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There has rarely been a more versatile journalist than S Viswanathan of Industrial Economist (IE). Since the inception of the magazine in 1968, he...

It was August 2005. I visited Davis, CA and was guest of Chithra and Dr Lux Lakshmanan of California Agriculture Consulting Services. Over the...

June 1968. It was a couple of months after the launch of the economic fortnightly, Industrial Economist. We carried a short note on Madras...

In the 1960s T S Narayanaswamy and K S Narayanan conceived the setting up Chemicals and Plastics India Ltd which later evolved into Chemplast...

HIS NET WORTH WAS HIS NETWORK HAILING FROM A village near Pudukottai, Bala obtained his post-graduate degree in Statistics/Mathematics from Annamalai University, served as a...

Under R Krishnamurthy (RK) as editor, the leading Tamil daily Dinamalar recorded many-sided expansion. Particularly remarkable was his popularising reformed Tamil fonts that substantially aided typesetting and became the standard. He also researched and transformed the Tamil computer typing system.

Tribute G V Ramakrishna - The versatile civil servant “Liberalisation without regulation is dangerous.”- GVR In services spread over five decades G V Ramakrishna (GVR) handled a...

A Consummate Corporate Manager For over 60 years V Narayanan (VN) contributed richly to the evolution of Indian management. Soon after graduation in 1959, he...