Word: rakesh
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...giga-charmer Shahrukh Khan, 36, to suave, elaborately muscled Hrithik Roshan, 28 (all three graced the 2001 blockbuster Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham). Bollywood operates under the vulture eyes of a voracious entertainment press and under the shadow of organized crime. Two years ago, Hrithik's father, director Rakesh Roshan, was shot (though not fatally) after he reportedly refused a "request" for his son to appear in an underworld-financed film...
...Rakesh Dubey did what many young Indians have done to get a future: he went abroad. In this case, it was to the U.S. for a master's degree in genetics. Then Dubey made a major mistake. He went home to find a job. "I would have taken anything, anywhere in India," he says--but 80 job applications, many to multinational seed companies needing geneticists, landed him nowhere. Many firms shunned him precisely because he had gone abroad and returned to India. "They were suspicious," Dubey says. "They wondered, 'Unless there was something wrong with the guy, why would...
...Rakesh Dubey did what many young Indians have done to get a future: he went abroad. In this case, it was to the U.S. for a master's degree in genetics. Then Dubey made a major mistake. He went home to find a job. "I would have taken anything, anywhere in India," he says--but 80 job applications, many to multinational seed companies needing geneticists, landed him nowhere. Many firms shunned him precisely because he had gone abroad and returned to India. "They were suspicious," Dubey says. "They wondered, 'Unless there was something wrong with the guy, why would...
Indians are running FORTUNE 500 companies (Rono Dutta is president of United Airlines, and Rakesh Gangwal is president and CEO of U.S. Airways) or, as consultants and securities analysts, telling others how to do so. (Calcutta-born Rajat Gupta, managing director of consulting giant McKinsey & Co., does both.) But above all, they are bringing their own entrepreneurial stamp to America's high-tech frontiers. Venture-capital fund Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, one of Silicon Valley's biggest VC firms, says 40% of its portfolio consists of companies founded or managed by people of Indian origin. Indians have...