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Subroto Bagchi has been watching leaders bloom at MindTree. Actually, he is not merely watching.

Subroto Bagchi: The constant Gardener

WHILE MY BUSINESS SCHOOL experience was certainly one of the most enriching, I have realised over time that life is a bigger teacher.

Begin with the end

The fascinating story of the beginning of motoring in the country.

The first wheels roll into India

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    Mark Twain was practically bankrupt in 1894 due to a failed investment into a &ldquo;revolutionary&rdquo; typesetting machine. In an attempt to extricate himself from debt of $100,000, he undertook a tour of the British Empire and wrote a book called Following the Equator, an account of that travel.

The Strategist Quiz (#078)

    Link the penning of the American national anthem and the signing of the Treaty of Nanking in 1842 which marked the end of the Opium War and ceded Hong Kong to England.

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Self-drive holidays are slowly finding a place in the vacation plans of Indian travellers.

Country roads...

THE big ticket event of the year was the world title match where Viswanathan Anand defended comfortably against Vladimir Kramnik.

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Cars on Indian roads are getting jazzier by the day.

In-car entertainment

Most people I talk to seem to agree that 2008 has been a ratty, perfidious, thoroughly avoidable year, and many of them have sworn never to repeat it.

Good riddance, 2008

Neha Bhatt catches Volvo's Paul de Voijs getting emotional about his first photo with a dinky in the crib, his kids' birth and the first time they said &quot;Volvo&quot;...

Men, machines and love

I love pop surveys &mdash; particularly when the findings are obviously suspect.

Cars, colours, theories...

At 29, Ashish Chordia loves luxury and the big life. Priyanka Joshi finds out more about his fascination with Porsches and Ducatis.

He&#39;s got a fast car

Children's authors, unlike writers of grown-up books, can work magic with automobiles, Rrishi Raote argues.

Car-acter act

The average daily car-borne commute to and from work, in most parts of the world, takes about 1.1 hours.

Books on wheels

From Victorian carriages to vintage cars, and rail coaches, Anoothi Vishal finds out what will be on show at a proposed museum of transport in India.

Vintage point

What made 48&deg;C, an ambitious public art showing in New Delhi, a success was not the sum of its cutting-edge works but a sum of the journeys that it unleashed, reflects Bharati Chaturvedi
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On the Metro, sans cars, a long journey

Embarking on someone else&rsquo;s story is usually less fearful than embarking on one&rsquo;s own. Otherness makes for a good buffer, but there are exceptions.

Into the heart of darkness

Who has won, or is tipped to win, in Europe, Japan and North America?
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The Business Standard Motoring Bike Of The Year 2009 - Yamaha FZ16.
It&rsquo;s that time of the year again, when we pit all of the latest entrants on the Indian motorcycling scene against each other,

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