Tiger, tiger, burning bright …

Written by V V Ranganathan, January 7th, 2010

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Exactly an year ago, one of India’s then celebrated entrepreneurs, made a confession that his entrepreneurial journey was indeed “… like riding a tiger, not knowing how to get off without being eaten”.  His admission on 7th January 2009 that he committed a series of gigantic frauds (more than a billion dollar) shook India and […]

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Is the Price of Gold right? Or is the Oil price wrong?

Written by V V Ranganathan, December 2nd, 2009

Posted under: Musings

Can Gold prices reach $ 1200 per ounce? Will Oil touch $200 a barrel? These were questions I had put forward in an article “Oh! My God “published on 22 August 2008.   The GOD I refer to is Gold, Oil and Dollar. The less we speak about the last one, the better.
Gold was then at […]

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Airline Pilots Glorified drivers?

Written by V V Ranganathan, September 11th, 2009

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It is a bit poignant that I have to write about airlines on 9/11 when ground zero is in mourning. Barely some five months ago,  Rajya Sabha MP P V Abdul Wahab from Kerala was accused of calling the pilot of an Air India aircraft a ‘glorified driver’. What followed was such a hue and […]

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