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	<title>Business Standard Blogs</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Any takers for Unified India?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.business-standard.com/bhupesh/2009/05/21/any-takers-for-unified-india/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 11:49:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bhupesh Bhandari</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[India, year after year, returns a good number of people to the Forbes list of billionaires. Two of them have broken into the top echelons: Lakshmi Niwas Mittal and Mukesh Ambani. Any person from Pakistan is yet to find a place on the list. Several Indian companies have done stunning acquisitions all over the world [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What made some companies exit the race for Satyam?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.business-standard.com/bhupesh/2009/04/15/what-made-some-companies-exit-the-race-for-satyam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 07:38:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bhupesh Bhandari</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The numbers show the interest Satyam had generated amongst prospective buyers. No fewer than 149 registered first. Out of these, ten submitted expression of interest. In the next lap, three were rejected and three didn’t show up. Cognizant exited the night before the bids were open. Finally, Tech Mahindra bid higher than Larsen &#38; Toubro [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fraudster or martyr?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.business-standard.com/bhupesh/2009/03/23/fraudster-or-martyr/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 06:35:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bhupesh Bhandari</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s been over two months since B Ramalinga Raju confessed to cooking Satyam’s books for seven long years – for 28 quarters he faced shareholders, research analysts and his employees with a straight face. That he is guilty of the monumental fraud, everybody is convinced. That he is all evil, not everybody buys that. 
People in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Death of an executive</title>
		<link>http://blogs.business-standard.com/bhupesh/2009/02/18/death-of-an-executive/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:13:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bhupesh Bhandari</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Neelkanth Ratnakar Dongre died last week. He was 64. No obituaries were written. Except for friends and family, nobody seems to have taken notice. But those who have followed the capital’s corporate scene closely will tell you that his life was an extraordinary journey of ups and downs. 
He started out in the 1960s at DCM [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Private scams</title>
		<link>http://blogs.business-standard.com/bhupesh/2009/02/17/private-scams/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:58:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bhupesh Bhandari</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever since the Satyam scandal broke out in early January, unsuspecting Indians have once again got to see the seamier side of India Inc. This is a big blow to Indian businessmen. Otherwise, they were role models for the youth. They bought assets all over the world, hobnobbed with global decision makers, rode in fancy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who first thought of the Big Push?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.business-standard.com/bhupesh/2008/12/09/who-first-thought-of-the-big-push/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.business-standard.com/bhupesh/2008/12/09/who-first-thought-of-the-big-push/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 08:04:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bhupesh Bhandari</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Governments the world over, rich and not-s-rich alike, have announced they will invest billions of dollar to prop up their economies. Money has become dearer and jobs everywhere are being brutally axed. Paranoid consumers are reluctant to make new purchases. Governments want to solve this situation by putting money in the hands of consumers. Keynesian economics is back [...]]]></description>
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