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Apr 09, 2006 : Sharath Babu IIM-A

Sharath Babu has just graduated from the prestigious IIM at Ahmedabad. This year, as employers offered upto $185,000 per year as salaries, it is Babu, declining all offers, who made the news.
His mother Deepa Ramani, raised her three children single-handed, on the Rs 30 that she earned as a cook in a nearby school. Sharath helped out by selling idlis in the streets, even as he pursued his studies that eventually took him to IIM-A.
What are his plans? He wants to run a catering business along modern management lines and employ 50,000 people in ten years.
Significantly, as Babu made the announcement, his mother shared the dais with an admiring N R Narayanamurthy of Infosys.

Apr 04, 2006 : Special trains for mangoes

If it's summer, it's holidays and mangoes.

South Central Railways has today announced 'Mango Special Trains ' to transport the fruit from Vijayawada to Delhi. The ad. invites "The interested individual/ farmers/ growers/ merchants / traders/ hundakers / associations" to register their requirement of space in the special trains. Detailed commercial terms are included in governmentese.

By the way, who are hundakers? But who cares, as long as the mangoes get to Indians' eager tables

Apr 04, 2006 : Zodiac garden in Madurai

Many papers have today reported the beginning of a Zodiac Garden in land belonging to the Sri Meenakshi Sundareswarar temple in Madurai.

The idea is that for a one time payment of Rs.501, a species of tree prescribed by Vriksha Shastra as being suited to your zodiacal sign, will be planted and maintained on temple land. Devotees who have paid for trees are permitted to perform special pujas in front of them on their birthdays.

In the first phase, five acres have been set aside and 690 people have joined the programme. The temple owns 164 acres of land that will be brought under this scheme depending on people's enthusiasm.

Clearly, religion has great potential for being used creatively to benefit the environment.

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