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...oversee 97 employees, 26 in the U.S. and 71 in India, at a large financial company. My offshore employees are superb, but doing a story on U.S. jobs without looking at outsourcing--a huge challenge to the job market--does a disservice to your readers...
...picture was different in the 70s, when every young man's dream was to fly across the roads with his sweetheart on a Bajaj scooter. In north India, marriages meant a Bajaj scooter as dowry, Bajaj has said. Tejinder Singh, a retired brigadier in the Indian army, remembers his first Bajaj scooter that he bought with a loan of $70 in 1973. In those days of bicycles, a scooter felt like a royal luxury. "Riding in the night, with my wife at the back, her hands gently holding me was the most romantic feeling," he says...
...chocolate-colored exterior is faded and, without a leather cover, the steering is scorching hot in the sun. The Maruti 800 - India's original people's car before the Nano came along - looks dated. The modest hatchback, and the Bajaj Chetak, India's answer to the Vespa, captured the imagination of the Indian middle class in the 70s and 80s and kept them buying for decades. But the small car and the scooter, long ubiquitous on roads throughout India, are no longer the toast of India's aspiring middle class. Over the last month, both companies have announced that they...
...announcement, though sudden, was not surprising. With the staid middle-aged consumers of India's middle class giving way to urbanites and youngsters with a lot of disposable cash, not much hope was left for these two modest modes of transport. A Maruti-Suzuki spokesperson says the company made a conscious decision to phase out the car as the definition of "people" - in order words, India' vast middle classes - has transformed in the last two decades. In January 2010 sales of the M800 were down 55% over the same period the previous year as Indians opt for cars with features...
...will end in India when shiny new Chetaks and the Maruti 800 disappear from India's streets - an era that marked the emergence of a modern India struggling to align its traditional values with modern aspirations. As Singh put it: "It was good while it lasted, but now its time to move...