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THE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT MAGAZINE

Volume X XII No.10

BOARD OF ADVISORS
N.R. Narayana Murthy, H.V. Gowthama, Shukla
Bose, Dr. Glenn Christo, Dr. R. Natarajan “
(Bangalore); Adi Godrej, Dr. Augustine Pinto, There is properly no history, only biography,” wrote Ralph
Krishan Khanna, Guilherme Vaz, Ketan Gala, Waldo Emerson (1803-82), the great American essayist, lec-
Kirit Mehta, Balkishan Sharma (Mumbai); Dr.
Ramdas Pai (Manipal); Dr. Geeta Kingdon turer, philosopher and abolitionist. Yet in post-independence
(Lucknow); Rajiv Desai, Dr. Parth Shah, Jeroninio India, there is a curious reluctance within society — and the
Almeida, Premchand Palety (Delhi); Dr. Kannan
Gireesh (Chennai); Robindra Subba (Kurseong); media — to give credit to great leaders in vocations other
Sanjeev Bolia (Kolkata); Dr. Achyuta Samanta than politics and the film industry. This despite the reality that in business,
(Bhubaneswar); Shyama Thakore (London)
social sector and the academy, outstanding leaders have built strong institu-
EDITOR tions that are making valuable contribution to the country’s economy and the
Dilip Thakore national development effort.
MANAGING EDITOR Fortunately in my long career in journalism, I haven’t experienced this
Summiya Yasmeen national inhibition. Way back in 1978 when I was appointed editor of Business
CHIEF SUB-EDITOR India and three years later of Businessworld — India’s first business news
Sundar Anand magazines — at a time when private sector industry leaders and businessmen
Paromita Sengupta, Reshma Ravishanker, Gopi were routinely pilloried and rubbished, I made it a practice to lift the corporate
Chand N, (Bangalore), Autar Nehru (Delhi) veil and identify and eulogise leaders who kept wheels of the economy turning
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