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Lord Kumar Bhattacharyya (1940-2019): A titan amongst men passes away

Lord Kumar Bhattacharyya, always the Prof to India

When Bhattacharyya began the journey with India and CII, he was "The Prof". Later, he was made "Lord" but he was always the Prof to India
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When Bhattacharyya began the journey with India and CII, he was “The Prof”. Later, he was made “Lord” but he was always the Prof to India

Tarun Das
When the history of a new Indo-British partnership, post 1991, is written, the name of Lord Kumar Bhattacharyya will be written in letters of gold.

He pushed the economic and industrial relationship higher and higher, breaking new ground and building new pathways. The Warwick Manufacturing Group took special leadership, bringing the best of manufacturing know how to Indian industry.This was institutionalised with the CII through a Centre of Excellence in Manufacturing, sponsored by Godrej & Boyce and located in Vikhroli, Mumbai. He projected this as an Indo-British Partnership Initiative. 

In CII, he found a partner desperate to give priority to