Indian Firms Shift Focus to the Poor
Indian companies, long dependent on hand-me-down technology from developed nations, are becoming cutting-edge innovators as they target one of the world’s last untapped markets: the poor. The trend...
View ArticleLikable India
Think of it as Harvard’s Indian summer. Earlier this month, the industrialist Anand Mahindra donated $10 million to support the teaching of the humanities at his alma mater, the largest gift to the...
View ArticleNotes from Kenya, Day 1: Lake Magadi
Recent rains mean the southern reaches of the Rift Valley are lush. Rivers and streams are in spate and sporadically flooding the road that links Nairobi with the salt-rich Lake Magadi, a two and a...
View ArticleThe Return of the Patriarch
In his return to the chief’s chair to revive the premier Indian information technology giant Infosys Technologies which he co-founded, N. Narayanamurthy is following a well-worked tradition in the...
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