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  Steering past China
Toyota set up a plant near Bangalore to manufacture 160,000 gearboxes after various countries like India, China and Thailand ‘bid’ for it.
   
Earlier Columns
 

The coming drought , April 27, 2002
The ugly American , April 20, 2002
Sinha versus Modi, April 13, 2002
Congratulations, Mr Ram Naik, April 6, 2002
The day the computers died, March 30, 2002
The ABC of selling off Maruti , March 16, 2002
The Enron saga gets worse , March 9, 2002
The action-not-taken report , March 2, 2002
You can safely skip the budget , February 23, 2002
You do the math, February 16, 2002
Let a thousand Enrons bloom, February 9, 2002
Psst... wanna buy the Taj?, February 2, 2002
Not all IT’s cracked up to be, January 26, 2002
The Unaccountables, January 19, 2002
The rape game begins again, January 12, 2002
The power to change reality, January 5, 2002
Harshad, Ketan, Harshad ..., January 1, 2002
The power of churning, December 29, 2001
Using TNT to blast T&D, December 22, 2001
On second thoughts..., December 15, 2001
Corporate Crusaders Inc, December 8, 2001
Prawns and other similarities, December 3, 2001
Walk the talk, Mr Naik, November 24, 2001
Suzuki and the WTO, November 17, 2001
Think fast — and on your feet, November 10, 2001
We'll lose, but will die trying, October 27, 2001
Survival lessons for Mr Sinha, October 20, 2001
Backwards into the future, October 13, 2001
After the word, what?, October 6, 2001
The rank and the file, September 29, 2001
And now, rhetoric unlimited, September 22, 2001
Brothers against Islamic terror?, September 15, 2001
The golden cage syndrome, September 8, 2001
The age of indifference, September 1, 2001
The real tehelka is yet to come, August 25, 2001
And now, the fake bill ripoff, August 18, 2001
The great Bhure Lal hijack, August 11, 2001
The cheerleader brigade, August 4, 2001
The day UTI went to sleep, July 28, 2001
Biz beyond the line of control, July 21, 2001
Anyone remember Vardarajalu?, July 14, 2001
Setting up a fall guy, July 07, 2001
Chronicle of a scandal foretold, June 30, 2001
Dolphins die, sharks survive, June 23, 2001
Tough solutions at Microsoft, June 16, 2001
Dogfight over privatisation, May 25, 2001
The wholly owned subsidiary, May 19, 2001
Telecom scams, the ongoing saga, May 12, 2001
Go for it, Mr Goenka, May 05, 2001
Government in default mode, April 28, 2001
When watchdogs don’t watch, April 21, 2001
Wanted: fast track courts , April 07, 2001