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N.R. Narayana Murthy, H.V. Gowthama, Shukla W hen I switched from the corporate sector to business jour-
Bose, Dr. Glenn Christo, Dr. R. Natarajan nalism over four decades ago, journalism was a glamour
(Bangalore); Adi Godrej, Dr. Augustine Pinto, vocation. Industry leaders and businessmen, long pilloried
Guilherme Vaz, Ketan Gala, Kirit Mehta, Balkishan
Sharma (Mumbai); Dr. Ramdas Pai (Manipal); and abused in the heyday of socialism, were anxious to tell
Prof. Geeta Kingdon (Lucknow); Rajiv Desai, Dr. their stories to Business India of which I was a category-
Parth Shah, Jeroninio Almeida (Delhi); Dr. Kannan
Gireesh (Chennai); Robindra Subba (Kurseong); creator and first editor. After their stories were told and chronicled, it turned
Sanjeev Bolia (Kolkata); Dr. Achyuta Samanta out that far from being the villains of post-independence India, they were in
(Bhubaneswar); Yogi Kochhar (Dharamshala); fact, heroes. At that time, apart from businessmen eager to tell their stories of
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success despite the hundreds of hurdles thrown in their path, politicians were
EDITOR not afraid to explain and justify their policies and initiatives.
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The launch of Business India and BusinessWorld a few years later had a
MANAGING EDITOR happy ending. Suddenly the country came to its senses. Dr. Manmohan Singh,
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for several decades an architect of crushing licence-permit-quota raj, hopped
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Sundar Anand the historic industry liberalisation and deregulation reforms of 1991. Immedi-
Paromita Sengupta, Reshma Ravishanker, Gopi ately, India’s annual GDP growth rate doubled and has averaged 7 percent per
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9868256512, Baishali Mukherjee (Kolkata) year since. As a result, an estimated 400 million citizens have been lifted out of
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