Cover Story : January 2008

Your money, their money
Money, Money, Money, it's so funny… it's a rich man's world! So sang the Swedish pop group, Abba, many years ago. Abba sang the song when the Berlin wall was intact. And State-sponsored socialism as practised by the Soviet Union was creating a robust chimera for the poor and needy all over the world, that yes, a society can be created where money did not matter all that much

It’s a Rich man’s world
Can a compassionate form of capitalism take root in a milieu of pervasive disparities in income and wealth?
N Chandra Mohan Delhi

The imperfect science of getting rich
It's not impossible to enter the gates of prosperity if one wills it. Revisiting a bestseller by Wallace D Wattles on how to make money
Hardnews Special Delhi

Laid back and rich
Still cushioned in old-fashioned business, the Marwari community in West Bengal is gradually coming of age
Rajat Roy Kolkata

The Original Gujarat
The history of Gujarat stretches much beyond and much before Modi, and it was not always based on Muslim-bashing and hard Hindutva
Khalid Akhter Delhi