Retail rush ; Micky Jagtiani wants to become a global player.

The Oasis Centre is a new 200,000-sq. ft retail centre on Bangalore's Intermediate Ring Road and was opened in late January by the $2-billion Landmark Group, based in Dubai. Backed by booming music, balloons and confetti, the place was thrown open to business as an odd selection of hangers-on, store staff and visiting journalists looked on.

The centre of attention was a short, stout man in a dark blazer and khakis, who seemed embarrassed by the attention. This reticent man is Mukesh 'Micky Jagtiani, a one-time cabbie-turnedretail mogul who was visiting India's IT Capital to inaugurate his ...

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