Word: rajeev
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...buildings?and, even for these, worries remain. The ASI's 2004-5 budget of $58 million works out at less than $16,000 per monument?and that's before paying for 8,000 staff and the running costs of 40 ASI museums. ASI director general C. Babu Rajeev says monument protection is often reduced to a single gateman for several sites...
...under a body called the National Culture Fund is still largely unspent. Culture Secretary Neena Ranjan concedes there are "major problems" but points out the enormity of the challenge: "We do the best we can, but it's not our achievements people want to talk about." ASI director general Rajeev admits that the poor skills of the manual laborers he employs have led to some insensitive restorations, such as in Hampi, where stone and concrete buttresses now all but obscure several temples. But he adds that sometimes there's no time for subtlety: "If stones are falling down, we have...
...little boy with a baseball bat, clad in throwback simple sneakers. In India, Reebok replaced the lad with a grizzled, bearded snake charmer in a turban--with a flute and a woven, cobra-filled basket--and pristine white sneakers. Sales of Reebok footwear are growing at 30% a year. Rajeev Bakshi, chairman of Pepsico India, pushed the same idea a step further. "We took the variable of nationalism," he says. Earlier this year, for the Cricket World Cup, a sporting event in India of Super Bowl importance, Pepsi launched a fluorescent-blue cola matching the color of the wildly popular...
...little boy with a baseball bat, clad in throwback simple sneakers. In India, Reebok replaced the lad with a grizzled, bearded snake charmer in a turban?with a flute and a woven, cobra-filled basket?and pristine white sneakers. Sales of Reebok footwear are growing at 30% a year. Rajeev Bakshi, chairman of Pepsico India, pushed the same idea a step further. "We took the variable of nationalism," he says. Earlier this year, for the Cricket World Cup, a sporting event in India of Super Bowl importance, Pepsi launched a fluorescent-blue cola matching the color of the wildly popular...
...didn't really produce any numbers. He just created a hype," says Formulasys president Rajeev Karajgikar. "He's a smooth talker, a real con man. He knows exactly how to play the cards." Karajgikar says Desai's reputation was self-perpetuating. "Stories of his donating millions led people to believe in him," he says...