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Happy or rather Hoopy New Year to everyone!
Sharing my daughter @EshnaKutty 's latest music/dance/ hula hopping video - an ambitious production shot over four cities! Hope you love it as much as genda phool!
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India’s start-up ecosystem enters a new phase. Its not about how many start-ups we create, or capital raised, or how quickly they become unicorns. It’s about building enduring, innovative businesses that compete with the best in the world. My review of Lift-Off Nation in the HBL.
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How is Rudra Chatterjee taking heritage businesses into new markets, from luxury carpets to some of the world’s costliest teas?
Read how design, craftsmanship and new ventures are shaping his approach.
@ndcnn
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My column in @businessline today: Are we overdoing the festivities at work? Are these Frequent events driven by FOMO eventually creating fatigue?
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From a Gujarati snack shop to a ₹180-crore growth ambition!
Founded in Vadodara in 1938, Jagdish Farshan is blending regional flavours with modern innovation. With nearly 500 products, a Series A investment and plans for a new manufacturing hub to triple output, the legacy snack brand is setting its sights on national and global markets.
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Read more: mrf.lu/2bQRf
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"Replacing H-1B workers with US-based talent could raise hiring costs by 20–100 per cent, depending on the skill-set and experience level," said our co-founder @Kamalkaranth.
@businessline @that_sanjana @Rohangdas
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#tech #visa #h1b #IT
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When the book announcement about ‘Adam and Eve’ to be published on October 6 came from Harper Collins, it came with the line that it would be Jeffrey Archer’s final novel. For those of us praying that the prolific writer who whipped out so many unputdownable stories would change his mind, the hope died on October 5, when he breathed his last. He was 86.
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Incredible India!
So @MunCorpGurugram puts up multiple sign boards telling us where SHALU VERMA lives. Also informs us that she is an “eminent person” and is district co-ordinator for Modi ji’s Mann ki baat.🙄 Thank you @NayabSainiBJP MCG & Haryana Sarkar.🙏 Now can you please fix Gurgaon’s roads?
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My latest piece in my series of 'stories from the workplace' in The Hindu Business Line. This one is about building Learning Organizations, but as usual I give more space to just telling stories : thehindubusinessline.com/spe…
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Two friends from Vypeen, Kochi - Noel and Prince - are killing it at the Asian games.
With their stellar performances, they have put India at the top spot in the Men's Skiff event.
(Note: In sailing, team with lowest points* wins)
@pendown @rajeshravi71 @appooz @limirose @jillsdaniel @rmenn @badjourno @Pro_Bharati @Cmde_GPrakash @abhilashtomy @AGStd @ajithgeorge100 @IndianExpress @nkoshie @BlabbingFingers @Krish_TNIE @krishna_suma_ @VigneshMadhu94 @nellayappan @DPrasanthNair @PrasantCMenon @4eo @AntoJoseph @georgysthomas @umavishnu @preethisadasiv
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And, to start the week my review of The Prime Minister’s Table by Purabi Shridhar and Sanghita Singh. Had it been published a few weeks ago we’d have a had an informed debate around the BRICS banquet menu. @AmaryllisManjul @businessline @ndcnn #BookRecommendations #books
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Synthite Industries — founded by executive chairman and managing director Viju Jacob's father, CV Jacob, in 1970 — is the world’s largest producer and exporter of spice extracts, oleoresins, and essential oils, supplying flavour components to the likes of Nestle, Unilever and Pepsico, and has a commanding 35 per cent global market share. In four key crops — paprika, turmeric, pepper and capsicum — it has near 20 per cent market share.
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Sad news!
He was a great raconteur! Lots of stories from the shipping beat. May his soul rest in peace.
RIP Kurup sir
NK Kurup, veteran journalist and my fmr boss at The Hindu BusinessLine (@businessline) in Mumbai passed away today (Sept 26) at 72.
Born in Pandalam, Kerala, he had a distinguished career in biz journalism. Before joining TH, he worked with ET & FE, Mumbai
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A dream project for Keralam is to integrate all its ports and make it a major component of tourism, declared Chief Minister V D Satheesan, inaugurating the 13th edition of the Kerala Travel Mart in Kochi on Thursday evening, reports Chitra Narayanan ( @ndcnn) thehindubusinessline.com/new…
Purnima Devi is simply incredible . And what a feisty bunch of ladies she has mobilised in her Hargila army! There was no question in the jury's mind that she was @businessline changemaker of 2026!
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“When women rise, magic happens, and the Hargila takes flight,” said Purnima Devi Barman, the businessline Changemaker of 2026 as she accepted the award to thunderous applause. In a heartwarming moment, the conservationist from Assam who has saved the endangered greater adjutant stork (Hargila), asked the audience to move their hands in an action reminiscent of a bird flapping its wings — a spontaneous call that touched and stirred the audience.
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As the States aggressively compete to attract the next wave of global capability centres (GCCs), Keralam is laying out the red carpet in an unusual way to get these high value hubs to its soil.
✍️ @ndcnn thehindubusinessline.com/new…
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49 Indian cities have over a million population.
Can we focus on building out these cities through positive stories by developing their physical, social, and talent infrastructure? My column in today's @businessline
