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Articles in January, 2007 issue of Business Today

• Business News
  by Amit Mukherjee; Anand Adhikari; Anusha subramanian; Arnab Mitra; Balaji Chandramouli; Pallavi Srivastava; Shalini S. Dagar; Aman Malik
• Beckoning Careers, Slicing The IT Pie, Help, Tarun!
  by Rahul Sachitanand; Tarun Sheth; BT-TeamLease Employment Outlook Survey
• The 2006 Policy Manual Here are eight of the year's most far-reaching reforms on the policy front, in chronological order.
  by Anand Adhikari
• Life In The Other India No doubt, reforms have benefited millions of educated Indians. But equally surely, they've left a vast majority untouched. Education, healthcare and water remain just a dream for them.
  by T.V. Mahalingam additional reporting by Kapil Bajaj
• Manufacturing's Surprise Comeback When services took off in the late 90s, no one gave manufacturing a second chance. It turns out they were dead wrong.
  by Shalini S. Dagar additional reporting by Shaleen Agrawal
• Printed Circuit, Treadmill, Steps to stay healthy during winner
  by Manu Kaushik; Muscles Mani; Kushan Mitra
• Current News
  by Anusha Subramanian; Deepti Khanna Bose; E. Kumar Sharma; Mahesh Nayak; Pallavi Srivastava; T.V. Mahalingam; Venkatesha Babu; Krishna Gopalan
• Going, Going... Gone Global In the next 15 years, India Inc. will be a name to reckon with all over the world-and many more foreign transnational giants would have bought their way into a still piping-hot domestic market.
  by Shivani Lath; Anand Adhikari
• Will It Trickle Down? Even as middle class India is thriving, burgeoning and obsessively consuming in copious quantities, roughly 35 per cent of the population gets by with under Rs 45 a day, and another 45 per cent lives on Rs 45-90.
  by Anusha Subramanian; Brian Carvalho
• The Big Variable It's time Indian agriculture got its second Green Revolution. A higher growth rate won't just benefit millions of farmers, but turbo charge the economy.
  by Balaji Chandramouli
• Is He Cashing Out?
  by Aman Malik; Archna Shukla; Balaji Chandramouli; Pallavi Srivastava; Venkatesha Babu
• The Builder Who Made It Big
  by Amit Mukherjee
• A Vision for India in 2020: Freer, Better, Bigger
  by Adil Zainulbhai
• The Road Long Travelled, And The Journey Ahead
  by Abhijit Sen
• The Leader And The Damned BT's Ritwik Mukherjee spent a day tracking Mamata Banerjee's fast. Here's a first person account of what he saw.
  by Ritwik Mukherjee
• Look, It's Moving! From airports to mega power projects to road and ports things finally seem to be moving in the infrastructure sector.
  by E. Kumar Sharma; Shalini S. Dagar; Balaji Chandramouli
• Words Of Wisdom They all had something to say...global CEOs flying in, their Indian counterparts going overseas (and a few went overboard as well)
• The Market Makers How India's middle class of 300 million became not just one of the largest markets, but a global phenomenon.
  by Archna Shukla additional reporting by Aman Malik
• The Sector That Turned India Around How and why services became India's growth engine.
  by Shivani Lath; Venkatesha Babu
• Running Out Of Cash No, India's PSU banks aren't about to go broke, but some of them are fast running out of money to lend. Given that they account for two- thirds of all banking in the country, any resultant credit squeeze could hurt the economy.
  by Anand Adhikari
• The Liberalised Generation: A Different Consumer
  by Arvind Singhal
• Reforms Have Energised The Indian Entrepreneur
  by Sunil Bharti Mittal
• The Telecom Lesson
• Nitish Kumar's Mission Impossible Think Bihar and the image that comes to mind is one of crime, lawlessness and desolation. But the new Chief Minister is working hard to reverse the tide. And going by ground realities, the situation is actually getting be
  by Amit Mukherjee
• How To Make Democracy Deliver In India
  by N.R. Narayana Murthy
• The Social Sector Scam: Schooling For Failure
  by Abhijit Banerjee
• What A Long Strange Trip It's Been The stock market's benchmark has gained seven times since 1991 and annual inflows from FIIs are up 10-fold since they first began investing in Indian equity in 1993. But guess what? Stocks are actually cheaper today than
  by Mahesh Nayak
• Massages For All Occasions There are hundreds of forms of massage. Here, our intrepid correspondents review four of the most popular ones and bring you the verdict.
  by Jamal Shaikh; Shivangi Misra
• Look, It's Moving? From airports to mega power projects to roads and ports, things finally seem to be moving in the infrstructure sector.
  by Aman Malik; Shalini S. Dagar
• We Don't Need No Status Quo In Education
  by Azim H. Premji
• Year Of The (BIG) Deal India Inc.'s rising confidence level was evident from the sizes of its M&A deals; and 2006 may have just been the inflexion point between adolescence and adulthood.
  by Krishna Gopalan
• Globalisation's Unlikely Gainer Once an underdog in global trade talks, India-like a few other developing countries-has learnt to speak up and demand its pound of flesh.
  by Balaji Chandramouli
• Snapping At Hero's Heels Bajaj Auto is going full throttle after market leader Hero Honda, but can it become Numero Uno? Not if Honda has its way.
  by Kushan Mitra
• Modern-day Messiah A billionaire speculator-cum-philanthropist's retake on what ails the world today and how to fix it.
  by Balaji Chandramouli; R. Sridharan
• Corporate Combat The year gone by had its share of brawls in the boardroom, and some of them out of it.
  by Krishna Gopalan
• The Rise Of Indian Entrepreneurs Economic reforms allowed a thousand entrepreneurs to bloom. It is they who rewrote the India story.
  by Anand Adhikari; Shalini S. Dagar
• Who'll Win Hutch? Its large India footprint, the lack of acquisition targets in the world's fastest growing telecom market, and the rosy prospect of grabbing majority control in India's fourth-largest cellular operator make Hutchison Essar a red-hot play.
  by Krishna Gopalan
• Money News
  by Krishna Gopalan; Mahesh Nayak; Nitya Varadarajan; Shalini S. Dagar; Clifford Alvares
• Are Indians Really Empowered? India is a democracy by the people, for the people and of the people only in name. A fragmented polity and a sclerotic political class mean that real governance doesn't exist for Indians. But there's cause for optimism.
  by E. Kumar Sharma; Kapil Bajaj; Shaleen Agrawal; Arnab Mitra additional reporting by Ritwik Mukherjee
• The Incredible Years In less than 15 years, India has transformed itself from a near basket case to the hottest emerging market story. Blame it on luck or savvy policies, India now seems destined for economic greatness.
  by Balaji Chandramouli additional reporting by Rahul Sachitanand
• At Home In The Global Village Companies of all hues are liberally loosening the purse-strings as they venture on an asset-shopping spree overseas.
  by Krishna Gopalan
• The All New FMCG Juniors They are acquiring manufacturing facilities abroad, cracking open consumer markets outside India, and mulling more launches at their unbeatable price points. FMCG's HLL wannabes have caught their second wind.
  by Archna Shukla additional reporting Ritwik Mukherjee
• Newsmakers Those who hit the headlines in 2006 (most of them for the right reasons).
  by Krishna Gopalan; Deepti Khanna Bose
• Hunting For Mushrooms In India How sustainable is India's growth, how different will the economy look by 2020, and what will be the new drivers of its growth? Nathan Associates, a US-based economic consulting firm, crystal-gazes exclusively for BT.
  by Exclusively for BT
• Dare To Dream Big And Do It; The World Is Yours
  by Kumar Mangalam Birla