Sustainability new buzzword in business
The business of business seems to be undergoing a paradigm shift in definition. While the end of business remains non-negotiably creation of wealth, environmentally sustainability seems to be getting in-built gradually in the means.

South Asian women live a second-class life
This is a promise he would have loved to break. In 1998, when Mahbub ul Haq decided to have The Gender Question as the theme for the Human Development in South Asia 2000 report.

`I'd feel revulsion at ostentatious displays'
Money is the means to an end. How can money be an end in itself? it's a vehicle. Just as language conveys thought, money is used to achieve something. Sitting in the bank or sitting in your house, there's nothing you can do with it. It's a wonderful thing to have money.

When you don't get your money on maturity
Are you are one of those who has been denied refund of your deposit money and interest on maturity by the company with which you made a deposit? Have you been told that the fixed deposit must necessarily be renewed? Have post-dated cheques bounced when you tried to encash them?

A Ganesha in silver
Ganesha is the most widely used motif in the Frazer and Haws Diwali collection this year. The little elephant-headed god dances atop a set of diya made of silver and polished teak. His profile adorns a sleek silver Gajapati thali. And you can find his image on silver key chains and paper clips too.

Playthings from around the globe, no kidding
Playthings will no longer be what they used to be. Not for the children of Delhi at least, who can now pick up the most heavy duty stuff available anywhere in the country right here.

The best only for his country
He runs businesses in five countries, but has made the UK his home. Despite that, he is passionate about his business in India, especially retailing. Little wonder then that Harpinder Singh Narula's dream was to open a retail departmental store in India that would make the industry sit up and take notice.

Dressing Indian men as the British would
India has its own style, a style very distinct from other places," he says in his clipped British tones. This is Mr Sean Chiles, a renowned men's designer from the UK, who will be group design director for the Grasim Studio that will start operating from the first week of November.