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Articles in September, 2006 issue of Business Today

• "User-Generated Communities Are The Next Big Thing"
  by Venkatesha Babu
• The Microfinance Muddle Five months after a collector in Andhra's Krishna district cracked the whip on microfinance institutions, the small lending industry is still in a tizzy.
  by E. Kumar Sharma
• Beckoning Careers, Jumping Jobless, Help, Tarun!
  by Tarun Sheth; Rahul Sachitanand
• Is India Inc. Safe? Low promoter holdings coupled with limitless opportunities and potential make Indian companies ripe targets for global predators on the prowl.
  by Mahesh Nayak
• 300 Per Cent Inflation
• India, Warts and All If India continues to fascinate and confound its observers, it is because the country is a world in itself.
  by Sanjoy Narayan
• Kolkata's Venetian Dreams In which Ritwik Mukherjee participates in an effort by the West Bengal government to restore a 186-year-old canal for commercial purposes.
  by Ritwik Mukherjee
• Money News
  by Ahona Ghosh; Anand Adhikari; Krishna Gopalan; Kushan Mitra; Mahesh Nayak; Nitya Varadarajan; Shaleen Agrawal; Shivani Lath; Amit Mukherjee
• Joint Favourites
  by Anand Adhikari
• An Eye On The American Pie A clutch of Indian companies is attempting to carve out a presence in the US by taking its brands there or, even better, by acquiring businesses in the US of A.
  by Shivani Lath
• Question of Leadership
• Current News
  by Ahona Ghosh; Amit Mukherjee; Anil Padmanabhan; Balaji Chandramouli; E. Kumar Sharma; Krishna Gopalan; Mahesh Nayak; Nitya Varadarajan; Pallavi Srivastava; Ritwik Mukherjee; Shalini S. Dagar; Venkatesha Babu; Venkatesha Babu; Anand Adhikari
• Soaring Salaries... ...Vanishing Workers As the economy surges, sectors ranging from IT to retail to manufacturing to services are scrambling to find workers. Result: Salaries have hit new highs.
  by Archna Shukla; Shalini S. Dagar
• Current News
  by ; Anand Adhikari; Balaji Chandramouli; Krishna Gopalan; Venkatesha Babu
• Ranbaxy Revs Up In the eight months he's been in the corner room, Ranbaxy's Malvinder Singh has snapped up five businesses abroad. But that's just one part of the drugs giant the 33-year-old wants to build.
  by Archna Shukla
• The RI(gh)T Connection R is for retail, I for insurance and T for telecom, and India's biggest conglomerates want a fat slice of these sunrise businesses- and an even fatter slice of consumers' wallets.
  by Krishna Gopalan additional reporting by Amit Mukherjee
• Inflation Ahead? Signs of inflation are all around, but how well the government and the RBI manage interest rates will determine whether it stays under control or spirals out.
  by Balaji Chandramouli
• Coffee, Tea And Audacity Since acquiring Tetley six years ago Tata Tea, along with its coffee subsidiary, has spent at least $1.4 billion on a string of international acquisitions. The vision? To carve out a meaningful slice of the global beverages pie, w
  by Shivani Lath
• "Orderly Disorder" A fresh attempt to provide a framework for managing in a complex, inter-connected world.
  by R. Sridharan
• A Growing Pile
  by Archna Shukla; Balaji Chandramouli; Krishna Gopalan; Riwik Mukherjee; Venkatesha Babu
• False Dawn On Dalal Street The markets have gained over 30 per cent since the crash of June, but there's plenty to suggest this rally isn't for real.
  by Mahesh Nayak
• Batting For Jet
  by Amit Mukherjee; Anand Adhikari; Krishna Gopalan; Ritwik Mukherjee; Kushan Mitra
• Beckoning Careers, Mistress Of Spices, Help, Tarun!
  by Rahul Sachitanand; Tarun Sheth; Amit Mukherjee
• Business News
  by Ahona Ghosh; Aman Malik; Krishna; Shivani Lath; Rahul Sachitanand
• India's Best Marketers
  by Archna; Krishna Gopalan; Kushan Mitra; Shivani Lath; Ritwik Mukherjee
• The Financial Engineer
  by Shalini S. Dagar
• TREADMILL, COPING WITH HEADACHES, PRINTED CIRCUIT
  by Kushan Mitra; Mani Kaushik; Saptarshi Biswas; Vivan Mehra; Muscles Mani
• Hard Knock To The Rock Flooded with problems : It will be several months before Surat gets its sparkle back Surat's recent flash floods didn't just ravage the city, but also its booming diamond industry, which churns out Rs 45,000-crore of precious rocks
  by Krishna Gopalan
• Homes Can Be Smart, Too Technology now allows you to set the ambience of your house according to your moods. You can switch on the AC from your office, open doors for your guest from the road and draw the curtains from your car. But, mind you, these will
  by Shivani Lath
• The Cash Crunch Access to timely and cheap finance is possibly the biggest problem for most small enterprises, but that situation will only change when they clean up their act.
  by Shalini S. Dagar
• Treadmill, Six Steps To Staying Young, Printed Circuit
  by Kushan Mitra; Manu Kaushik; Muscles Mani
• Money News
  by Ahona Ghosh; Amit Mukherjee; Mahesh Nayak; Shivani; Krishna Gopalan
• Business News
  by Ahona Ghosh; Aman Malik; Anand Adhikari; Kapil Bajaj; Kapil Bajaj; Kushan Mitra; Pallavi Srivastava; Rahul Sachitanand; Ritwik Mukherjee; Shaleen Agrawal; Shivani Lath; Amit Mukherjee
• The Big Invisible Fifteen years after the economy was opened up to global competition, India's small scale industry is still struggling to find its feet. Ironically, it is a policy meant to protect them (read: reservation of products) that has come back t
  by E. Kumar Sharma; Nitya Varadarajan; Rahul Sachitanand; Ritwik Mukherjee; R. Sridharan additional reporting by Shaleen Agrawal
• The Running Trip A senior executive who has run in more than 100 locations across 20 countries over the past 16 years recounts his obsession.
  by Anurag Behar