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    It requires passion and I don’t have that. Like my friend Cheeni (Mr N. Srinivasan, Vice-Chairman and Managing Director, India Cements and owner of Chennai Super Kings) is an ideal cricket owner. The amount of time he spends on sports and promoting it, that’s what gives the buzz. Full Article at Hindu Business Line
    It requires passion and I don’t have that. Like my friend Cheeni (Mr N. Srinivasan, Vice-Chairman and Managing Director, India Cements and owner of Chennai Super Kings) is an ideal cricket owner. The amount of time he spends on sports and promoting it, that’s what gives the buzz.
    SOURCE: Hindu Business Line 1 month ago
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  1. Where did your entire IT talent come from? Ultimately, the upper castes also realised that being an AG’s office clerk is not the greatest thing in life… being a vice-president in Silicon Valley is better
    SOURCE: Hindu Business Line 1 month ago
  2. Even if we had caught one of the two waves — pharma or infotech — it would have made a huge difference to this group.
    SOURCE: Hindu Business Line 1 month ago
  3. The coffee shop is always crowded and I eat good south Indian food at home
    SOURCE: Hindu Business Line 1 month ago
  4. Its been kind of two nights in one town on an average for months now…. Feels like normal now
    SOURCE: Hindu Business Line 1 month ago
  5. Pharma is, I think, not so obvious a link because it is again about domain knowledge, where we have no knowledge. But in infotech there is no reason why TVS couldn’t have started a 10,000-15,000 employee business.
    SOURCE: Hindu Business Line 1 month ago
  6. The pressures have been released and opportunities have been given.
    SOURCE: Hindu Business Line 1 month ago
  7. The infotech wave is in many ways exactly like what TVS does — highly ethical businesses, organised people, engineers, manpower right at the doorstep… I think TVS did miss that bus. Today, even if not a $4-5 billion business, we should have had at least a $1-billion business in the knowledge sector
    SOURCE: Hindu Business Line 1 month ago
  8. The Tirupur, Erode, Coimbatore culture is entrepreneurial…non-Chennai culture is more bubbling and entrepreneurial. This (Chennai) is not Tamil Nadu culture.
    SOURCE: Hindu Business Line 1 month ago
  9. There has to be contributory negligence from both sides… sometimes management may be inflaming the situation and other times, the social, political and labour part may be doing so.
    SOURCE: Hindu Business Line 1 month ago

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