003-04. Other Tata companies donated an additional $97.8 million. Beneficiaries range from educational, health and scientific institutes to the Ganges River's giant mahseer fish, saved from extinction by a Tata-funded breeding program...
...owned by 11 charitable trusts, which spent $379.2 million on social causes in 2003-04 alone. Over the following 12 months, Tata companies donated another $97.8 million. Beneficiaries range from a host of Tata educational, health and scientific institutes that dot India to the Ganges River's giant mahseer fish, saved from extinction by a Tata-funded breeding program. The group's corporate piety extends to the boss's pay. Though the business house carries his name, Ratan Tata merely draws a salary from Tata Sons. And while hardly poor, he takes personal modesty seriously. Tall, guarded and retaining...
...owned by 11 charitable trusts, which spent $379.2 million on social causes in 2003-04 alone. Over the following 12 months, Tata companies donated another $97.8 million. Beneficiaries range from a host of Tata educational, health and scientific institutes that dot India to the Ganges River's giant mahseer fish, saved from extinction by a Tata-funded breeding program...