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A SPECIAL FEATURE ON MUMBAI

ECONOMY


State with the best investment environment — Mr Sushilkumar Shinde, Maharashtra Chief Minister
`Maharashtra's traditional strength in business, industry, media, entertainment and human resource has helped.' More

Mumbai: Vibrancy its other name
WHERE is Mumbai's Central Business District? Ballard Estate? Nariman Point? Cuffe Parade? No longer, and nobody is sure. Where do the richest, and the most powerful, citizens of the megapolis live? Malabar Hill? Warden Road? No longer, and, ... More

Maharashtra: Industrial and financial powerhouse
MAHARASHTRA, the country's industrial powerhouse, occupies a prominent place in the Indian economy. The State capital, Mumbai is India's commercial and financial capital and boasts the presence of all the leading ... More

The changing ethos of the working class in Mumbai
SWEAT shops and glass houses, are the new inheritors — the factory sirens that symbolised Mumbai's limitless potential for employment and a better life have fallen silent and the mill chimneys that rose proudly over the city's chawls are ... More

Pune sets a scorching pace
Tata Motors' tie-up with British car manufacturer MG Rover to make small cars for the European market and Bharat Forge's acquisition of a European forging company to emerge as become the second largest forging company in the world, has put the city's business firmly on the global map. More

Navi Mumbai — pulsating with business activities
THE most ambitious plan to decongest Mumbai was the one to create Navi Mumbai (New Mumbai), an alternative urban settlement on the mainland that would remain accessible to the island city. Conceived in the 1970s, Navi Mumbai was seen as the ... More

CORPORATE


Tata: Driving values into business
FINANCIAL year 2004 must have brought the smiles back at Bombay House, the headquarters of Tata Group. Key Tata companies have fared well, quarterly profits have been good and year-end figures are expected to follow the trend. ... More

Quietly savvy
TIMES they are a changing. Even a couple of years ago, it would have been difficult to imagine a Tata group company as an aggressive player acquiring companies in India or abroad. Yet, that is exactly what may happen ... More

The Birla sunshine
RECENTLY, when Mr Kumar Mangalam Birla, Chairman, Aditya Birla Group, was named Businessman of the Year 2003 by Business India, a colleague, far removed from business journalism, was surprised. " Would such a ... More

Godrej: A giant off the fast-lane
THE Eastern Express Highway running into Mumbai through the eastern suburbs bears testimony to the strength of the Godrej group, which has straddled the Indian industrial scene for over 100 years. The Rs 4,500-crore group may no longer be on ... More

The stamp of Ambanis
WHETHER it is Mukesh Ambani's spanking new Maybach or Anil Ambani running the Mumbai Marathon, hardly a day passes without the average Mumbaikar reading something about the Ambanis, arguably the city's first surname in ... More

FINANCIAL SERVICES


`The face of stock broking has changed' — Mr Motilal Oswal, Chairman, Motilal Oswal Securities
Motilal Oswal Securities has emerged as one of the biggest retail broking firms in India with its offices spread across 123 cities and town. Its Chairman, Mr Motilal Oswal, feels the stock-broking business needs change with the broker's role ... More

How to bring millions of investors into market
FOR a country of India's size, the retail participation of investors in equity market seems disproportionately low. The number of depository participant accounts with National Securities Depository Limited (NSDL) ... More

INVESTMENTS


Behavioural finance as investment concept
BEHAVIOURAL finance is a new subject in the field of finance and is very popular in stock markets across the world for investment decisions. However, in India, this subject is not used too much in the stock market. But Mr Parag Parikh, Chairman ... More

INFRASTRUCTURE


`Mumbai is not moving; South India is' — Mr Deepak Parekh, Chairman, HDFC
I do not think that Mumbai is being deliberately sidelined. Actually, the problems are too many. Industry has been vocal about its needs for the city. More

SHIPPING


(S)Porting history
The Mumbai Port has weathered many a storm, like wars, famines, plague, recession, strike and a major explosion in the dock, in its long and winding history, and has risen to new heights, making Mumbai prosperous. More

A tale of two ports
IT is a classic tale of two ports. It is the tale of how one port came up to support the older one and subsequently how the two began to poach on each other's revenue in a game of fierce competition. Finally, it is the tale of how the two ports ... More

PERSONAL PRODUCTS


FMCG sector — in a lather
THE fast moving consumer goods sector has been in news often in recent times for the wrong reasons. It has been an island of lacklustre growth in an economy raring to go on the back of an excellent monsoon. It has seen bitter price wars, erosion ... More

LIFESTYLE


Eating out, myriad ways
EATING out in Mumbai means different things. It can be a quick snack on the move, munching a corn on the cob while gazing at the sea, a long slow dinner in one of the city's myriad restaurants or any other option that suits the need of the ... More

The stuff dreams are made of
MUCH before I actually saw Bombay, I was hooked to it. Playing Monopoly at a very young age, I became familiar with the names of various places in the city and was delighted to buy property at Marine Drive, Grant Road and so on. Even some 60 ... More

EDUCATION


Role of businesses in education
AT a recent seminar, SNDT University's Vice-Chancellor Ms Rupa Shah pointed out that a graduate, when takes up a job, needs a further grinding of some three months before he is ready to take up his functions. "Why can't we make him a finished ... More

CONSULTING


Winds of change in consultancy biz
MUMBAI is a microcosm of India. Whatever happens to India is happening in Mumbai on a comprehensive scale. That is why the changing environment for management consultants in Mumbai spells a change in the way consultants operate throughout ... More

STOCK EXCHANGES


BSE — from banyan tree to the biggest bourse
THE journey of the BSE is as eventful and interesting as the history of India's securities markets. Its current status as the country's biggest bourse in terms of corporate listings and market capitalisation has roots in more than a century of ... More

MUMBAI THROUGH THE LENS


All in a day's work at Crawford Market

A portrait of success
Thinking out of the box Taking a break near Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus

Another face, at the Dhobi Ghat A new train of thought at the World Social Forum 2004


A moment at the Mumbai International Marathon

FASHION


Dressed to please
WHEN mini-skirts became a rage in the late 60s, one of the most renowned British photographers of the 20th century Sir Cecil Beaton said, "Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to ... More

CINEMA


Hit or miss, the show goes on
SAY Bollywood and it's Mumbai (Bombay to some) that comes to mind. The city is the birthplace of Hindi cinema, and it is from here that cinema grew and expanded its family across the country. This is the town where this multi-crore industry ... More

FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS


`Mumbai personifies India's ability to cope' — Mr M. Damodaran, CEO, IDBI and UTI
DEFTLY cast, irreverence can be a useful charm. And Mr Meleveetil Damodaran, the burly chief executive of IDBI and UTI, does it with aplomb. "Every time I open my mouth, I seem to make enemies," Mr Damodaran says, ... More

SHOPPING


Shopping the suburbia way
THE Bhandaris came to Bombay from Ahmedabad in 1977 on official transfer and settled down in a two-bedroom flat in Bandra. As one who enjoyed her shopping, Leela Bhandari explored all the avenues in Bandra. But she was ... More

Pavements of prosperity
MUMBAI's streets may not be paved with gold, but there's lots of cash on them, perhaps crores per kilometre. And every ten metres there is a success story too. Anything is available on these pavements — from humble ballpens to the latest ... More

ADVERTISING


Lower Parel to Upper Worli
THE history of modern Mumbai as we know it is inextricably woven into the development of the mills that symbolised the industrialisation of India. Mumbai's mill area, Lower Parel, thus formed the backbone for the growth of Mumbai from a marshy ... More

TOURISM


It's `Maharashtra Unlimited' on tourism front
THE marketing success of the Kerala Tourism Development Corporation's `God's Own Country' campaign has changed the way States promote tourism. With Governments realising the tourism potential of their local arts and crafts, more funds have ... More

BOOKS


A quiet getaway for book-lovers
AT Churchgate, a book lover can turn right and go to the air-conditioned confines of the Oxford book store, browse through a large collection of alphabetically indexed gleaming new books, pick a few and flip through them while sipping a steaming ... More
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