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Tuesday, February 05, 2008

Cold War deja vu!

One wonders, why did the world undergo the trial & tribulations associated with the Cold War nuclear politics? The question gains added salience especially when one sees the West & Russia walking the beaten tracks

& once again entering into a dangerous missile race.

The recent withdrawal of Russia from its obligations under the conventional forces in Europe (CFE) treaty certainly doesn’t portend well, either for global peace or for the continent (Europe), which has presumably bid good bye to war as an instrument of state policy. The treaty came into being in 1992 (the collapse of Communism saw a revised treaty, CFE II enacted in 1999) as a confidence building measure between NATO & former Warsaw pact nations to reduce the deployment of conventional forces between the Atlantic Ocean and the Urals.

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Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Atruism in human as well as world affairs is that if you threaten people, they will defend themselves

Last October, North Korea conducted a nuclear test in the mountains near the Chinese border, apparently a dud, yet with

enough firepower to inch the world a bit farther toward nuclear Armageddon. Last July, North Korea resumed long-range missile testing – also a fizzle, yet with the ominous signals. Leon Sigal, one of the foremost experts, sets the context as, “When President Bush took office, the North had stopped testing longer-range missiles. It had one or two bombs’ worth of plutonium and was verifiably not making more. Six years later, it has eight to 10 bombs’ worth, has resumed longer-range missile tests, and feels little restraint about nuclear testing.” Reviewing the record, An example for cooperation was set more than a decade ago. Haltingly and unevenly, the Clinton administration began a process to normalize the US political and economic relations with North Korea and guarantee its security as a non-nuclear state. In the year 1994, North Korea agreed not to enrich uranium.

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Wednesday, May 09, 2007

Another trailblazer...

O wing to a dismal show by Indian automobile companies in March, analysts are busy watering down yearly sales expectations. Rising

car prices & mounting interest rates have forced customers to postpone purchases, leading to a meager 2.89% sales growth in March 2007 – the worst performance in 13 months.

There remains one segment in resurgence – the fiercely fought mid-size (A3) segment (increase in sales by 48.05% over February 2007). And to further liven it up, Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) has launched its mid-size warrior, Logan, in partnership with Renault. Anand Mahindra, VC & MD, M&M Ltd., said, “The Logan is a milestone for us as it marks our entry into the most competitive segment of the market.” Logan’s Gl 1.4 petrol model starts at Rs.427,950 while the DLE 1.5dci diesel version is priced at Rs.547,064, making it the cheapest car in A3 after Tata Indigo and Maruti Esteem, hence targeting the B/B+ segment as well. Auto analyst Murad Ali Baig states to B&E, “It’s the price that makes it (Logan) extraordinary.”

According to SIAM, Honda has attained leadership in the A3 segment selling 5,164 units for March 2007, followed by Ford Motors (5,139 units) & Tata Motors (4,368 units). It would not be a cakewalk for Logan in a segment that offers almost everything from Honda’s elegance to Ford’s resilience, but it’s entry has intensified competition in the A3 segment.

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Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Exclusivity’s curse!

What do Royal Dutch Shell

(MCap of $118.8 billion), Unilever ($39.4 billion), KLM ($12.3 billion) & Logica CMG ($5.31 billion) share in common (besides being heavyweights in their respective sectors)? Well, they belong(ed) to the Anglo-Dutch mixed race! And while strategists have debated over the solidarity of such entities, UK’s Barclays bank’s merger with Dutch-ABN Amro gives them another chance to analyse them in the present too! Barclays found the Dutch (ABN Amro) willing to join hands for a gigantic $174.71 billion entity! So, will this merger be a rare success? Or will it prove what Booz Allen Hamilton comprehensively stated (in its report – ‘Merger Integration: Delivering On the Promise’) that “despite many promises based on solid synergistic potential... most mergers fail”?

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Saturday, March 17, 2007

Naina ‘L’ Kidwai: An ‘L’ for laurels

Being the daughter of a CEO of an insurance company, Kidwai had the genes of an achiever that showed from a very early stage.

As a natural leader, her traits were on the fore with her being the school captain and then the President of the college students’ union, before she went on to lead iconic corporations. After graduating in economics from Delhi University, Kidwai completed the Chartered Accountancy course and joined Price Waterhouse & Co. (as it was called then) as a trainee; after which, she earned the prestigious Harvard degree and returned to India to join ANZ Grindlays (now Standard Chartered) and the then JM Morgan Stanley. By the time Kidwai joined the HSBC group in 1997, she had obtained investment banking credentials second to none.

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