BIRTHDAY BASH: It's a whopper! From Kalam to Tharoor, from PC to MS, Barrett to Mukesh Ambani, Ken Livingstone to Mark Mobius, the issue has 24 top minds gauging the strong points and fault lines of India

DECODING BLUEPRINT: After a whistle-stop tour of India, Michael Dell has hinted at shifting base and billions of dollars to come after him. A tech-tonic shift, indeed

BUDGET BLUES: Let's be frank. It wasn't the best of a Budget we could gulp down or one that went well with the growth story. As some say it was a "non-Budget," But was it?...
You can feel it in the air, you can see it in the body language, you can sense it in the tone of voice of India's youth. Management graduates turn down foreign postings, and the crores that come with it, for a job at home. They know India is rising It is where the future is; it will emerge a superpower in time. Once seen as a land of snake charmers, now IT geeks, India is set to gain respect as a nation of a billion brains, a billion buyers... Join us for a closer look and feel.

   
     
 
TOP MINDS: President APJ Abdul Kalam , Kumar Mangalam Birla, HS Lheem, Mark Mobius, G Madhavan Nair, Vivek Paul, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Shashi Tharoor  
Once, India had a simple and subdued soul. Its people were poor but contented. A repast of dal-roti was considered a virtue. But today's globalising India is different. Its soul is aspirational, acquisitive and aggressive.The larger India that has tasted the blood of comforts is baying for more. Time to think of inclusive growth, time to think of enablers. Best of India's minds mull over solutions. Read on...
 

   
     
 
TOP MINDS: P Chidambaram, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Mukesh Ambani, Rahul Bajaj, Craig Barrett, Jean Dreze, Vijay Govindarajan, Farida Khambata, Ken Livingstone, NR Narayana Murthy, Sanjay Nayar, RK Pachauri, Sam Pitroda, GV Prasad, Ashok Soota, MS Swaminathan  

OTHER STORIES
AMERICA'S SWEETHEART!
India is fast climbing the charts of America's most favoured nations. Many US corporations are shifting base

£ DATES RE
It's payback time for the Raj, as Britain rolls out the red carpet for all things Indian, specially investments

WAKING UP TO INDIA DREAM
Europe is moving closer to India. Italy is on a full-blooded mission to make up for lost time

NO FULL STOPS HERE
Placed at the epicentre of the flat world, everything is going for India except policy

GLOBAL HAUNT
Foreign investors are pumping in more into the market, but domestic savers are no less enthusiastic

MIND & MATTER
The creative potential of Indians is the cracker when it comes to R&D investments

CORE CONCERNS
It's an elephantine task to build an infrastructure that backs the growth trend. Nothing less than $300-350 billion would do

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