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...photographer was looking for someone to bridge Indian tradition and technology. So Thiagarajah, who is trained in classical Indian dance, came dressed wearing a classical dance outfit and jewelry. She was photographed with a number of modern gadgets: headsets, cell phones, PDAs. It was her first time modeling and she enjoyed striking poses under the lights, although she was doubtful that the photographs would ever be used. "At the time I was doing the photo shoot, I was thinking, 'No one is going to pick up these pictures' this is completely random,'" she says...
...began calling to congratulate her and her husband, Ramanan Thiagarajah. "We totally thought they were joking," she says. Since then, she has been inundated with calls from around the world. As it turns out, Thiagarajah is an appropriate model for the story on the globalization of India: she's Indian but grew up in Nigeria and is married to a Sri Lankan, with whom she lives in California...
...modeling career any further, but is enjoying the spotlight while it lasts. She says that one of the nicest pieces of feedback she received was from a friend who said "the magazine made a good choice in picking me because I represented the best of a progressive global Indian woman...
...diamonds to counterbalance a wave of smuggled stones coming in from the Angolan civil war. The agreed price per carat also dropped from $12 to around $9 in the first year of the partnership. By 1996 the Australians had had enough. Argyle would try to sell directly to Indian manufacturers through a Bombay office. The cartel tried a power play: it dumped $400 million of cheap rough into India to undercut the price of Argyle's diamonds...
...After nine years of consolidation and streamlining, Tata signaled a new prominence for the emerging Asia conglomerate in 2000 when the most Indian of brands bought one of the most English, Tetley Tea. At $435 million, the deal was the biggest in Indian history, and it presaged a wave of international expansion by Indian and Chinese businesses like Mittal Steel and Lenovo. For Tata, entering the West was not an end in itself. Buying Tetley was simply a way to grow Tata Tea. "We look for the acquisition of companies that fill a product gap or have a strategic connection...