With most newspapers in India controlled by large business groups, a code of silence used to prevent any publication from openly taking a swipe at the editorial policy or business practices of another. So even if the leader failed to guard the reader or misled her with paid content, the media limited itself to an academic debate on the issue. With competition for the advertising buck getting...

Following the launch of Nano, the acquisition of Corus Steel and the brands Jaguar and Land Rover, almost everything that the Tata group does, or looks at, makes global news. Last week, when the news agency Press Trust of India (PTI) reported that the Tata group was in talks with Embraer, the Brazilian aircraft manufacturer, the news reverberated across the world and was posted on thousands of...

If you didn’t know much about James Beeland Rogers, this book would seem the height of hyperbole about China. According to Rogers, just as the 19th century belonged to England and the 20th century belonged to America, the 21st century “will be China’s turn to set the agenda and rule the roost” Rogers says that “the very best advice of any kind that I can give you is to teach your children or...