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Articles in January, 2006 issue of Business Today

• So Far, Still Good It's been a great year for the advertising...oops the marketing and communications industry, but will the inevitable transformation pan out?
  by Krishna Gopalan and Archna Shukla
• Brits in BPO Jobs, Help, Tarun!, First Among Equals, Corner Room As stepping Stone
  by Ahona Ghosh, Tarun Sheth, Ritwik Mukherjee, Amanpreet Singh
• What Will It Take For The Indian Capital Market To Lead The Country's Growth?
  by Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
• What Will It Take To Eradicate Poverty?
  by Lord Meghnad Desai
• What Will It Take To Provide Brick And Mortar Housing To Every Indian?
  by Deepak Parekh
• Terror Struck A terror attack on scientists attending a conference at Bangalore's Indian Institute of Science exposes India's soft underbelly once again. Rahul Sachitanand and E. Kumar Sharma report on its fallout from Bangalore and Hyderabad, respectivel
  by Rahul Sachitanand and E. Kumar Sharma
• A Car For Every Indian? Perhaps not in another 50, or even 100, years, but there's little doubt that India is among the last virgin car markets.
  by Kushan Mitra additional reporting by Kumarkaushalam, Rahul Sachitanand and Nitya Varadarajan
• Treadmill, Faqs About Jet Lag, Printed Circuit
  by Muscles Mani, Manu Kaushik, Kushan Mitra
• Sensex 2006: Target 12,000? Another year of spectacular foreign inflows, or is the best over, or is there a sharp correction on the cards-what lies in store for the Indian stock markets in the new year?
  by Mahesh Nayak
• What Will It Take To Make Made In India A Preferred Tag?
  by Xerxes Desai
• What Will It Take To Become A Nation Of Innovators?
  by Vijay Govindarajan
• What Will It Take To Achieve Universal Quality Education?
  by Azim Premji
• Flotsam, Treadmill, Printed Circuit
  by Amanpreet Singh, Muscles Mani, Manu Kaushik, Kushan Mitra
• Motorcycle Mania Cars are aspirational, but two-wheelers are what the nation rides on. And that's unlikely to change for decades to come.
  by Kushan Mitra with additioanl reporting by Kumarkaushalam, Rahul Sachitanand and Nitya Varadarajan
• Change Of Umpire
  by Archna Shukla, Ashish Gupta, R. Sridharan, Sahad P.V. and Rahul Sachitanand
• "The Next 10 Years Will Be The Most Exciting Period Ever"
  by Venkatesha Babu
• What Will It Take To Ensure Healthcare For All?
  by Kiran Mazumdar Shaw
• What Will It Take To Secure Our Energy Future?
  by Subir Raha
• What Will It Take For At Least One In Four Indians To Own a car?
  by Jagdish Khattar
• The Battle's Over, But The War Isn't They may have reached a settlement in 2005, but as the Ambani brothers chart out their respective growth mega-plans, you can expect much more sparring in the shadows.
  by Krishna Gopalan
• The India Engineering Story Long considered a job shop, India is turning out to be an engineering centre as well. But there's a long way to go.
  by Kushan Mitra with additional reporting by Kumarkaushalam, Rahul Sachitanand and Nitya Varadarajan
• Testing The Waters The Reserve Bank of India is making it easier for resident Indians to access foreign exchange. Is this the first step towards full convertibility?
  by Anand Adhikari, Kumarkaushalam, Arnab Mitra
• Tween Power The brand-aware child is the father of the brand-conscious man. Not surprisingly then, everyone wants a piece of the Rs 20,000-crore tween (children aged between eight and 12) market.
  by Priya Srinivasan with E. Kumar Sharma and Archna Shukla
• Business News
• What Will It Take To Raise India's Per Capita Income To $250 a month?
  by K.V. Kamath
• What Will It Take To Beat The AIDS Epidemic? A Business Perspective
  by Ashok Alexander
• Business News
• The Atyp-ical Indian Tween
  by A BT-Synovate Study
• A Low Profile Achiever
  by Krishna Gopalan
• What Will It Take To Make India One Of The World's Top 5 Tourist Destinations?
  by Giovanni Bisignani
• What Will It Take To Create A Market Out Of India's Poor?
  by Arun Maira
• Missing The Fizz The inside story on how Coca-Cola and Pepsi got it wrong in the Indian market, and what they're doing to set things right.
  by Archna Shukla
• Making Sense Of Google A book that finally explains why a "free" search engine is the Net's biggest money-spinne
  by R. Sridharan
• Not Just Another IT Company Having survived the telecom bust, Sasken is betting that its unique product-cum-services play will help position it as a major vendor for phone companies. Will it?
  by Venkatesha Babu
• Business News
  by Ashish Gupta, Mahesh Nayak, Ahona Ghosh, Kumarkaushalam, R. Sridharan, Anand Adhikari, Amanpreet Singh, E. Kumar Sharma, Sahad P.V., Kushan Mitra, Krishna Gopalan, Archna Shukla
• What Will It Take For An Indian Company To Be Among The World's 10 Largest?
  by Sunil Bharti Mittal
• Inflection Point
• What Will It Take To Electrify All Our Villages?
  by F.A. Vandrevala
• "Sandalwood" On A Song Long in the doldrums, the Kannada film industry, or Sandalwood, has made a surprising comeback. You would have never guessed what helped.
  by Venkatesha Babu
• Beckoning Careers, Help, Tarun!
  by Amanpreet Singh, Tarun Sheth
• The Death Of A Mining Town The Supreme Court orders Kudremukh Iron Ore to shutter operations by the end of this month. The profitable PSU, and the 10,000 people dependent on it, must figure out how to make a living tomorrow.
  by Venkatesha Babu
• The Tween Economy There are things that tweens buy. Then, there are things their parents do, where they influence the decision. That could explain why everyone from paint companies to car makers is targeting them.
  by Priya Srinivasan with Rahul Sachitanand and Archna Shukla additional reporting by Ritwik Mukherjee and Nitya Varadarajan
• What Will It Take For India To Win An Olympic Gold?
  by Col. Rajyavardhan 'Chilly' Rathore
• What Will It Take For India To Become The #1 FDI Destination In The World?
  by Anand Mahindra
• What Will It Take To Make India An Economic Superpower?
  by Kumar Mangalam Birla
• Inside Google India How the internet's biggest phenomenon is getting its act together to dominate India's online market and leverage local tech talent to stay on the bleeding edge of innovation.
  by Sahad P.V.
• Where To Invest In 2006 Today's kaleidoscopic financial landscape could leave most investors dazed and confused. Still, while there are no pret-a-porter solutions, a little common sense and a dash of caution should help your money grow.
  by Vaishna Roy additional reporting by Anand Adhikari and Rahul Sachitanand, Kumarkaushalam, E. Kumar Sharma, Amanpreet Singh, Mahesh Nayak
• No Kidding!
• Tween-Day A Day in the Life of an Indian Tween in the Metros
• What Will It Take To Ensure Clean Water For All?
  by R.K. Pachauri
• What Will It Take To Make Our Cities Truly World Class?
  by Nandan M. Nilekani
• What Will It Take To Empower Poor Farmers?
  by Y.C. Deveshwar
• Spell Bubble With A G?
• Trucking On With the economy booming, commercial vehicle sales are clipping. But unfortunately for giants Tata Motors and Ashok Leyland, there's global competition on their heels.
  by Kushan Mitra with additional reporting by Kumarkaushalam, Rahul Sachitanand and Nitya Varadarajan
• Problem Of Plenty Too much water could never have been Chennai's problem. But torrential rains, made worse by the city's choked drains and canals, had its people wishing for a dry piece of land, if not better infrastructure, says Vaishna Roy.
  by Vaishna Roy
• Spoilt For Choice With as many as seven airlines operating on some sectors, there are terrific airline deals out there. But how do you get the best?
  by Kushan Mitra, Mahesh Nayak, Vaishna Roy, Nitya Varadarajan, Kumarkaushalam, Anand Adhikari, Krishna Gopalan
• What Will It Take To Rid India Of Corruption?
  by N.R. Narayana Murthy
• What Will It Take For A Resident Indian To Win A Nobel Prize?
  by R.A. Mashelkar
• A Small Step Forward The WTO Ministerial Round in Hong Kong has resulted in a status quo on services and non-agricultural market access. But at least the deadlock of the earlier rounds has been broken and the spirit of multilateralism has lived to fight a
  by Malini Bhupta
• Looking Ahead The economy has begun the year on a strong note and is likely to maintain its growth momentum.
  by Ashish Gupta
• Tugga War The autobiography of the man who changed the way Test cricket is played, Steve Waugh.
  by R. Sukumar
• Who Is P. K. Ruia? The man shot into prominence when he won the privatisation bid for Jessop and turned it around. He's again in the news following his buyout of Dunlop. Here's a 360 degree look at the man.
  by Ritwik Mukherjee
• What Will It Take To Increase The Number Of Women In Our Workforce?
  by Anu Aga
• What Will It Take To Bridge The Digital Divide?
  by Shiv Nadar
• The Street Calls
  by Krishna Gopalan, Rahul Sachitanand, Ashish Gupta, Venkatesha Babu and Amanpreet Singh
• A Doctor With A Dream
  by Nitya Varadarajan