Monday, February 22, 2010

With one eye firmly on the past, new chapter begins for East India Company

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/retailing/article7018409.ece
(via Times Online)
Starting a multimillion-pound company brings its own risks, but when you are an Indian businessman reawakening a 400-year-old company linked inextricably to Britain’s colonial rule of your homeland, you are advised to tread carefully.

2 comments:

  1. I can't make up my mind whether his balls are made of steel or bravado. It's a personal thing as he said.

    Or maybe all the former colonies should try to possess a slice of their former imperial overlords? :P

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  2. I really wonder if he had studied the history of the company carefully....

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